Community Climate Centre

Collaborators
  • Community Climate Centre
  • Climate Action Plymouth
  • Environment Plymouth
Briefly describe your project
 
This project is two-fold. Firstly, we will provide a sequence of events around the climate/environment. This entails: talks, workshops, training, screenings, etc. This is aimed at bringing new people into the climate movement. We will also run events for people and groups who are already involved in social change and climate action, building leadership and capacity to steer Plymouth towards net zero emissions.

Secondly, we’ll work towards securing another building to be the home-base for our community. We need to spend dedicated time on the practical steps to realise that dream.

 
Describe what you hope your Collective will achieve
 

We hope to engage more people around climate change and environmental issues. We hope to spread knowledge so people can make informed decisions. And provide pathways for people to join groups (because just doing things as an individual can feel very lonely and is not impactful enough) and participate in collective action. In order to achieve this we will continue to partner up with all the amazing groups working on these issues (not just the collaborators of this application, but all the organisations in our network).

Moreover, we hope to continue the journey of providing a community space for people, groups and organisations that are involved with climate, environment and social change. Our aim is to build trust, connection and solidarity between people, groups and organisations and provide opportunities for dialogue and celebration. Climate Action Plymouth and Environment Plymouth are fantastic partners to work together on this project. EP brings together many different groups, businesses and organisations. CAP is an amazing organiser of events and their recent book on combustion free energy and heat is a true guide for how to work towards net zero targets in the city. Moreover, we hope to work together with all groups and organisations in our network to organise events and create a physical home-base together.

We hope to acquire a building that will be in the hands of the community forever. We might have to rent for the time being, but we will set up another legal structure to be able to give out community shares, to raise funds for a building that is owned by the community. This will take time, but is totally possible!

 
Describe how your Collective formed
 

Last year the Community Climate Centre transformed the old Waterstones building on New George Street for 6 months. The project and partnerships thrived with more than 4,000 visits. We organised and hosted many events, from film screenings, meetings, training and workshops, to music performances, and free bike repairs. A beautiful and strong community formed in the space, where we worked together with loads of groups and organisations, including Climate Action Plymouth and Environment Plymouth.

As our lease ended in December, the project is now moving into a new phase to engage the community.

 
Which collaboration “shape” do you expect will best describe your project?
 
MURMURATION – Like a flock of birds flying together, all the organisations of the collective work closely together on all aspects of the project.
 
In which areas would you expect most of your grant to be spent?
 
Core Funding / Time

Plymouth Community Events

Collaborators

  • Diverse Events CIC
  • The Village Hub
  • Tamar View Community Centre

Briefly describe your project

A collaboration between Diverse Events CIC, The Village Hub, and Tamar View Community Centre to create a series of free-to-attend public events across Plymouth, focusing on collaborative marketing, buying power, and cross-city teamwork to ultimately collectively save on expenditure, all as a ‘proof of concept’ to show that collaborative working across community events is beneficial.

Describe what you hope your Collective will achieve

Plymouth has an incredible city-wide community – community events are central to bringing that community together and increasing that well established community cohesion.

All three organisations have run events well in Plymouth and will continue with their tried and tested formats, however, we will develop collectively, sharing resources, buying-power, and assets with the aim of reducing expenditure which can be redirected at increasing the level of event delivered, which in turn increases community cohesion.

Measurable outcomes include: – Increase community cohesion by increasing attendees from out of area to the free-to-attend events with collaborative marketing – Create a more financially sustainable event by reducing expenditure – Reduce expenditure by sharing marketing and assets – Reduce expenditure by working together to increase purchasing power – Increase local service involvement through one simple booking for multiple events

Once the events have been delivered, we will review our collaborative work and produce a report (hosted on both The Village Hub website and Diverse Events CIC website), showing that if community events work collaboratively across the city, it will save them money (the biggest barrier to overcome with events!) as well as increase community cohesion. This evidence could lead to the re-establishment of the ‘Plymouth Events Committee’ where many community events can meet and work together to truly benefit Plymouth’s communities.

