Activities
Blockhouse Folk: Past, Present and Future
Blockhouse Folk: Past, Present and Future was a two year project by The Village Hub to uncover and celebrate social and natural heritage in our neighbourhood – made possible with funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The idea is to connect past, present and...
Join the Village Show at the Stoke Village Fun Day 2025!
Support Our Crowdfunder!
The count down to the Stoke Village Fun Day is on! Put Sunday 20th July from 11am-4pm in the diary and join us for a day of fun! But...
National Lottery Report Autumn 2024
Thank you to The National Lottery Community Fund
It's a year since we had the news that the National Lottery Community Fund Awarded us funding for 4 years but what have we been up to in the year? Have a read of our report and find out. Kim Armstrong the Funding Officer form The National Lottery Community Fund...
Plymouth Community Events 2023: A Review
With thanks to Plymouth Octopus: POP, we had three of our events team up for a collaborative project. Here is the outcome to that project.
Happy New Year
Climate Fresk
Local resident Sjoerd from Climate Clarity led us carefully through The Climate Fresk - so we could play together to learn more about how our climate system works! The Climate Fresk is a 3-hour interactive workshop, based around a card game that we could play...
Rag Rug Workshop
Over the next few weeks, we'll be learning about how to make our own rag rugs, and work on a collaborative project together. Barbara Hampson from Glad Rags will be teaching us the skill of making a rag rug using proddy and hooking techniques. This is a FREE four week...
Bronze Age Cups Workshop & Picnic
Travel back in time to make cups the way our Bronze Age ancestors would! We joined Angie Wikenden (potter, educator and experimental archaeologist) to learn how to make and fire Bronze Age ceramic cups from scratch. Using pre-historic techniques, we will learn about...
Stoke Saplings Forest Club
Artist Rebecca Begley-Smith is very excited to bring nature learning and artistic fun filled sessions up to Blockhouse Park this summer. Every Wednesday morning through August, we focused on a different nature subject, where we learned and then had fun making. Each...
Ceramic Signs For Blockhouse Park
Come and help us design & make ceramic signs for Blockhouse Park! We're working with local residents & artists "In The Making" (Maia & Tressa) to design and make a new set of ceramic signs for Blockhouse Park. In The Making have been working with our...
Sun Printing Workshop
We joined photographers, educators and nature enthusiasts Jess and Emma to explore the traditional technique of cyanotype sun printing - one of the earliest forms of photo print making that produces prints in a distinctive dark greenish-blue. By using found objects,...
Sunset Screening
We have done our FIRST EVER outdoor screening of short videos, animations & sounds in Blockhouse Park! Local residents, friends and people from further afield joined us for a lo-fi outdoor screening under the stars. We watched and listened to a selection of short...
Natural Colour Workshop
We have been exploring the power of natural colour using plants and flowers sourced from our surroundings!! Artist, dyer and grower, Ffion Taverner showed us the ancient Japanese technique of Hapa Zome (hammering plant material on cloth) based on leaf printing, and we...
Sound Foraging Walk
Let's explore the flavours, smells, sights, sounds and natural environment of Blockhouse Park!! We joined Tess Wilmot (permaculture teacher and expert wild food forager) and Jodie Saunders (musician and sound enthusiast) for a guided foraging/listening walk around...
How To Bury The Giant: Create Your Own Miniature Mossy World
We learned how to build our own terrariums / miniature mossy worlds!! We invited Art and Energy (artists, thinkers, makers and tinkerers responding to the climate emergency) to lead us on a stroll around Blockhouse park, exploring the world through an energy lens,...
Sunset Salsa – Blockhouse Park
This weekend, we have been celebrating Latin culture and music in Blockhouse Park. Misael from MiSalsaCubana guided us skilfully through the basics of Salsa & Bachata in a big dance group at the very top of the park!! Even the most reluctant dancers joined in to...
History from the Crowd
May is History Month in Plymouth. Established by the Plymouth Heritage Network and The Box, we were offered the chance to run an exhibition as part of the festival. We collected bits and pieces from local people – school reports from the 1950s, a surviving air raid...
Culture Club – JarSquad Take Over
JarSquad did a special "take over" day at Culture Club this month, and hosted a co-learning Assembly where we made pickles and fermented foods inspired by recipes from around the world! Carmen, Tess & Rachel shared the processes they use at JarSquad, including...
Foraging Walk in Kingsand
The Village Hub members went on a special foraging walk in Kingsand is a fantastic opportunity to learn more about seasonality, wild food, and other edible sea plants! We were guided by The Family Foraging Kitchen to learn more about plants, seaweeds and other wild...
Visit to Devon Sculpture Park
We went on a fact finding trip to learn about rewilding in other settings and bring the information back to Blockhouse Park! Here are some photos from our visit This ArtGoSee was supported by the Growing The Village Hub project (in...
Culture Club – Beltane Foraging Walk & Workshop
We're so pleased to have Mariam & Gabriele from Totnes Community Herbal lead a Beltane herbal foraging walk around Blockhouse Park. This month at Culture Club we have been celebrating Beltane (or Beáltaine - pronounced Bee-yowl-tan-eh, if you are Irish!) - a...
Flax Corn Dolly Making
This week we joined Vicky Putler (who runs The Flax Project) to help build an oversized Corn Dolly made of flax straw on Blockhouse Park. The making took place in Stoke Youth and Community Centre and outside in Blockhouse Park. Everyone who wanted to could have a go...
Block Printing Workshop
Community members Vicky Pulter and Farrah Seyedi led a Block Printing Workshop at The Village Hub. Block printing is a method of printing onto textiles. We carved the blocks to leave only the pattern we wanted to print, and then inked up the blocks to transfer the...
Culture Club – Plate Making
We got together to make ceramic pottery plates for our upcoming Community Feasts. Rachel and Haidee shared the skills they had learned from Tweeny (who runs The Pottery at Ocean Studios) to support everyone to learn how to make plates from scratch. The Village Hub's...
Stoke Village Window Wanderland 2020
Stoke Village and the surrounding areas were transformed into an outdoor art gallery, with around 45 beautifully decorated windows, as part of the first Stoke Village Window Wanderland. We saw some more incredible windows! You can view the gallery of windows online...
Christmas Time
This year the Stoke Traders and Residents Association (STARS) were kindly donated £1,000 by Cllr Kevin Neil. The Village Hub elves jumped into action to bring some Christmas excitement into Stoke Village! Although we faced many challenges with red-tape (hence no...
Food is for sharing
The Village Hub wanted to tackle the tricky issue of food. How we distribute it, why there is so much excess and waste and hoe we can benefit our communities the best by acting as redistribution centres. Its very much a work of progress and we are learning all the...
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The Village Hub
67 Devonport Road,
Stoke Village,
Plymouth,
PL3 4DL.
Opening Times
Monday - Thursday- 10am - 12noon
Friday - 10am - 12noon AND 1pm - 6pm
"The Village Hub Community Limited" is registered under the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 as a Community Benefit Society, number 8522. Registered on Companies House number RS008522. "The Village hub Community" is a charity for tax purposes in line with Paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 FInance Act 2021. Reference ZD15315. Also registered with Co-Operatives UK.
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