POP Collectives is focussed on building collaboration and relationships by doing something together fuelled by £5,000. This combination of doing and working together is important. What it means is that we primarily focus on the collaboration, and secondary is the work you do – because we know everyone will always do amazing things. Our focus is to put more amazing things together to see if it multiplies your impact.
We only ask you agree to and meet the following requirements:
- You have three or more organisations in your Collective. A minimum of three must work in Plymouth and are POP members.
- Happy that we work with you as a Collective – i.e. we will always speak to all members of your Collective.
- Open submissions – your project is placed on our website and sent out to our members with the aim to reduce competition and duplication.
- Peer advice – you receive advice from peers to support your project and increase relationships.
- You engage with our Learning Champion who will work with you to understand how you are collaborating and doing your amazing work.
- Accountable – you engage with Social Change Nest as our partners to use Open Collective for financial transparency and wider accountability.
The POP membership is playing an active role in this process by rating, supporting and commenting on the Collectives each week.
CLICK HERE to rate, support, or comment on POP Collectives
We understand there will be conflicts of interest and loyalty between those involved in projects. This is why we make sure we have at least 25 members rating each submission before it is approved. We believe this will ensure there is a good amount of objectivity in the scores. However, we are always reviewing these assumptions based on experience and feedback.
Who can apply
- POP members – click here to check your member status or click here to become a member.
- Groups of 3 or more POP member groups or organisations. Individuals and non-members can be part of the Collective if this criteria is met.
How to apply
- Attend a POP Collectives intro session on Zoom – book here. This does not have to be attended by your whole Collective.
- You will be sent the submission link once you have attended the intro session.
- If you’ve been through the process and hope to make a second application, there is no need to attend another intro. Instead, please contact POP Learning Champion Simon at simon@plymouthoctopus.org to arrange a conversation.
What is funded
Up to £5,000 for anything that will socially or environmentally benefit Plymouth
What is not funded
- Work that is not showing direct social or environmental benefit
- Work that does not have a direct benefit in Plymouth
- The promotion of religion
- Things you’ve spent money on in the past and are looking to claim for now
What you can spend the money on
- Each collective will have to decide its own expense policy
Judgements & decision making
- Submissions will be approved if they receive a total of 95 stars within 25 votes to be awarded funding of £5,000.
- POP trustees may need to make a judgement between two projects, if the funding available is not sufficient for all submissions to be funded. See the decision making section below for more information.
Support and benefits
All submissions will receive support and benefits from the process:
- POP ideas support will be offered to all
- Advice will be received from your peers in the sector
- You may forge new relationships through the advice process
- Your idea and purpose will be promoted to Plymouth and beyond for support
Guides
- Registering on Open Collective – if you want to fundraise you can use this
- Creating your Collective account on Open Collective
If it’s difficult or impossible for you to complete an application form
You can contact us if you have any communication support needs. We’re happy to talk about alternative ways for you to tell us about your idea.
This document is an end of 2021 update on the current learning from our POP Collectives Fund. It hopes to inform the ongoing conversation about charitable funding both locally, within the Plymouth VCSE community, and nationally.
Since October 2020, nearly twenty projects have been awarded £3,000-£5,000 each from POP Collective.
From workshops preparing primary school girls for puberty to support agencies providing urgent items to refugees; from community art groups promoting wellbeing to opportunities for people living with disability to broadcast radio shows and podcasts, Collectives have worked together with invention, passion, and determination.
Since appointment, POP’s Learning Champion Simon Travers has met each of the funded Collectives and listened to their stories. Most of the observations contained within this document are based on first impressions from those meetings.
Click here to read the POP Collectives End of Year Update 2021
Collectives

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

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

The Storytelling Collective
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.