This project may also lead to: – a wider networking having been created

– deeper community links

Describe how your Collective formed

Diverse Events CIC already work with many organisations across Devon and Cornwall, and see that each event suffers the same downfalls, the same struggles, and are always battling the same battles. They approached two other events in Plymouth, one run by The Village Hub and another run by Tamar View Community Centre, to run a ‘pilot’ of sorts in the hope of proving the collaborative working between events can be hugely beneficial to all parties involved.

Which collaboration “shape” do you expect will best describe your project?

HUB AND SPOKE – Like a bike wheel, one organisation holds things together at the centre, while other organisations perform specific tasks

In which areas would you expect most of your grant to be spent?

Events, Marketing / Promotion, Equipment Upgrades

Ernesettle Launch Pad

Collaborators
 
  • Ernesettle Community Network
  • St Aidan’s Church
  • 31st Plymouth Scout Group
 
Briefly describe your project
 
Ernesettle Community Network, St Aidan’s Church and 31st Scouts will work together to reinstate the Ernesettle Carnival for the Coronation of King Charles 3rd and as a launch event for the Ernesettle Community Network. The Carnival will then continue as an annual event, including the passing on of the King’s and Queen’s crowns each year. We will host a shopping and craft village and other types of fun-day activities with the addition of live music running until early evening.
 
Describe what you hope your Collective will achieve
 
This collaboration aims to bring people together to reduce social isolation and improve their well-being. All groups, residents and organisations who live and work primarily in the Ernesettle area and also in the wider Plymouth community will be brought together in a Carnival parade which will bring diverse communities together to celebrate their uniqueness and to also share their skills and knowledge. The collaboration will also promote inclusion. We hope that all who come to the event will have fun and feel accepted within the event. The event will take place on 6th May and run from 1100 – 2000 and have 2 distinct sections, the fun-day part finishing by 1600 and the live music and a BBQ continuing until 2000.
St Aidan’s are committed to playing their part in seeing the Ernesettle community flourish and thrive and helping residents through challenging times.
31st Plymouth Scout Group has a strong ethos of community and will help with the logistics of the day and to take on certain activities like the sports events.
The collective hope is to achieve a willingness for more Ernesettle community groups to come together to put on events for the residents. To bring together different community groups who have a variety of skills and creativity to problem solving in making the event a success. It will show other POP organisations within the Ernesettle area the benefits of collaboration.
The hope would be that this is a launch event for the new Ernesettle Community Network. City wide organisations and POP members would be invited to be part of the day to celebrate Ernesettle (and with the NSPCC Together for Childhood pilot project) as a safe and welcoming space and to then have these groups and organisations collaborating together through the network.
The majority of the funding will be spent on this event but if there is anything left it will go to other events that the Ernesettle Community Network would like to put on later in the year with other POP members in Ernesettle.
 
Describe how your Collective formed
It started off with community members who are part of Ernesettle Community Network and St Aidan’s Church coming together to talk about having an event for the coronation. At the next Ernesettle Community Network meeting the idea was brought to those present and asked who wanted to be part of the collaboration. Due to the ideas brought to the table we thought that it would be good for other organisations to be involved like Pride and Scrapstore.
All organisations within the collective have a strong ethos of community so wanted to come together to put something on for the community of Ernesettle.
 
Which collaboration “shape” do you expect will best describe your project?
 
MURMURATION – Like a flock of birds flying together, all the organisations of the collective work closely together on all aspects of the project.
 
In which areas would you expect most of your grant to be spent?
 
Events
 

Ocean Publishing Partnership

Collaborators
 
  • Ocean Publishing
  • Real Ideas Organisation
  • Slate Publishing

Briefly describe your project

 
Ocean Publishing plans a literacy and literary project in Stonehouse, which includes a public library, book recycling, and writing and reading workshops.

We are installing two historic letterpress printing presses in the café area of Ocean Studios. These will power a project involving printing, writing and poetry classes and opportunities for individuals to self-publish.

