Efford Neighbourhood Care Network Launch
Efford is the latest area to launch its own Neighbourhood Care Network in Plymouth. If you or anyone you know is in need of practical support, reassurance and companionship, you can call the helpline on 07380 309586 8AM-8PM, 7 days a week. Bringing together community leaders; youth workers; the Headteacher from the local school, community…
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Learning & Collaboration Part 2
In the midst of the first lockdown, POP+ awarded the second round of funding from its Learning and Collaboration initiative. Four projects received around £5000 each in April. Positively Diverse Action – City of Sanctuary, DBI, Stephane Kolinsky, Ptown Radio Positively Diverse Action is all about collaboration and trust within – and with – different…
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Plymouth COVID-19 Update from the Director of Public Health
The rate of COVID-19 cases has now exceeded 130 cases per 100,000 and the numbers are still increasing. We are also seeing an increase in people being admitted to hospital because of this virus. The city is on the cusp of a Tier 2 level; meaning tougher restrictions. We can expect to enter Tier 2…
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Learning Together
In 2019 POP+ set up something radical: The Learning & Collaboration Fund. The aim of the fund is ‘to do what it says on the tin’: to encourage learning (through ‘doing’) and to encourage existing groups and organisations to work together. “Funding,” says Charlotte Brew, POP+’s Learning Champion (yes that really is her job title),…
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Keeping Afloat: How POP+ & PSEN Have Helped Businesses Cast Adrift
Some of the city’s charitable organisations may owe their survival, post the pandemic, to the combined efforts of POP+ and the Plymouth Social Enterprise Network. Throughout the lockdown POP+ and PSEN have been regularly meeting with the Plymouth City Council’s economic development team to highlight the plight of charities and social enterprises across the city…
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Lockdown in Keyham and the Great Canine Challenge
When Helen Lounds had an accident and found herself being discharged from hospital with her leg in a cast her first concern wasn’t about herself but for her four dogs and how they were going to get their daily exercise. She need not have worried: not one but several knights in shining armour from the…
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How Technology is Enabling Compassion
Since the beginning of the pandemic and the launch of the lockdown, the internet and social media has enabled thousands of individuals to form support groups and to respond quickly to calls for help. That so much community action has taken place by so many has been both humbling and heartening but, at the same…
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POP ideas helps channel a quarter of a million pounds of emergency funding into the city
Since the beginning of the lockdown POP ideas has been supporting more than eighty voluntary, community, social enterprise groups and organisations across the city with one-to-one advice on how they might survive the economic and social impact of the pandemic. The team of advisors has been supporting more than twice as many groups and organisations…
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Learning & Collaboration Fund Update
Thank you for the 17 applications POP+ received for round two of the Learning and Collaboration fund, it highlighted the amazing collaboration which is happening across the city. In April, the Network of Networks the decision making group, met virtually in a Zoom room during the early days of lockdown, to decide which collaborations would…
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Care in the community by the community
An extraordinary wave of empathy and compassion has swept across the city, on the back of the coronavirus, delivering practical support for those in need; befriending the lonely and reassuring those anxious. Through the newly-formed Neighbourhood Care Networks, areas around the city – Stonehouse, The Hoe and Stoke – have taken help-in-the-community to a new…
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