2024 Enjoy Staffordshire Tourism Awards
Bronze - Best Small Visitor Attraction of the Year
"The crème-de-la-crème of Staffordshire tourism and hospitality have been crowned at this year’s Enjoy Staffordshire Tourism and Good Food Awards.
Businesses from across the county gathered at Aspects at National Memorial Arboretum, near Lichfield, for the 10th anniversary glittering black-tie event, sponsored by Staffordshire University and hosted by BBC Midlands Today’s Rebecca Wood. An audience of more than 300 guests saw the winners of 20 categories announced.
2022 Staffordshire Tourism and Good Food Awards
Gladstone Pottery Museum - winners - Three awards
Enjoy Staffordshire Awards, March 2022
Bronze - Best Small Visitor Attraction
Bronze - Accessible and Inclusive Tourism
Highly Commended for Ethical, Responsible and Sustainable Tourism
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| Gladstone Pottery Museum - winners - Three awards Enjoy Staffordshire Awards, March 2022 |
2021 Collections Trust Award
Gladstone Pottery Museum - Highly Commended
Documentation and Digitisation Project
The Collections Trust Award celebrates recent collections-based work achieved in difficult circumstances, highlighting the often-unsung achievements of those who manage the collections that lie at the heart of all museums.
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| All of us at Gladstone are incredibly proud of Kerry, Alison and Gabriele and what they have achieved, gaining national recognition for their project which will have far reaching implications to improve the museum experience for all. |
2020 VISIT ENGLAND - AWARDS for EXCELLENCE
Gladstone Pottery Museum - Winner - The Best in England - GOLD
It's official! Gladstone is the BEST 'Small Visitor Attraction' in the Visit England Awards for Excellence. National recognition after winning GOLD. The best in England (17 August 2020)
2019 Staffordshire Tourism and Good Food Awards
Gladstone Pottery Museum won FOUR awardsGOLD - Best Small Visitor Attraction
SILVER - Experience of the Year for the Raku Workshops
BRONZE - Responsible and Sustainable Tourism
HIGHLY COMMENDED - Accessible and Inclusive Tourism
2019 West Midlands Volunteer Awards
Gladstone Pottery Museum - FinalistsThe volunteers of Gladstone Pottery Museum attended the awards ceremony in September at the Birmingham Hippodrome. Finalists, in the Group category.
2019 Staffordshire Chambers Business Awards
Gladstone Pottery MuseumWINNER Staffordshire Chambers 2019 Business Awards Retail, Leisure, Culture and Tourism category. Sponsored by Tile Mountain.
Recognising excellence in a consumer facing cultural, tourism and leisure business within Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire. The entry related to business activity in the City and Staffordshire including business performance, staff development, community involvement, sales and marketing, and future plans.
Gladstone Pottery Museum commented "Museums are not normally seen as examples of good business practice so this is a huge achievement for our team and we're extremely proud of it. Every member of our team works really hard to do their best and this is something we can all celebrate." 4th July 2019
2018 Enjoy Staffordshire Tourism Awards
Gladstone Pottery Museum won TWO awards
SILVER - Best Small Visitor Attraction
SILVER - Inclusive Tourism
WINNER Team Awesome Staff
Winner - Certificate of Excellence
Winner - Hall of Fame
GOLD - Best Small Visitor Attraction
GOLD - Inclusive Tourism
SILVER - Guided Tour of the Year
City of Stoke-on-Trent Press Release "Gladstone is golden at county tourism awards" here>
SILVER - Best Small Visitor Attraction
SILVER - Inclusive Tourism
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| Angela Lee - Gladstone Pottery Museum Manager and Nerys Williams - Gladstone Pottery Museum Audience Development Manager receive the awards from Enjoy Staffordshire Tourism on 22 November 2018 |
2018 Stoke-on-Trent City Council Staff Awards
Gladstone Pottery MuseumWINNER Team Awesome Staff
2018 Trip Advisor Awards
Gladstone Pottery MuseumWinner - Certificate of Excellence
2018 Trip Advisor Awards
Gladstone Pottery MuseumWinner - Hall of Fame
2017 Enjoy Staffordshire Tourism Awards
Gladstone Pottery Museum won three awardsGOLD - Best Small Visitor Attraction
GOLD - Inclusive Tourism
SILVER - Guided Tour of the Year
2017 Staffordshire Chambers of Commerce Awards
Gladstone Pottery Museum
FINALIST and HIGHLY COMMENDED
FINALIST and HIGHLY COMMENDED
Retail, Leisure, Culture and Tourism Awards
2017 Six Towns Radio Awards
Gladstone Pottery Museum
Heritage Award - 15th February 2017 at the Mitchel Arts Centre, Hanley. Winners of the awards were voted for by the listeners of 6TR, Six Towns Radio.