The availability of books is crucial for Stonehouse because the district has no public library; this is at a time when literacy levels are of concern in Plymouth and elsewhere.

Writing, reading and self-expression will be central to our collaborations with community groups, individuals, and schools.

 
Describe what you hope your Collective will achieve
 

The project hopes to achieve the following:

1 Help to increase the level of literacy in Stonehouse.
According to Plymouth City Council’s neighbourhood statistics (2020), Stonehouse was the most deprived area in the city, and outside the city centre, was the area most affected by crime.
Precise literacy statistics for Plymouth districts don’t exist, but we do know that research by the Plymouth Children in Poverty organisation, set up in 2020, shows:
• 71% of convicted youth offenders have communication and literacy barriers.
• 54% of children from a disadvantaged background did not meet a basic reading standard at the end of KS1 (SATS papers Year 2).
• Children who own a book at home are six times more likely to read above the level.
There is a recognised link between deprivation and literacy, and we believe our project will make a difference in Stonehouse.

2 Raise the appreciation of reading and writing literature – learning through practice. Poster and social media campaign to run alongside workshops.

3 Connect with the ‘making’ activities of the recently reorganised Ocean Studios.

4 Improve wellbeing – by helping individuals learn by ‘doing and making’.

5 Reduce the effects of social isolation still present from the pandemic through workshops and meetings. This continues to be a priority for many community groups.

6 We hope to launch several collaborations, primarily in volunteering and other literary community groups.

7 Offer a unique hands-on approach to publishing; training will be available in letterpress composition and printing techniques. New skills and confidence will give individuals the skills to express themselves.

 
Describe how your Collective formed
 

How did the partnership come about

The partnership came about because of the acquisition of an automatic printing press by Alan Qualtrough, who is a studio holder at Ocean Studios, where he runs a small letterpress studio.
A reorganisation was underway at Ocean Studios, which presented opportunities for installing the machine in a public area.
At first, this appeared to be a modest increase in printing capacity at Ocean Studios. Still, once Emma Whitehead became involved in the proposal, a different scale of opportunity arose.
Emma’s company – Slate Publishing – represent a broad spectrum of writers, particularly those from challenging socio-economic backgrounds, LGBTQ communities, and ethnic groups that have historically been minoritised throughout the publishing industry.
Emma also has many books, enough to create a substantial library.
An informal meeting was held between the three potential partners. As a result, a beneficial collaboration could be formed that brought together many skills that could be utilised by the Real Ideas networks.
The combined skills and resources include:
• Creative writing (including poetry) and critical studies.
• Publishing (private and community).
• Letterpress composing and printing.
• Graphic design.
• Equipment such as presses and books.
• Social enterprise skills.
• Community connections in Stonehouse.
• Restorative practice to support mental health.
• A common goal of giving people a voice.

 
Which collaboration “shape” do you expect will best describe your project?
 
PLATFORM –An organisation, supported by others, that generates opportunities for self-expression by individuals or organisations.
 
In which areas would you expect most of your grant to be spent?
 
Core Funding / Time
 
During the first round, POP members will be asked to advise you. What advice would be most helpful?
 
Advice on attracting volunteers.
Coaching in ongoing evaluation of the project and its effectiveness, particularly with regard to community-based activities.

Window of Opportunity

Collaborators

  • Vacancy Atlas
  • Real Ideas Organisation
  • Nudge Community Builders
 
Briefly describe your project
 
A collaboration between Vacancy Atlas, Real Ideas and Nudge to bring innovative and creative ideas and experiences to the High Street.
 
Describe what you hope your Collective will achieve
 

We hope to work together to research and pilot alternative ways for individuals and organisations to access space on the HIgh Street, this will be done by providing varying levels of funding to access our pop up space at 107 Cornwall Street to trial ideas and projects that would benefit from a High Street presence, but are not yet developed enough to take on a space under normal rental and lease requirements.

We will undertake this in 4 ways:

Real Ideas to bring some existing projects to the collaboration for us to work with.
Nudge to bring some existing projects to the collaboration for us to work with.
Vacancy Atlas to bring some existing projects to the collaboration for us to work with.
Vacancy Atlas will administer an Open Call for additional projects and ideas to come forward to work with us.

