twestival local - Tweet.Meet.Give. - March 24, 2011

Stoke Twestival is a chance to get together with other people using Twitter from across North Staffordshire and raise money alongside thousands of other people from around the world all gathering in support of different causes on the same day.

We'll be in Hanley Library from 2pm and Fat Cats in the evening of Thursday 24th and there will be plenty of ways to get involved virtually as well.

Twestival is stitched lovingly together from the tiniest fragments of people's time and every contribution makes a difference. You can help us by buying a ticket for just £5 and by bringing or tweeting your ideas in the run-up and on the day.  

All the money we will raise will go directly to Stoke Youth Musical Theatre to support their work developing the talents of young people and inspiring more to make their voices heard.   

Find out more: 

• The programme
• The raffle
• Our cause
• Our supporters

With only a week to go to the Stoke Twestival, it's time to launch our raffle!

We're grateful to all our lovely supporters for donating these fantastic prizes - if you can add something to our list please leave a comment or tweet us. 

To enter the raffle, all you need to do is buy a ticket for only £5. Everything we raise will support young people in our city, so please give generously!  

• Stoke Music Youth Theatre two pairs of tickets to see Spring Awakening on Friday 25th, Saturday 26th (matinee and evening)
• Brown and Greens Hamper
• Trentham Gardens family pass
• Barewall framed limited edition poster, framed and mounted: The Beautiful Game - signed by Paine Proffitt
• A Stoke T-Shirts Local dialect T-shirt

• Jo Clews photography: From Jo Clews photography we have two large famed works of art which have been exhibited in the Brampton Art Gallery.
  Both are original one off works by the former art student form Newcastle-under-Lyme college local artist Joe Clews.
  
  
• Portmeirion Pottery: From Portmeirion Pottery we have a matching ceramic bowl and large jug from the Portmeirion Pottery Scarborough range and a one cup combi teapot and saucer from the crazy daisy range of ceramic ware.

Thanks to @stoketownsrunner (Phil) for sorting out most of these wonderful prizes and helping save the raffle from the annual mess by @clarewhite!)

 Twestival wouldn't be possible without the help of volunteers and lots of organisations. 

If you've helped and are not on this list yet (our memories only last for 140 characters), please add yourselves on our editable document: 

Our thanks to:

 You can help us to develop this programme here.

 Things have moved really quickly this week and we're excited that so many people are getting involved. 

First of all, we had a strong fight to the finish line to nominate our charity. The Douglas MacMillan hospice and Donna Louise Trust had high numbers of votes, but in the end it was the Stoke Youth Theatre who won with nearly 300 votes altogether. 

We're very grateful to all the charities that got involved and hope that they will continue to be involved in the Twestival. Next time it could be you! 

We've also got some great ideas emerging for the day, with a rough programme now sketched out. I'll put this on a separate post.

We still need your help! 

Especially: