A WEEK long festival celebrating Stroud’s engineering and manufacturing prowess will be staged in venues across the Five Valleys later this month.
Organised by Stroud MP Neil Carmichael, the Festival of Manufacturing and Engineering will include tours of the region’s top businesses, exhibitions focusing on its rich engineering heritage and a series of networking receptions and presentations.
The festival will be officially opened by Neil and Mark Prisk MP, minister of state for business and enterprise, at Wycliffe School in Stonehouse on Monday, April 23.
Events throughout the week will include a seminar on women in engineering at Stroud High School on Tuesday, April 24, an energy and renewables day at Stonehouse Court Hotel on Wednesday, April 25 and open tours of thriving engineering firms Renishaw and Delphi on Saturday, April 28.
Other highlights will include an engineering and manufacturing trail at Stroud’s Museum in the Park, which will be open from Sunday, April 22, a seminar on careers in the manufacturing sector at Stroud College on Friday, April 27 and live demonstrations of weaving machinery at Stroudwater Textile Trust’s historic Gigg Mill on Saturday, April 28.
"I have three key reasons for staging the festival," said Neil.
"Firstly, to enhance awareness of all that happens in the Valleys and Vale, secondly to showcase our area as a great place to invest in and, thirdly, to signal to young people the excellent career prospects available in the sector on their door step.
ORIGINAL ARTICLE COURTESY OF STROUD NEWS AND JOURNAL
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