This will be a pilot research project that will hopefully identify ways that our organisations can continue to work together.
We hope to find new ways of bringing projects to the High Street, trialing different models in a safe space for Vacancy Atlas as the space providers, Real Ideas and Nudge as collaborators and the users of the space under the programme. This means we can trial innovative models of space usage, ultimately understanding the alternative offers that are successful. These can then be offered more widely to potential space users of our pop up shop and inform how we continue to collaborate together.

We will undertake research and collect data during the pilot stage, developing plans and outcomes with each user of the space, and reflecting on these afterwards collectively. We will work with pop members to understand the demand for spaces on the High Street, and aim to understand what support they require to achieve this. We will publish a small document aiming to help those to understand how we can help them, and how they can help us utilise our space on the High Street in a way that works for everyone. This will include assessing the financial costs in a more transparent way with space users, aiming to encourage user ownership and understanding of the model we are piloting.

This work will also inform thoughts on wider use of alternative models of space usage by individuals and organisations throughout Plymouth. This pilot will inform how we collectively work together in the future to deliver and support these types of projects.

 
Describe how your Collective formed
 
Vacancy Atlas have been working informally with both Nudge and Real Ideas for 6 months on trialing some very small scale alternative uses of our pop up space since it opened. Vacancy Atlas are a graduate of Real Ideas Start Something programme as well.
 
Which collaboration “shape” do you expect will best describe your project?
 
HUB AND SPOKE – Like a bike wheel, one organisation holds things together at the centre, while other organisations perform specific tasks
 
In which areas would you expect most of your grant to be spent on?
 
Research / Pilot

The Storytelling Collective

Collaborators
 
  • WonderZoo CIC
  • Omnium Radio
  • Marbles Lost and Found
  • Mindful Art Club CIC
 
Briefly describe your project
 
Mindful Art Club, WonderZoo, Omnium Radio and Marbles Lost and Found will work together to create an opening gig, creative workshops and a closing exhibition over three months in 2023. These events will feature a research element, where participants will be asked to talk about what they need to help improve their lives within the changing social and political climate. An independent evaluator will collate the findings in a report, and this will be presented at the exhibition. This will be a pilot research project, hopefully leading to a longer collaboration.
 
Describe what you hope your Collective will achieve
 
This is a collaborative pilot project between four groups that aims to tackle social isolation and improve well-being. At the heart of the project is fun, laughter and putting a smile on people’s faces, within group settings that foster empathy, trust and acceptance. The project will take place over three months (Feb-April 2023) with research conducted with the participants that will feed into a report written by an independent evaluator. The ideas gathered from the research will inform a plan to create a two year collaboration between the four groups, with further funding sought from National Lottery or other larger funding bodies. This pilot project will be a testing ground for different ideas using existing expertise and community connections. The four groups all currently work with diverse individuals, providing opportunities for creativity, skill and knowledge sharing, social interaction and mental health support. The organisations will offer their tried and tested workshop formats, but with the additional offer of letting the participants have a voice that will feed into the research aspect. Participants of the project will be able to express their views and offer ideas for how their current difficulties can be supported better within the community. This will hopefully lead on to create a longer program that is evidence-based and tailored to people’s present experiences, rather than using past models, which may not be suited to current issues.
 
– First event will be a collaborative performance event – an opportunity for one representative of The Storytelling Collective to give a short talk about the project, its philosophy, aims and activities. Followed by seven artists who will perform comedy, music and spoken word. There will be food and drinks for the audience, who will be invited from the general public, as well as regular participants of the four organisations.
– Three workshops run by each group during Feb-April 2023, with feedback forms and/or online surveys for research. During the sessions, casual conversations will be had with participants that aim to bring out honest perspectives and potential ideas, with notes taken for keywords and phrases. There will be 12 workshops in total, at different locations in Plymouth including Omnium Radio HQ, Union Corner, Oasis Project and The Plot.
– An independent evaluator will create a report using feedback from the workshops, that will enable the groups to reflect upon the pilot project and start creating plans for a two year project.
– The three month project will culminate in an evening at a location TBC, showcasing the work that was done during the workshops and the results of the research and evaluation report. It will be an opportunity for participants to get together and hear how their ideas and perspectives have been heard and will feed into a larger project.
– If this pilot project is successful, with the groups able to work alongside and support one another, there is the possibility of creating a new network within Plymouth that is geared towards tackling social isolation using creative practices.
 
