Community
Community spirit is strong in Stoke and Morice Town, over the last two years we have seen our community pull together to look out for each other. There are small acts of kindness everywhere, with people litter picking, volunteering in The Village Hub and slowly turning our community spaces and park into something we can be proud.
We have also developed partnerships with members of the community – with Sue a local artist leading our Art Group, Sarah is heads up our writing group and Clive is running Squat Theatre in The Village Hub. We are proud that these relationships that have been forged and are keen to work with the community to develop more.
Our aim at The Village Hub is to build on this community Spirit and ensure that everyone takes an active part in where we live – what are you dreams, hopes and aspirations for Stoke and Morice Town? Pop in and chat to us about how together we can make positive impacts to our community and in turn our well being.
- Learning about our art
- Training
- Meetings
- Making friends
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...
Volunteers Wanted!
Be a Star at The Stoke Village Fun Day! Join us for the most vibrant community event of the year! Devonport Road will transform into a lively hub of music, stalls, and joy at The Stoke Village Fun Day, held on Sunday, July 20th, from 11 am to 4 pm. We need...
S.T.A.R’s Update
Subject: The Stoke Traders and Residents (STAR) Association On 26 June 2023 and email was send by Judith Hosking to inform STARS members about an important meeting arranged for 3 July 2023 to discuss the future of this voluntary group. Pre-covid, we were extremely...
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...
Revamped strategy
Online grants search
On this page you can use the Turn2Us grants search tool. Before looking for grants, you can do an online benefits check to make sure you’re claiming what you’re entitled to. Visit the benefit calculator to find out more. This grants search tool is supplied by Turn2us,...
Benefits calculator
The benefits system in England and Wales is often very useful, but it can feel overwhelming. You might be thinking about claiming for the first time, or your circumstances might have changed, or you might want to make sure you’re getting all the support you’re...
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...
2024 Categories
Lift A Slab, supported by BRIC. We recognise that our friends in St Levan suffer with flood waters. This inspired us to create an award for those lifting concrete, tarmac and hard standing areas with a wish to put it back to nature. Express yourself, our community is...
Stoke in Bloom 2024 Launch
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.
Stoke Changes – Bringing Love to Stoke
Stoke Changes – The Village Garden
Photography Census
In January, we started our new Photographic Census project led by Josh Greet (our community photographer) & Haidee Dampney (our community interviewer), which will continue through until August this year. During 2024, we're creating an archive of pictures &...
Village Post – Spring 2024
Happy New Year
Birth of The Village Square
The Community in Stoke and Morice Town has surpassed everyone's expectations by once again delivering what was considered impossible a few short years ago. The toilet block in Stoke Village, closed since February 2020 and long considered an eyesore and scene of anti...
Village Post – Winter 2022
Thank you Co-Op!
You may remember back in January that we were picked as a Co-op membership cause. From being that cause, Co-Op have raised a massive £4,202.35 for us! Here is a video of us saying thank you! [video width="640" height="352"...
Culture Club: Bite-Sized Bazaar
FREE Bring & Share/Swap Culture Club + Market Event where we got together to share, swap and celebrate some great community cooking featuring YUMMY bite-sized finger foods! We tried out a swap and trade system, using tokens, not money in this bazaar event. Some...
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...
Celebrating Lughnasa: Breads ‘Round the World
At this months Culture Club, we invited everyone to Join us to share, swap and eat breads from around the world in this celebration of the traditional harvest season. We tried out a swap and trade system - using tokens, not money, to buy bread. Bread-makers received...
Sarah on Candid Camera
When Sarah, a local resident, first met us she had never performed any of her poetry live.... look at her now! Reading about her beautiful rescue dog, Mickey. DSC_0136 Mickey arrived at Sarah's directly through the Village Hub. We had a new visitor who stopped a...
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...
Drop In – Bunting & Decor Making Workshop
We invited local residents to join us to make up-cycled Outdoor Decor for the Stoke Fun Day (which will happen on 17th July 2022). Using materials that had been donated to us, and bought from Plymouth Play Scrapstore (who salvage materials that would otherwise go to...
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...
Culture Club – Super Stylish Summer Salads & Picnics
We got together to learn how to snap snazzy food photos in our salad-meets-photojournalism Culture Club! Salad isn’t just lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumber...it can be anything! This weekend, we came together to create some beautiful and delicious summer salads and...
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...
Village Post – Summer 2022
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...
Lara’s Story
We first met Lara as an 18 year old. She was remarkable then as she had found us somehow on Facebook and asked could she do some volunteering (pretty impressive reaching out for a typically reserved teenager). It was early days and we had no volunteer forms to fill...
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...
Culture Club – Potluck Feast
We are very excited to have run our first Community Feast at Stoke Youth & Community Centre in Blockhouse Park! This was a great opportunity to get together, share food and good company. There were also be some spring themed arts & crafts activities on hand...
But it’s only the one tree…
Part of the remit of the Hub is to support local people to actively campaign in their area to prevent what they see as poor development. Usually, this kind of activism is reserved for retired politicians and civil servants who have the know how to properly object, but...
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...
Women Civil Engineers
Mary (Molly) Fergusson was born in Stoke, Plymouth on 28 April 1914, living here until she was 10. After moving to York, she was encouraged by her family and school to enter a traditionally male dominated field and graduated from Edinburgh University in 1936 as a...
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...
Village Post – Winter 2021
Thank you Heather!
The Village Hub was delighted to receive a huge donation of £594.69 from Heather, who is supported by a fantastic team of staff from local company Beyond Limits. Heather was able to do a sponsored walk of five miles long, which was a considerable achievement for her....
Village Post – Summer 2021
The Hub has landed
The Village Hub has landed on Devonport Road in Stoke. If you thought it was impossible to make a difference in your local area, you might never expect something as devastating as the Covid crisis to create opportunities for change in your local community. However,...
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Registered Office
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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