The Knot & Port Vale: Bringing Good News to Stoke-on-Trent
Read on to find all the details about this exciting collaboration...
We’re delighted to announce a new partnership between The Knot and Port Vale Football Club.
The Knot is on a mission to bring good news to Stoke-on-Trent & Staffordshire. We believe that if we can highlight all the good happening in our region, then we can change this place for the better. Each week, we share Good News, What’s On and Things to Do with our readers directly to their email. Easy to read, no clickbait, no misleading headlines and no pop-up ads. Sign up with your email and join 2,800+ others who want to change the narrative on the place we call home.
Port Vale share our purpose and are aligned with our mission in this region. We have shared roots and a belief in the power of community and bringing people together. We’re both on a mission to tell better stories about Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire. We celebrate the people who care about this place and together, alongside The Vale we believe we can do more of this.
We’ve always found The Vale’s commitment to community inspiring and if The Knot can come anywhere close to emulating the impact they’ve had in recent years - we’ll be very pleased.
For generations, the club has been a beating heart of Burslem, not just on the pitch, but off it too. Whether it’s tackling food poverty through the Foundation, giving young people a place to belong, or bringing fans together from all walks of life, Vale shows what football clubs should really be about: anchors in their community, a place to feel proud of where you’re from.
In April, Port Vale won the EFL Community Project of the year for their Baby Bank Programme at the Bescura Family Hubb. This is just one example of the work that the club do in the community and one example of a good news story that we want to amplify with our readers and people across our region.
We both believe in Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire. We both believe our region deserves better — better coverage, better investment, better chances and of course, better results.
So what does this actually mean?
From now on, The Knot will be keeping our readers updated with relevant Port Vale news, stories and features. That means when there is news from Port Vale, we’ll be sharing it. We won’t be covering the stuff on the pitch, latest signings for example or commentary on performances, but anything off the pitch that’s relevant to our readers - we’ll share it.
It also means that our good news, events, things to do and features will be available to Port Vale fans. Vale fans will get access to The Knot through official club channels, with news and events from across Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire made more visible to a wider audience who care deeply about the future of this city. The Knot will be embedded on the Port Vale website and in the club app, giving fans easy access to find out good news and things to do in Stoke-on-Trent and surrounding areas.
In short, Vale fans will get more from us. And our readers will get more from Vale.
It’s a partnership that we hope will grow, we’d love to be covering sport one day. Who knows maybe one day you’ll see The Knot on the pitch-side or in a special edition match day programme? Maybe together we can bring local journalism back to the heart of this community.
We’re excited to tell new stories, meet more Port Vale fans who align to our mission here in Stoke-on-Trent and shine a bigger spotlight on everything that’s going right in this city.
Up the Vale. Up the Knot.
Sounds wonderful. There is plenty to celebrate locally so good to see an emphasis on the positives rather than simply echoing the doom mongers.