Describe how your Collective formed
 
Our four different groups have known of each other as friends for several years, with some of us working together already on various projects. We felt that working together as a collective would allow each of us to gain further knowledge, experience and skills, which will make us more resilient as organisations, leading to greater long term sustainability and positive impact on our community.
Our groups have similar values and aims, as we all work towards tackling social isolation, supporting mental health, giving people a sense of fun and purpose, and providing opportunities to develop friendships. We felt that we’d be able to work together successfully as we all offer unique creative approaches and perspectives, such as performance, radio, visual art, and talks, which can enable mutual support and growth. We hope that this pilot project can lead to longer term collaborations.
 
Which collaboration “shape” do you expect will best describe your project?
 
MURMURATION – Like a flock of birds flying together, all the organisations of the collective work closely together on all aspects of the project.
 
In which areas would you expect most of your grant to be spent?
 
Events

Wildlife Corridor Makers

Collaborators

  • Inner City Seeds
  • Climate Clarity CIC
  • Hope in the Heart
  • The Village Hub

We hope to work inclusively with our community to develop a wildlife corridor in the heart of Stoke. We are as interested in providing safe spaces for wildlife as we are people and recognise we need some tending of relationships so we can work together really well and hold relationships as carefully as we hold our passion for the planet.

Describe what you hope your Collective will achieve

We want to take our gardening project to the next level by learning together about sustainability for people and planet. Using learning and support from Hope in the Heart CIC and Climate Clarity CIC we want to develop our collaborative growing space whereby people know they can come and plant and tend without fear of being criticised, and where we can learn how to be part of the solution to our climate crisis, even in a micro attainable way. We will also be learning how we support a completely open, communal space in ways that don’t demand exclusivity or ownership. Our space is also used as a footpath to the local pub and a place where people can drink and smoke outside, and it also contains bins and rubbish as any traditional back lane, so how do we learn to work together and embrace the use of our wildlife corridor by the humans that regularly use it. And how can we give nature and wildlife as much of a look in as everyone else?

We would like to share learning of how we have found ourselves in the climate crisis and why and how we can disseminate this knowledge around, even to people who might not see the crisis.

Describe how your Collective formed

We formed through Inner City Seeds approaching the Village Hub to develop our small courtyard gardening space since July 2021 with the support of volunteers on a drop in basis. We met with Hope in the Heart as a suitably person centred organisation that could help us learn to appreciate and value our own diversity and uniqueness as well as helping us work together better, and with Climate Clarity CIC as the best ever facilitators of Climate Learning that allows us to look at this huge crisis with a lens of what we can do rather than what is beyond us.

Which collaboration “shape” do you expect will best describe your project?

PLATFORM –An organisation, supported by others, that generates opportunities for self-expression by individuals or organisations.

In which areas would you expect most of your grant to be spent?

We expect to pay for workshops from Hope in the Heart and Climate Clarity to support community members to continue developing excellent relational skills as well as more understanding of the wider issues. We also expect to pay Inner City Seeds to lead the project to include green walls, wildlife planting, other planting and growing along the corridor and in our courtyard garden , delivered by community members. The Village Hub will take a 10% admin fee to pay for utilities, equipment as needed, relational support and publicity.

Plymouth and District Junior Netball League

Collaborators
 
  • West Devon Junior Netball League
  • Ivybridge Junior Netball Club
  • Musketeers Netball Club
  • Plymstock Community Netball Club
  • West Devon Junior Netball League
 
Briefly describe your project
 
To promote Netball in Plymouth. To encourage more players to come forward and try a new sport, make it affordable to all and develop the players we have to enable them to work towards playing regionally and accessing the pathway to county and national netball.
 
