Getting Started

Please keep an eye out for our Facebook posts. We’re posting in Facebook groups across Plymouth. This is so we reach out to people that POP would not normally be in contact with and perhaps would not normally consider being active in their community.

Here’s a taste of the fantastic community action made possible by Street-to-Scale across Plymouth so far:

• Rock the Block – A silent disco event for community residents to come together in Stoke
• Adelaide Angels – Litter picking, gardening group and events in Adelaide Street to increase community engagement. Click here for Plymouth Herald article
• Arabic School – A school led by volunteers teaching Arabic to Arabic and non-Arabic speakers improving social cohesion 
• Collective Good – Creating personal welcome hygiene packs for homeless people in hostels  
• Free Radical Creations – Art, photography and social opportunities using different spaces  
• Madness with WonderZoo (Mental Health Arts Day) – A Mental Health awareness event for artists to share work and perform  
• North Star Study Group – Looking at the impacts of colonialism through a Monuments Walk, a book club, film screenings and raising awareness of the group  
• No Whey Plymouth – Vegan food and marketplace celebration in Stonehouse 
• PAP Project (Blue Plaque Project) – 40 blue plaques designed to celebrate the positive history of Plymouth   
• ReadEasy Plymouth – Training coaches to work 1-1 with adults to improve literacy  
• Royal Cinema Trust – Saving the Reel Cinema through raising awareness 
• St. Matthias Community Garden – To buy tools to improve the gardening group at St Matthias church  
• Banking for Change – Creating art spaces for children and adults in Stonehouse and building a grotto for Santa when he came to Stonehouse last Christmas   
• Fish is Fun – Teaching children about fish, their habitats and sustainability   
• Street Meets – North Stonehouse – Bringing residents of North Stonehouse together through ‘street meets’, events, food and gatherings   
• Medicine through Time (Medifest)– developing the idea of Science & Health Exploratory through display areas and an event in Plymouth Guildhall
• Greenbank – Onward House – Housing Estate Summer Activities 
• Spaceforce – Workshops to build and then launch Space Balloons into near space   
• THINQTANQ – Improving the environment of a community workspace in PL1  
• Another World Farm – establishing a demonstrator indoor urban farm 

Young people’s Street-to-Scale Projects 

• PZL Small Press (YEA Plymouth) – workshops with young people, setting up a small zine printing press and producing zines  
• Infinity Festival (Ernesettle Community Day) – Youth Music festival in Ernesettle
• Youth Community Garden – creating a green space and pizza oven at Redeemer Church 
• Traversing Wall – Scouts and Leaders, planning, designing and building a climbing wall on the Scout Hut in Keyham 1st Keyham (St.Mark) Scout Group 
• New4You (Youth Communal Area and Fire Pit) – Firepit and extension of communal area for Youth Group  
• Big Wills Memorial Garden– Southway Youth Centre 
• Diversity Project– Whitleigh Youth Group exploring different cultures and religions 
• In other Words (Routeways) – Celebration Ball arranged by and for young people experiencing mental health challenges 
• Growing Together – making and selling goods at a community market and a pop-up Christmas Shop along with a business run by young men with additional needs.  
• OK Boomer – Literary Arts event planned and delivered by young people at Leadworks Factory – Rendle Street, Stonehouse

Coming Soon

• StiltskinCreative Arts & Theatre Company – Community Event run by the youth people’s board at Soapbox Theatre Devonport Park 
• Bee Project – Exploring ideas to tackle the decline of bees. Set up by students from Plymouth High School for Girls