by Simon Travers – POP Learning Champion, August 2023
This autumn, POP Collectives will be rocking a fresh look for a new season. We’ve seen great growth...
by Simon Travers, POP Learning Champion
While the Community Room at the Four Greens Centre in Whitleigh might seem a million miles from Strictly Come...
Last summer I went to an incredible conference https://www.jrf.org.uk/blog/new-frontiers-some-reflections which started to open my eyes to the structural...
These are some reflections from Matt, our CEO on the Belong in Plymouth programme. For more thoughts from the team, see here https://bipnetwork.groups.io/g/CoreTeam/topic/what_i_m_learning_about/94383085
When...
By Simon Travers, POP Learning Champion
The first two blogs on the POP ‘Mini System’ experiment told the story of how POP allocated a £40,000 grant by...
Simon Travers, POP Learning Champion
The first blog of this series on the POP ‘Mini Systems’ experiment told the story of how a £40,000 grant was awarded...
By Simon Travers, POP Learning Champion
In the past five years, part of POP’s vision for its role as a local place-based funder has been to challenge...
A quick thought after we have started to invite the group to contribute ideas (being collated here) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1olLYDIGkunaYkcn1A3lLVM4qbAUPpvIVQKxaQWMLVnM/edit
As...
By Simon Travers
In my role as POP’s learning champion, I can see from POP Collectives that collaboration impacts the grassroots voluntary sector. Collaborative...
Notes on conversations about collaboration:
People recognise it’s important, but what actually is it?
Some feel there isn’t enough, that often projects...
We had 38 initial sign ups, 5 do not wish to participate anymore, 8 have been in contact but have not yet been able to attend a session and 7 have yet...
Since the Collectives Fund was launched in Plymouth in Autumn 2020, POP have worked with over 20 diverse projects to provide meaningful social and environmental...
In June 2021, Frontier Economics reported an estimate that “a £1 million investment in community-led social infrastructure in a left-behind area could...
We are developing our approach to learning and impact using methods that are more ‘friendly’ in the complex environment we work in. Numbers and figures...