Describe what you hope your Collective will achieve
 
We want to encourage children to keep fit and healthy by participating in a great team sport that brings children in the community together. By making netball more affordable and accessible to all parts of Plymouth we hope to give children that are possibly struggling with poor mental health and financial hardship the chance to be part of something new. Our aim is to use the funds to go into schools and offer taster sessions, be able to help clubs take on new children by training more coaches and offering additional workshops throughout the year that will be open to all.
We would also like to help children that are members of local clubs to be put forward for their coaching and umpiring qualifications. We have a lack of Level 2 coaches and umpires in Plymouth and at the moment this restricts what we can offer. By subsidising these costs we hope to encourage more people to think about doing these qualifications. We would also like to provide uniforms for our umpires at the junior league. We would also look to support creating Pathways in Plymouth to allow any girls that are exceptionally talented to progress. Currently any girls that fill into this category have to travel to Exeter or Truro.
 
Describe how your Collective formed
 
Our collective was formed through the netball community in Plymouth. We are all like minded and want to see netball grow and be more affordable to all. We formed a brand new junior league in March 2022 and vowed to bring Netball back to Plymouth! We all have netball in our hearts and work well as a collective. We all share different attributes that we can offer. Some of us are trained in safe guarding, health and safety, Level 2 netball coaches, finance, policies and procedures. We hope that by sharing our skills we will be able to successfully collaborate and bring something great to Plymouth Netball!
 
Which collaboration “shape” do you expect will best describe your project?
 
MURMURATION – Like a flock of birds flying together, all the organisations of the collective work closely together on all aspects of the project.
 
In which areas would you expect most of your grant to be spent?
 
Training / Education

Precious Plastic Collective

Collaborators

● Precious Plastics Plymouth

● Nudge Community Builders

● Plymouth Scrapstore

 

Briefly describe your project

Plastic is a precious material, however, in the UK we only recycle less than 10% of plastic. We want to change that. Precious Plastics endeavors to take on recycling on a local level. We already have 2 shredders and an injection-moulding machine but are looking to add a sheet press to our equipment. This will allow us to recycle more plastic and turn plastic waste into new valuable and versatile products; from sheet materials for construction to prototyping and material research. The project will bring the community together by being playful and educational, whilst learning about plastic and its properties.

 

Describe what you hope your Collective will achieve

Our vision is to make Precious Plastics Plymouth a household name in the city and raise awareness about plastic processing, making and recycling. By producing sheet material with the sheet press we will be able to provide Nudge Community Builders- and individuals around Plymouth- with building materials to create items like desks, tables and shelving but also material to create dividing walls for their buildings, like the newly acquired C103 Building on Union Street.

Plymouth has signed up to the ambitious plan to become a Fab city. (https://fabcityplymouth.co.uk/) This means that by 2054 everything that gets sold in Plymouth will need to be created in Plymouth. This plan requires businesses and individuals to change the way they think about production. There will be a need for more maker spaces and creative thinking around new ways of fabrication. We feel that our project will come instrumental in achieving some of the educational and technical elements of this change.

Working with the University of Plymouth and Nudge community builders we have already been able to reach a number of individuals and organisations. The response is overwhelmingly positive. Our base of operations is the Greenhouse at the Plot. The Greenhouse project at The Plot ( https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/arts-humanities-business/the-greenhouse – a Makerspace) will act as an incubator for local people to develop a variety of skills ie CAD/CAM and mould-making for new products and other technical/maker skills that will benefit our project. The greenhouse has a strong link with the University of Plymouth, this will help in nourishing a network of savvy and curious individuals, that will benefit from the material experimentation and bring in new ideas and projects. Whilst maintaining a foothold within Union Street and the communities around Stonehouse.

