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.
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Recent projects
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 […]
Location: Land off Boothen Road, Stoke-upon-Trent, ST4 4AH W3W: united.clocks.vine Opening: currently for events as planned, see events. Parking: Brilliant Bamboo Brownfield Parklet stories so far: Background: In October 2024, Brilliant Bamboo was awarded funding to develop two projects as part of the Stoke High Street Accelerator Greenspace Project through Stoke-on-Trent City Council and funds […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
In late 2023, we were pleased to be able to work with LadyBird Su or artist Su Hurrell who supported us to investigate a site in a village, Fulford, at the edge of the city towards Stone. Although the project did not come to be, we have the lovely image by Su, and the commission […]
Recent posts / news
Meeting our neighbours, and sharing ideas at BB Brownfield Parklet
Our plans for the Brilliant Bamboo Brownfield Parklet have always included you, our neighbours, residents and communities on our doorstep and who might want to
Booming Brilliant live with Rebecca Reubens (Rhizome, India)
Date: Tuesday 25 November 2025 Time: 6pm – 7.30pm (with networking at the end). Location: Keele in Town, 53 Ironmarket, Newcastle-under-Lyme, ST5 1PE. Tickets: General
Case study: Together Active team building day at Brilliant Bamboo parklet
By Hannah Moloney, Together Active In August, our whole team – 12 members of staff from across the organisation right up to senior leadership –
Press Release: Businesses invited to explore bamboo’s potential at UK summit in Stoke-on-Trent
A major national summit exploring how bamboo could transform industries from construction to textiles will be held in Stoke-on-Trent this October. The fifth UK Bamboo
Wonderful Wormery: Wormery and Artwork
On Saturday 6 September, we built our wormery with Emma and Sam from WormWise, and the people came along to help. Here is a gallery
Volunteer with Brilliant Bamboo
We’re developing a range of projects, and if you’d like to help in someway and volunteer your time, skills and experience we’d like to hear