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...
Through Covid and now, throughout the cost-of-living crisis, we have seen how critical and invaluable voluntary projects, community organisations and networks...
It is an astonishing piece of our city history that FIFTEEN CENTURIES after it was first built, and still bearing the name of the grandson of the King...
The Village Hub opened its doors in the middle of Covid, ironically, as a place for people to come together, to share and to have fun. Run-down, dirty...
Plymouth Octopus (POP) are looking for a Learning Partner!
We have developed our work over the last decade. The last 5 years have been largely funded...
Click here to download the POP Page.
Notes for editors:
For more information, please contact Caroline Blackler on 07920 741718 or email carolineblackler@phonecoop.coop
The Plymouth Baby Bank has been called into action more than a hundred times since it was set up in January providing necessary – and sometimes urgent...
With arms entwined the Girls to Women initiative created a beautiful support bubble at its first networking event last month. On a sunny day in May more...
Freedom community festival is being held on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th May at Freedom Fields Park from 11 am each day. Some of the best in local live...
Energy is all around and held within us, so let’s collaborate with it, to celebrate it’s beautiful complexities and powerful natural healing qualities,...
BCHA recently welcomed Plymouth Argyle Community Trust for a tour of their Homeless hostel, based in Stonehouse. The Trust donated Ginsters goodies and...
Congratulations to Oli Large GHQ winning barbering level 3 learner of the Fellowship Foundation Award.
2000 barbering entries
48 finalists
3 winners...
The 'Just have a go' workshop series is aimed at Founders and Doers in Social Enterprises who want to apply some of the tools, tips and tricks they have...
PALS has been set up to create a space for purpose driven leaders. Over 12 months, you’ll build lasting relationships with a cohort of leaders working...
Wise Roots is a Community Interest Company that aims is to create a forest garden in Plymouth to serve as a platform for improving the environment, enhancing...
‘Perfectly Polished’ Plymstock salon owners Jodie and Jenny are delighted to have recruited 4 hairdressing staff while Jodie was training alongside them...
Plymouth Humanists are having a talk from an Independent Advisor to Devon and Cornwall Police - Independent Advisors are members of local communities who...
This event is on Thursday 25th May, 7pm, at the Sustainability Hub (Kirkby Lodge), University of Plymouth, PL4 8AA. It is a call to all groups and individuals...
Hello! I name is Dr Jonathan Harvey and I am the programme leader for the Special Educational Needs and Disability Studies degree programme at Plymouth...
Become a Volunteer Advocate & support a parent with a learning disability in meetings and appointments about their child, making sure they understand...
A collaboration brought to you by Pillars of Wellness and Wellbeing and the Mindful Art Club, this wellness day will provide sessions to assist you on...
Come and meet the Positive Action Team and learn about the different career and volunteering pathways into policing with Devon and Cornwall Police.
18th...
Oli Large, GHQ Training, barbering level 3 learner has made it to the finals of Concept Hair, a National competition held at Telford College on 23rd March....
The SSE AWE Two Day Intensive Programme is a completely free, two-day residential business course which is aimed at people identifying as women or non-binary....
Click here to download the POP Page.
Register for the next Plymouth Children & Young People Network meeting here.
Notes for editors:
For more information,...
There are more than a hundred POP member projects supporting children and young people across the city. From Scouts and Brownies to sports clubs and wellbeing...
It was a shock to the young people in Ernesettle, Whitleigh and St Budeaux when Barefoot, the organisation that provided most of their clubs and activities,...
In the last ten years Timebank has grown from a fledgling organisation with just a handful of projects into an established much-loved citywide befriending...
Do you suffer from Abibliophobia? If so, a new collective in Stonehouse is seeking funding from POP to provide people in the area, afflicted by the condition,...
Click here to download the POP Page.
Notes for editors:
For more information, please contact Caroline Blackler on 07920 741718 or email carolineblackler@phonecoop.coop
It used to be several cowsheds but for the last twenty years the Beckly Centre in Radford Park has been a much-needed safe place for young people and their...
Amidst the puddle of babies, toddlers and toys on the floor, a group of ‘new’ mums are finding their collective voice. They’ve turned up for the weekly...
Click here to download the POP Page.
Notes for editors:
For more information, please contact Caroline Blackler on 07920 741718 or email carolineblackler@phonecoop.coop
Plymstock has long been described by some of its residents as an amalgamation of several distinct ‘villages’. Oreston, Elburton, Hooe, Staddiscombe, Goosewell...
Curious about unleashing your creativity through sensory exploration? I gently guide you to explore your senses through play, colored light visualizations,...