Working together with Plymouth Scrapstore allows us to streamline our source material (Plastic) from various businesses and individuals in and around Plymouth. It will allow us to tap into their resources so we can buy large quantities of clean plastics of the same type (polypropylene and Polyethylene) that are suitable for our production process. We would be holding free events in collaboration with the Scrapstore which will help to encourage different users to visit and engage with them. It will also allow us to sell our products in their store so visitors/customers can see what can be done with waste plastic. We will encourage customers to come up with ideas for new products that they might want to create for their own gain. This can lead to them skilling up and getting involved in the project through activities at the Greenhouse at the Plot, creating a more resilient community in the process.

 

Describe how your Collective formed

These three entities, Precious Plastics, Nudge and Scrapstore have well-established connections with each other. The Scrapstore has provided space for Precious Plastics to hold some of its events and promote the process via demonstrations of the equipment. They also support us by providing the public with a place to bring their unwanted plastic waste. The added benefit of the Scrapstore collection point is that the plastic is clean and often uniform, this saves us time in sorting and washing. The Scrapstore also helped to bring Precious Plastics to Plymouth from Tavistock, so we have a vested interest in it expanding and growing .. saving more plastic from a short life and giving it the opportunity to be even more Precious! Since one of the directors of Precious Plastics also works with Nudge Community Builders in The Greenhouse at the Plot there are strong connections with the activities that happen there around upskilling and creating a resilient community. The production process of Precious plastics has many aspects that overlap with the skills offered in The greenhouse, Like Computer Assisted Drawing (CAD) and Computer Assisted Manufacturing (CAM) They also have equipment that is able to be used by Precious Plastics staff and or members. All these well-established links allow each of these partners to promote each other’s work and benefit from each other. A joined-up, linked way of thinking is very much needed to make this a success. I have been very transparent with Nudge and the Scrapstore about what we will use this funding money for. It is evident that in the short term this will have the most benefit for Precious Plastics. By holding free events and producing materials for both partners we will however all benefit from this injection of money to get our sheet press to become a reality.

 

Which collaboration “shape” do you expect will best describe your project?

HUB AND SPOKE – Like a bike wheel, one organisation holds things together at the centre, while other organisations perform specific tasks

 

In which areas would you expect most of your grant to be spent?

Equipment Upgrades

Marine Edibles

Collaborators
 
  • Conscious Sisters CIC
  • Fisher’s Footsteps
  • Creative Arts Therapy Devon CIC
Briefly describe your project
 
We aim to enable shore communities to consume more of the free, healthy and sustainable food in our sea and on our shoreline. Teaching people living close to the sea, skills to catch and cook fish, forage at the shoreline and grow food at home. Marine Edibles is a research project, an experiment which hopes to deliver a fresh, creative and collaborative approach to eating fish, seafood and our coastline bounty.
 
During the first round, POP members will be asked to advise you. What advice would be most helpful?
 
Who has experience of monitoring a change in eating habits. How have they evaluated this change? Do you have resources you can share?
 
Describe what you hope your Collective will achieve
 
We aim to bring together a variety of skills and a creative approach to problem solving to explore how you can change eating habits. This is a home-grown pilot project exploring what benefits can be gleaned from collaboration. We are passionate about food and ambitious about changing perceptions. We are also ambitious and have a shared reputation for delivering high quality projects.
Marine Edibles is committed to Sustainable Fish: A campaign to protect precious marine environments and fishing livelihoods, and call for fish to be bought from sustainable sources. We want to show what can be done if people and organisations make a concerted effort to change their buying habits.
 
Describe how your Collective formed
 
We have worked together before but not as a collective. We are a group of community-minded practitioners and organisations who share common values and ideas. This project evolved out of a previous project called Clan-Kind which focused on connecting people to nature. Some but not all of the experts were sourced from this work. Marine Edibles is working with a range of new and inspiring professionals.
 
Which collaboration “shape” do you expect will best describe your project?
 
HUB AND SPOKE – Like a bike wheel, one organisation holds things together at the centre, while other organisations perform specific tasks
 
In which areas would you expect most of your grant to be spent?
 
Training / Education