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Empowering Collaboration – A Fresh Look For Pop Collectives
10 August, 2023
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...
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POP ideas Impact Report 2022-2023
18 May, 2023
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Strictly Come Funding – Reporting on the Cost of Living Community Fund
31 March, 2023
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...
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Being anti-racist
21 March, 2023
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...
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POP ideas KPI reports
24 January, 2023
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Networks = anti-establishment?
14 December, 2022
Recently we’ve taken time to reflect on where we are in Plymouth and POP with regards networks. One of the great challenges is knowing how to spot...
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Learning about partnering - method to the madness?
29 November, 2022
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...
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MINI SYSTEMS 3: Guardians of the Good Enough
10 November, 2022
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...
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Plymouth sector surveys
02 November, 2022
Sector surveys Sector survey April 2020 Sector survey response April 2020 Sector survey June 2020 Sector...
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Plymouth Octopus Impact November 2022
01 November, 2022
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Mini Systems Blog 2: Time and Chance Happen to Them All
03 October, 2022
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...
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Mini Systems Blog 1: We Did a Democratic Lottery
14 September, 2022
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...
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The second mini systems draw
04 August, 2022
We’re back! Alongside the larger £40,000 award we had four £5,000 awards to make. Being consistent with the process already run, we carried out a...
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Mini systems draw has been made!
18 July, 2022
It’s been an exciting time and we have made the draw! Group submissions
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Open Space to Closed Collective
23 June, 2022
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...
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The Shape of You: How the ‘shape’ of our Collectives are helping to form learning at POP
22 June, 2022
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...
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Mini systems - themes emerging
14 June, 2022
Notes on conversations about collaboration: People recognise it’s important, but what actually is it? Some feel there isn’t enough, that often projects...
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Progress update 14/6/22
14 June, 2022
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...
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POP Collectives Process Keeps Evolving!
01 June, 2022
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...
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POP ideas Impact Report 2021-2022
19 April, 2022
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POP ideas Impact and Satisfaction 2021 to 2022
01 April, 2022
https://www.plymouthoctopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/POP-ideas-Impact-and-Satisfaction-2021-to-2022-FINAL.pdf
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Collaborating for grassroots impact
10 March, 2022
In June 2021, Frontier Economics reported an estimate that “a £1 million investment in community-led social infrastructure in a left-behind area could...
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POP Collectives - 2021 End of Year Report
19 December, 2021
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Plymouth VCSE (POP) Annual Report and Accounts ending 31st March 21
19 November, 2021
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The Power of Local Ecosystems in Plymouth
19 November, 2021
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Learning reports
17 May, 2021
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...
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POP ideas impact
27 April, 2021
“Having POP & POP ideas around to support sharing and collaboration with special events & valuable advice is of huge benefit to Plymouth.” POP...
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POP 2021 Learning Report
19 April, 2021
https://www.plymouthoctopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/POP-2021-Summary-Learning-Report-FINAL.pdf 
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Annual report & accounts 2019-20
01 November, 2020
https://www.plymouthoctopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Annual-report-2019-20.pdf
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PVCSE (POP+) Annual Report 2018 - March 2019
19 November, 2019
https://www.plymouthoctopus.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/PVCSE-POP-Annual-Report-Apr-2018-Mar-2019.pdf
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Losing Control with funding & social finance - podcasts
29 May, 2019
Challenges & Expectations Listen in to the expectations of delegates as they chew the fat; we hear about their expectations,...
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REPORT AND ACCOUNTS for period ended 31st March 2018
01 November, 2018
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Year one grant making evaluation
01 September, 2018
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