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This network is for any local groups who wish to better connect together to improve your local community and environment.

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Start by contacting POP and/or the person who leads on your local network.

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stuart@plymouthoctopus.org

Neighbourhood Networks are a brilliant way for local groups and organisations to be able to know and contact one another. By knowing one another, it helps each group better support local people or connect with the community. It can also help with giving advice around how to best do the work – like funding or managing volunteers.  

The Neighbourhood Networks provide a ‘place’ for connection and collaboration, enabling individuals; organisations; charities; community ‘leader’s; faith groups; local businesses and employees from, for example, housing associations and the City Council, to work together to better support their neighbours. Using the digital platform, SLACK, communication is shared, and connections formed ensuring rapid (and efficient) support to those-in-need. 

By POP supporting these networks, we can then connect one network to another, multiplying the advantages even further.  

They all started in March 2020, POP began working with Plymouth City Council and established community organisations, such as Nudge Community Builders; Whitleigh Big Local; Stoke Traders and Residents Association and The Hoe Neighbourhood Forum with the aim of increasing and strengthening their role in supporting their neighbours primarily during lockdown. Since then other Neighbourhood Networks have set up across the city as community groups, looking to provide greater support to people, have evolved. Significantly, the experience of the more-established groups has enabled the newer groups to work more quickly and more effectively, sharing information of what has – and has not – worked. 

Each Neighbourhood Network is distinctive and unique to its own area of the city: there is no blueprint. Each has evolved according to the needs of the community; the people involved and, primarily, the capacity of those individuals. And these people are extraordinary driven by a combination of desire; determination and commitment to support others. 

The community response to COVID-19 has shown us how effective we can be when we work together. We are better together. 

For more information about how to set up a Neighbourhood Network, or join an existing one please contact: info@plymouthoctopus.org 

Your Neighbourhood Needs You!

If you – or your organisation – want to be involved and can offer some support to your neighbourhood text 07411 949 742. Register your details and you will be contacted by someone from POP or from your neighbourhood who will be delighted to speak with you about how you might be able to help. 

Neighbourhood Network Helpline Numbers:

  • Whitleigh: 01752 875916 
  • The Hoe: 07723 577305 
  • Stonehouse: 07723 494413 
  • Keyham: 01752 563095 or 07780 711894 
  • Stoke: 07380 319128 
  • Efford: 07380 309586 
  • Glenholt: 07849 413125 

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Rewilding Network

This network is for individuals, community groups and organisations are taking action to support biodiversity by rewilding grass verges, creating new habitats, planting trees, inspiring connection with nature and much more!

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This network is for anyone who connects people into community activities - such as social prescribers, community workers and link workers.

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Belong in Plymouth

Anyone that shares the vision for Plymouth being a city where no one feels forgotten. If you want to help tackle social isolation & loneliness, please join the network.

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karen@plymouthoctopus.org
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Plastic Free Plymouth

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Plastic Free Plymouth

Were you inspired by Blue Planet II? We were ! For the last four years we’ve been working with Surfers Against Sewage Plastic Free Communities project to gain Plastic Free Community status for the city.

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plasticfreeplymouthsound@gmail.com
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Plymouth Food Aid Network

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This network is for organisations seeking fair food access across Plymouth and surrounding areas

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foodaid@foodplymouth.org
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Refugee & Asylum Seekers (RAS) Network

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This network is for anyone interested in creating a welcoming city and a city of sanctuary.

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jabo@dbi.org.uk
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Children & Young People’s Network

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Community Heritage Network

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alan.butler@plymheritagenetwork.org.uk
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Plymouth Social Enterprise Network

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Trauma Informed Plymouth Network

This network is for anyone who shares the vision to take a transformative approach that enables its people, its communities and its services to come together, to innovate and create a truly compassionate city.

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Plymouth Fundraisers Network

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Plymouth Community Sports Network

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