Wildlife Corridor Makers
Briefly describe your project Working inclusively with our community to develop a wildlife corridor in the heart of Stoke. During the first round, POP members

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

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

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

No Shame Campaign
Collaborators Hidden Lives Marbles Lost and Found Neonatural Online Advice Session: 23 January from 2pm Briefly describe your project The campaign is about bridging the gap between different

A Timeline of Change
Collaborators Friends of Central Park Karen Moore History Old Plymouth Society Fotonow Briefly describe your project Plymouth’s Central Park has seen huge changes in its 90-year

Front Page / Back Page / Centrefold
Open Collective page Collaborators CAMP CIC Flock South West Visual Arts Plymouth During the first round, POP members will be asked to advise you. What

Confidence Booster Workshops
Collaborators ● Art Craft & Giggles CIC ● Wellbeing Workshop Devon CIC ● All-Inclusive Textiles ● Kristina Coles Fashion & Textile Designer Briefly describe your

BuryTheGiant.Club
Collaborators Art & Energy Fotonow Plymouth Energy Community Plymouth Culture Briefly describe your project We want to create an online community space which inspires creativity

A.R.E HOME
Collaborators Devon and Cornwall Refugee Support Livewell Southwest PATH Provide Devon Migrant Legal Project Briefly describe your project The purpose is to assist asylum seekers

Messages from the HeARTlands
Collaborators · Hope in the Heart CIC · The Intersection · Real Ideas Organisation Briefly describe your project The recent Messages from the Heart pilot

New4You Youth
Collaborators New4You Youth Ivybridge Youth for Christ The Oasis Project Briefly describe your project At New4You Youth we facilitate a safe space for young people

Keyham Green Places Food Bank
Collaborators Keyham Green Places Horticultural Therapy Trust Onward Community Group Ltd Briefly describe your project This project will help us continue to provide a foodbank

Culture Connectors Collective
Collaborators ● Fotonow CIC ● Plymouth City Council ● Plymouth Arts Cinema Briefly describe your project The Culture Connectors Collective will welcome young people engaged

Freedom Community Festival Group
Collaborators ● Freedom Community Festival Group ● Clean Our Patch ● Wonder Zoo Briefly describe your project Freedom community festival began back in 2000 and

The Climate Hub
Collaborators The Climate Hub Climate Action Plymouth Climate Clarity Briefly describe your project Creating a welcoming and collaborative space to engage, educate, and empower the

Trauma Informed Collective
Collaborators Viewhear CIC Operation Emotion Trauma Informed Network Plymouth Describe your aims & ideas This partnership will tackle issues around trauma, how this affects people

11 WonderZoo Events with Omnium Radio & Shekinah Mutley
WonderZoo, Shekinah and Omnium Radio will be working together to deliver events in Stonehouse and Mutley that foster community cohesion and individual empowerment. We will create 11 events over the year, including 3 WonderZoo performance gigs, 3 Adelaide Park fun days, 4 Safer Streets Workshops and 1 Shekinah Christmas Show. Working together, we will strengthen each other’s organisations, and lay the foundations for potential long-term collaboration.

Community Wellbeing
Collaborators Wellbeing Workshops Devon CIC Colebrook SW Memory Matters (Moments Café) Describe your aims and ideas Wellbeing Workshops, Colebrook and Memory Matters will

PREP21
Collaborators Sky Space Team Development CIC Diversity Business Incubator CIC Being in Circle CIC Trauma Informed Network Briefly describe your project. The PREP21 Collective

Queer District Collective
Collaborators · Farleys Food Co-op · Take A Part CIO · BigUps Signs & Graphics · LOCI Collective · Minerva Clothing & Cafe · The

Ptown Radio
Collaborators Ptown Radio DBI Plymouth Hope Describe your aims & ideas We are PTown Radio, a community interest company. Our slogan, ‘bringing communities together’ is

Waste… of Our Time
Collaborators ● Precious Plastic Plymouth & Tavistock ● Plymouth Scrapstore ● Environment Plymouth Describe your aims and ideas Judy Harington and Kate Crawfurd have

Storyteller Pilot Festival
A festival to be held at community venues around Plymouth; giving local performance artists the opportunity to explore Storytelling through comedy, spoken word, music, film, photography, food, sport, and other creative disciplines.

We Tell Your Story
Note: We Tell Your Story was awarded POP Collectives funding in January 2022 and is now applying for a second grant. Collaborators ● The Hundred

Plymouth Mental Health Recovery & Empowerment Group
Collaborators ● Livewell South West ● Heads Count (Colebrook South West) ● Hope in the Heart CIC ● Devon Mind ● Marbles Lost and Found

Refugee Resettlement Support Fund
Collaborators OHOB – Open Hearts Open Borders START – Students and Refugees Together DCRS – Devon and Cornwall Refugee Support Describe your aims and ideas

Community Food Cycle
Collaborators Bikespace CIC Drift Advice Four Greens Community Trust Collective’s aims and ideas Our idea is to create a pilot project that will deliver food

