Brilliant Bamboo

Welcome to Brilliant Bamboo

A people and planet-friendly project for Stoke and Staffordshire.

Hello! We’re an organisation creating projects for people and planet using bamboo and other materials to create and imagine greener futures in Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire and the planet.

We are a Community Interest Company with a mission to marry the arts, communities and professionals from across the sectors in exploration and collaboration around growing, building, and creating from bamboo.

We’re here to develop environmentally positive projects that explore sustainable materials for people and the planet. We’re developing our organisation and projects all the time and we’ll be looking for you to be involved by coming along, taking part, volunteering, becoming a partner or collaborator, or as a funder.

You’re invited to have a look around to find out more about us and why bamboo, join our mailing list, follow us on socials, or contact us to be involved.

About us

BRILLIANT BAMBOO is an organisation exploring the potential of UK-grown bamboo ..........

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Story so far

In 2020, Gemma as part of her role as Appetite Director for the Arts Council England ..........

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Why bamboo

It is a grass that grows from a root and rhizome, There are 91 genera and 1500+ species ..........

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Partners & funders

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Support us

Our organisation is nothing without the community of supporters from individuals, organisations and corporate support from businesses.

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Recent projects

BAMBOO-ST in Newcastle-under-Lyme

BAMBOO-ST is our project with Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council from their UKSPF in 2025- 2026. The project is in two strands: As part of our Engage & Education work: Brilliant Bamboo at the Pop-Up Park: Brilliant Bamboo took over the Newcastle BID Pop-Up Park in Newcastle Town Centre for creative den-building for children and families on […]

UK Bamboo Summit 2025: Stoke-on-Trent

Date: Friday 10 October 2025 Location: The Vaults at Goods Yard, Glebe Street, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 1HG UK On Friday 10 October 2025, Brilliant Bamboo in collaboration with Orit Azaz, Creative Director of Imagine Bamboo hosted the UK Bamboo Summit 2025 in Stoke-on-Trent. The first event to be hosted in the historic Vaults at Goods Yard […]

Brilliant Bamboo Brownfield Parklet

Location: Land off Boothen Road, Stoke-upon-Trent, ST4 4AH. Getting here. W3W: united.clocks.vine Opening: currently for events as planned, see Events. The Brilliant Bamboo Brownfield Parklet is an acre site in the heart of Stoke Town / Stoke-upon-Trent in the city of Stoke-on-Trent. The site is a former pottery works: Trent & Crescent (1868-1957), where only […]

Brilliant Botanicals

Brilliant Botanicals is inspired by our passion for bamboo, our research that brings the connection to our local story of the pottery industry through their caneware and surface pattern designs from the late 1700’s onwards. For our first phase of this strand of our work, that has taken place in Stoke town between October 2024 […]

Discover Bamboo & Middleport with Middleport Matters.

From February to March 2025, Brilliant Bamboo worked with Middleport Matters and those in the Middleport area as part of the #DiscoverMiddleport project to co-create a new piece of bamboo sculpture and furniture with artist, Spencer Jenkins. Middleport residents were some of the first to work with Bamboo as part of Imagine Bamboo for North Staffordshire, […]

Booming Brilliant podcast

Booming Brilliant is Brilliant Bamboo’s emergent and DIY podcast. Created by our Director, Gemma, the podcast captures short conversations during conference-style events and longer chats with colleagues to learn more about what and how they have worked with bamboo and why. The podcast will continue to develop as a place for conversations, learning and championing […]