Heritage Award - 15th February 2017 at the Mitchel Arts Centre, Hanley. Winners of the awards were voted for by the listeners of 6TR, Six Towns Radio.
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| Gladstone Pottery Museum Story - 2017 6TR Heritage Award |
2017 Trip Advisor Awards
Gladstone Pottery MuseumWinner - Certificate of Excellence
2016 Enjoy Staffordshire Tourism Awards
Gladstone Pottery Museum won three awards
SILVER - Best Small Visitor Attraction
SILVER - Inclusive Tourism
HIGHLY COMMENDED - Sustainable Tourism
SILVER - Inclusive Tourism
HIGHLY COMMENDED - Sustainable Tourism
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| Celebrations as staff and volunteers celebrate another hat trick in Enjoy Staffordshire Tourism Awards 2016 |
2016 Staffordshire Business Awards
Gladstone Pottery MuseumCommended - Retail, Leisure and Tourism category
2016 Trip Advisor Awards
Gladstone Pottery Museum
Winner - Certificate of Excellence
Winner - Certificate of Excellence
2015 Enjoy Staffordshire Tourism Awards
One Big Day - Three Big AwardsGladstone Pottery Museum won three awards
SILVER - Best Small Visitor Attraction
SILVER - Access for AllBEST TOURISM EVENT of the YEAR - 'Forty-fied' which celebrated 40 years of the museum
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| Angela Lee (Museum Manager) and Nerys Williams (Audience Development Manager) receive the three major tourism awards. 16 Nov 2015 |
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| Staff at Gladstone Pottery Museum celebrate their hat trick of tourism awards from 'Enjoy Staffordshire' |
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| Engineering Volunteers have fun after hearing that the Gladstone Pottery Museum had one three tourism awards in one day! |
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| Gladstone Pottery Museum - 3 tourism awards! |
2015 Trip Advisor Awards
Gladstone Pottery MuseumWinner - Certificate of Excellence
2015 Visit England Awards for Excellence
Gladstone Pottery MuseumWINNER - The museum has been officially named one of the best places to visit in England. The Museum picked up a bronze award for ‘Small Visitor Attraction of the Year’ in the 2015 Visit England Awards for Excellence. At an awards ceremony in Gateshead on 11 May 2015 Angela Lee (Museum Manager) and Nerys Williams (Audience Development Manager) received the Bronze Award. The Visit England Awards for Excellence are the most prestigious awards in English tourism.
THREE YEARS = THREE AWARDS Gladstone Pottery Museum picked up the gold award for ‘Small Visitor Attraction of the Year’ in 2013 and again a year later in 2014, in the Enjoy Staffordshire Tourism Awards. So now its official and Gladstone Pottery Museum is one of the top three small visitor attractions in England. Still winning awards after 40 years!
2015 The Visit England Awards for Excellence
Gladstone Pottery MuseumFinalist - Many congratulations go to Gladstone Pottery Museum who have been announced as finalists in the shortlist for this year’s VisitEngland Awards for Excellence, Small Visitor Attraction of the Year.
2015 Awards Ceremony – 11th May, Sage GatesheadThe Awards Ceremony is the climax of the whole VisitEngland Awards for Excellence competition. By making it to the Ceremony all finalists will have demonstrated that they are the very best of English Tourism. The Ceremony celebrates success and excellence and is a showcase for England's fabulous tourism products. Above all it provides finalists with a moment of well-deserved glory which can be used to market, promote and improve their businesses still further.