Re-opening Welcome Hall
This Collectives project has now come to an end. It was not possible for an asset transfer for Welcome Hall to take place at the
Life After Lockdown
Collaborators ● Wellbeing Workshops Devon CIC ● Colebrook SW ● Memory Matters CIC Collective’s aims and ideas Wellbeing Workshops, Colebrook and Memory Matters will

Chaddlewood Art and Nature Subway Project
Crowdfunder page Advise or comment on this Collective Plymouth Chronicle article Collaborators Mrs Murals Pollenize CIC Art & Energy CIC Clean Our Patch CIC Collective’s

Mindful Art Club
Note: Mindful Art Club was awarded POP Collectives funding in July 2021 and June 2022. Collaborators Mindful Art Club Real Ideas Organisation Marbles Lost and

Visual Arts Plymouth
Creating a supported platform to offer more opportunities to grassroots artists in Plymouth.

Big Sis Girl Empowerment Collective
Equipping tweens with skills and knowledge for a lifelong relationship with their bodies and emotions.

Celebrating STEAM in the South West
We celebrate Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths in the Southwest of England to promote individual and community well-being.
Social Isolation Forum
Forum of organisations concerned with issues of social isolation and loneliness in Plymouth. Aim is to raise awareness of the complexity of these issues.
Kintsugi Radio
A community internet radio station to create opportunities for people with disabilities.

Plymouth Eco Collective
Promotes organisations working collaboratively to create a greener, cleaner more sustainable Plymouth.
Mayflower Drama Project
Increasing knowledge and awareness of the story behind the Mayflower journey

Environment Plymouth Green Recovery Plan
Leading the city’s green interests within the community.

The Radical Minski Nudge++ Collective
A grassroots ethical retail shop – engaging people with ideas to minimise their impact on our planet.

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

Wildlife Corridor Makers
Briefly describe your project Working inclusively with our community to develop a wildlife corridor in the heart of Stoke. During the first round, POP members

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

No Shame Campaign
Collaborators Hidden Lives Marbles Lost and Found Neonatural Online Advice Session: 23 January from 2pm Briefly describe your project The campaign is about bridging the gap between different

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

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

The Storytelling Collective
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.

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

A Timeline of Change
Collaborators Friends of Central Park Karen Moore History Old Plymouth Society Fotonow Briefly describe your project Plymouth’s Central Park has seen huge changes in its 90-year

Front Page / Back Page / Centrefold
Open Collective page Collaborators CAMP CIC Flock South West Visual Arts Plymouth During the first round, POP members will be asked to advise you. What

Confidence Booster Workshops
Collaborators ● Art Craft & Giggles CIC ● Wellbeing Workshop Devon CIC ● All-Inclusive Textiles ● Kristina Coles Fashion & Textile Designer Briefly describe your

BuryTheGiant.Club
Collaborators Art & Energy Fotonow Plymouth Energy Community Plymouth Culture Briefly describe your project We want to create an online community space which inspires creativity

A.R.E HOME
Collaborators Devon and Cornwall Refugee Support Livewell Southwest PATH Provide Devon Migrant Legal Project Briefly describe your project The purpose is to assist asylum seekers

Messages from the HeARTlands
Collaborators · Hope in the Heart CIC · The Intersection · Real Ideas Organisation Briefly describe your project The recent Messages from the Heart pilot

New4You Youth
Collaborators New4You Youth Ivybridge Youth for Christ The Oasis Project Briefly describe your project At New4You Youth we facilitate a safe space for young people

Keyham Green Places Food Bank
Collaborators Keyham Green Places Horticultural Therapy Trust Onward Community Group Ltd Briefly describe your project This project will help us continue to provide a foodbank

Culture Connectors Collective
Collaborators ● Fotonow CIC ● Plymouth City Council ● Plymouth Arts Cinema Briefly describe your project The Culture Connectors Collective will welcome young people engaged

Freedom Community Festival Group
Collaborators ● Freedom Community Festival Group ● Clean Our Patch ● Wonder Zoo Briefly describe your project Freedom community festival began back in 2000 and

The Climate Hub
Collaborators The Climate Hub Climate Action Plymouth Climate Clarity Briefly describe your project Creating a welcoming and collaborative space to engage, educate, and empower the

Trauma Informed Collective
Collaborators Viewhear CIC Operation Emotion Trauma Informed Network Plymouth Describe your aims & ideas This partnership will tackle issues around trauma, how this affects people

11 WonderZoo Events with Omnium Radio & Shekinah Mutley
WonderZoo, Shekinah and Omnium Radio will be working together to deliver events in Stonehouse and Mutley that foster community cohesion and individual empowerment. We will create 11 events over the year, including 3 WonderZoo performance gigs, 3 Adelaide Park fun days, 4 Safer Streets Workshops and 1 Shekinah Christmas Show. Working together, we will strengthen each other’s organisations, and lay the foundations for potential long-term collaboration.

