

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Shaping the Future of Community Lounges
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 18 Mar, 2026 at 10:00 am – Wed, 18 Mar, 2026 at 12:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Are you a Welcoming Space, Community Lounge, or other hyper-local organisation?

Following our initial consultation session in September 2025, we are excited to invite you to join VAST and Stoke-on-Trent City Council in exploring and shaping the future of community lounges. As a valued member of the city’s network of community lounges and/or Welcoming Spaces, your insights and contributions are crucial to developing a model that overcomes current capacity constraints and allows a wider range of venues to participate.
 
Together, we can explore possibilities and create a more inclusive and expansive Community Lounge model - to ensure that communities across the city have equal access to direct support and services, to strengthen existing networks and relationships, and to build a sustainable, inclusive Community Lounges model.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/stoke-on-trent/shaping-the-future-of-community-lounges/200029761454548
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 1

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/vast/shaping-the-future-of-community-lounges/e-jzjlke?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=stoke+on+trent-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Stoke On Trent
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: The Dudson Centre, Hope Street, ST1 5DD Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom
- **lat**: 53.0294
- **long**: -2.17923
- **full address**: The Dudson Centre, Hope Street, ST1 5DD Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom, Stoke On Trent, United Kingdom

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: VAST (https://allevents.in/org/vast/13655674)

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- **Alt text**: thumbnail
  - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/124b284b1d0103da59295f105638624e42c8d06e027f740dd74ed4cf04923646-rimg-w300-h300-dc3c508b-gmir?v=1773182904

## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 18 Mar, 2026 at 10:00 am
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** The Dudson Centre, Hope Street, ST1 5DD Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom, Stoke On Trent, United Kingdom
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** VAST
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Shaping the Future of Community Lounges ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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