Just another quick nudge about the below in case anyone missed it.
It'll be surely be the usual crowd, plus hopefully some new faces who
might find ORG Stoke from
Hope to see you all there!
(and at least it's not the KPA during Summer like last year!)
Steven Maddox
Lantizia
On 31/07/2025 22:24, Steven Maddox wrote:
Hello!
This is just a quick message to tell you the friendly people over at
ORG Stoke are running a new annual social in August!
*Where?* China Gardens (the Toby Carvery pub in Festival Park)
*When?* Tuesday 12th August from 6pm onwards
The even is purposefully designed to welcome anyone from the local
area, including from other groups. So you don’t need to be a member to
come along.
Please see their official Meetup event here…
https://www.meetup.com/org-stoke-on-trent/events/310298752/
If you don’t fancy RSVP’ing on that page… just reply to this (or email
stoke(a)openrightsgroup.org) if you could please, to get an idea of
numbers of people coming.
Here is the summary from that page…
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Join us for our first annual Summer Open Rights Night!
This is a relaxed social gathering, both for ORG Stoke members
(including those of you who are just on the mailing list) and also for
anyone else from other local groups that have an interest in digital
rights, free speech, and privacy.
We'll be meeting at the China Gardens pub (the Tony Carvery) in
Festival Park, and hopefully it’ll be sunny so we can all sit outside
in the beer garden… that is right on the canal! I’ve read that this
pub recently had £600k spent on it, so hopefully it’ll be a great
venue that is fairly central to Stoke-on-Trent. It’s easy to get to by
both car, bus, and I guess barge too!
Officially we’re not providing any food or drinks at this event, but
you can get whatever you need from the bar… and if you’re a student or
something I’m sure we can donate a pint or two!
Mostly this will be a social with conversation occasionally (but it’s
not mandatory!) being related to current worries or ideas you have
about the ever changing digital rights landscape in the UK.
We’ll also be running a team-based, multiple-choice quiz! (possibly
some prizes too!) Perhaps some other games and activities as well… but
yeah we’ll have stuff to do reason to get to know each other.
Hope to see you there! Bring as many people along as you like!
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