Community Wellbeing
Collaborators Wellbeing Workshops Devon CIC Colebrook SW Memory Matters (Moments Café) Describe your aims and ideas Wellbeing Workshops, Colebrook and Memory Matters will

PREP21
Collaborators Sky Space Team Development CIC Diversity Business Incubator CIC Being in Circle CIC Trauma Informed Network Briefly describe your project. The PREP21 Collective

Queer District Collective
Collaborators · Farleys Food Co-op · Take A Part CIO · BigUps Signs & Graphics · LOCI Collective · Minerva Clothing & Cafe · The

Ptown Radio
Collaborators Ptown Radio DBI Plymouth Hope Describe your aims & ideas We are PTown Radio, a community interest company. Our slogan, ‘bringing communities together’ is

Waste… of Our Time
Collaborators ● Precious Plastic Plymouth & Tavistock ● Plymouth Scrapstore ● Environment Plymouth Describe your aims and ideas Judy Harington and Kate Crawfurd have

Storyteller Pilot Festival
A festival to be held at community venues around Plymouth; giving local performance artists the opportunity to explore Storytelling through comedy, spoken word, music, film, photography, food, sport, and other creative disciplines.

We Tell Your Story
Note: We Tell Your Story was awarded POP Collectives funding in January 2022 and is now applying for a second grant. Collaborators ● The Hundred

Plymouth Mental Health Recovery & Empowerment Group
Collaborators ● Livewell South West ● Heads Count (Colebrook South West) ● Hope in the Heart CIC ● Devon Mind ● Marbles Lost and Found

Refugee Resettlement Support Fund
Collaborators OHOB – Open Hearts Open Borders START – Students and Refugees Together DCRS – Devon and Cornwall Refugee Support Describe your aims and ideas

Community Food Cycle
Collaborators Bikespace CIC Drift Advice Four Greens Community Trust Collective’s aims and ideas Our idea is to create a pilot project that will deliver food

Re-opening Welcome Hall
This Collectives project has now come to an end. It was not possible for an asset transfer for Welcome Hall to take place at the
Life After Lockdown
Collaborators ● Wellbeing Workshops Devon CIC ● Colebrook SW ● Memory Matters CIC Collective’s aims and ideas Wellbeing Workshops, Colebrook and Memory Matters will

Chaddlewood Art and Nature Subway Project
Crowdfunder page Advise or comment on this Collective Plymouth Chronicle article Collaborators Mrs Murals Pollenize CIC Art & Energy CIC Clean Our Patch CIC Collective’s

Mindful Art Club
Note: Mindful Art Club was awarded POP Collectives funding in July 2021 and June 2022. Collaborators Mindful Art Club Real Ideas Organisation Marbles Lost and

Visual Arts Plymouth
Creating a supported platform to offer more opportunities to grassroots artists in Plymouth.

Big Sis Girl Empowerment Collective
Equipping tweens with skills and knowledge for a lifelong relationship with their bodies and emotions.

Celebrating STEAM in the South West
We celebrate Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths in the Southwest of England to promote individual and community well-being.
Social Isolation Forum
Forum of organisations concerned with issues of social isolation and loneliness in Plymouth. Aim is to raise awareness of the complexity of these issues.
Kintsugi Radio
A community internet radio station to create opportunities for people with disabilities.

Plymouth Eco Collective
Promotes organisations working collaboratively to create a greener, cleaner more sustainable Plymouth.
Mayflower Drama Project
Increasing knowledge and awareness of the story behind the Mayflower journey

Environment Plymouth Green Recovery Plan
Leading the city’s green interests within the community.

The Radical Minski Nudge++ Collective
A grassroots ethical retail shop – engaging people with ideas to minimise their impact on our planet.