2014 Enjoy Staffordshire Tourism Awards
Gladstone Pottery Museum
GOLD for ‘Small Visitor Attraction of the Year’
Winners are announced for the Enjoy Staffordshire Tourism Awards. Destination Staffordshire and the Staffordshire tourism industry have celebrated the best in business this year with stand-out winners including Denstone Hall Farm Shop and Café, Colton House, Drayton Manor Theme Park and The Lewis Partnership, and Gladstone Pottery Museum. Announced at a wartime-themed ceremony at the National Memorial Arboretum on Monday 17th November 2014, the awards celebrated best in businesses across Staffordshire.
GOLD for ‘Small Visitor Attraction of the Year’
Winners are announced for the Enjoy Staffordshire Tourism Awards. Destination Staffordshire and the Staffordshire tourism industry have celebrated the best in business this year with stand-out winners including Denstone Hall Farm Shop and Café, Colton House, Drayton Manor Theme Park and The Lewis Partnership, and Gladstone Pottery Museum. Announced at a wartime-themed ceremony at the National Memorial Arboretum on Monday 17th November 2014, the awards celebrated best in businesses across Staffordshire.
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| Gladstone Pottery Museum wins 2014 Visitor Attraction of the Year |
2013 Sandford Award
Gladstone Pottery MuseumHeritage Education Trust and Bishop Grosseteste University Lincoln
For outstanding contribution to heritage education and learning within the historic environment. Gladstone has been given a prestigious Sandford Award for excellence in it's education provision. The independently judged award provides a quality assurance kite mark for education at heritage sites, museums, archives and collections and is nationally recognised. This is fantastic news for the Museums Education team and all of the guides, visitor services, workshop staff and everyone else on site who make school and group visits so special. To find out more about the Education team and download their brochure click here http://www.stokemuseums.org.uk/education/
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| Sandford Award - Heritage Ediuctaion Trust and Bishop Grosseteste University Lincoln 2013 photo: Phil Rowley |
2013 Enjoy Staffordshire Tourism Awards
WINNER - Small Visitor Attraction of the Year
Destination Staffordshire and the Staffordshire tourism industry have celebrated the best in business this year with stand-out winners and Gladstone Pottery Museum picked up the gold award for small visitor attraction. Excellent news! This was at the Enjoy Staffordshire Tourism Awards and our category was a public vote. A massive thank you to everyone who voted for us - this means a huge amount to all of the staff at Gladstone.
2006 Smoke Free Staffordshire Platinum Award
Gladstone Pottery MuseumPlatinum Winner
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| Smoke Free Staffordshire Platinum Award 2006 photo: Phil Rowley |
2006 Sandford Award - Heritage Education Trust
Gladstone Pottery MuseumFor outstanding contribution to heritage education and learning within the historic environment
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| Sandford Award - Heritage Education Trust 2006 photo: Phil Rowley |
1982 The Sir Mark Henig Award
Gladstone Pottery MuseumSir Mark Henig Awards for Tourism Enterprise
1978 The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and The Times Conservation Award
Gladstone Pottery MuseumThis award showcases outstanding work in conservation of a single building or a group of buildings or structures and covers renovation or conservation to a new or original use. Judges look for projects that take all aspects of conservation into consideration including the impact to the environment, use of traditional material/techniques, research that was undertaken into the background of the project, impact on the community, re-using original material and implementing plans which will ensure the survival of the historic building or structure into the future.
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| The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and The Times Conservation Award 1978 photo: Phil Rowley |
1976 Museum of the Year Award
Gladstone Pottery MuseumThe highly-prestigious Illustrated London News Museum of the Year Award
Presented to a museum or gallery, large or small, anywhere in the UK, whose entry, in the opinion of the judges, best demonstrates a track record of imagination, innovation and excellence through work mainly undertaken during the previous calendar year.
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| Illustrated London News Museum of the Year Award 1976 photo: Phil Rowley |
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| Gladstone - Museum of the Year 1976 Illustrated London News article |
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| Gladstone - Museum of the Year 1976 The Time News article |
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| Gladstone - Museum of the Year 1976 T-shirt |
1975 The British Tourist Authority Come to Britain Trophy
Gladstone Pottery MuseumOutstanding Tourist Enterprise
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| British Tourist Authority Come to Britain Trophy 1975 Photo: Phil Rowley |
1975 European Architectural Heritage Year
Gladstone Pottery MuseumMajor Commendation - The Business and Industry Award for Conservation
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| The Business and Industry Award for Conservation 1975 photo: Phil Rowley |
Gladstone Pottery Museum Certification
