Growing
- Gardening group
- Friends of Blockhouse Park
- Stoke in Bloom
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
Stoke Changes – Bringing Love to Stoke
Stoke Changes – The Village Garden
Stoke in Bloom – Eurovision
Stoke in Bloom – Home Grower
Stoke in Bloom – Outside of the norm!
Stoke in Bloom 2023 – Info
Stoke in Bloom is back for 2023
Bloom is Back for 2023! Ready them seed packets and upcycle them pots as we want to hear from you. 2022 Bloom was our first seed in the soil, and what a success it was! Stoke you really showed us the growing power of our community and we even got and outstanding from...
Community Growers Award 2023
Stoke in Bloom 2023 – SIGN UP HERE
If you would like to be the first to hear about our exciting plans for Stoke in Bloom 2023 register here! You can see pictures from Stoke in Bloom 2022 here.
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...
Stoke in Bloom – the Album
Our first attempt and we are super proud of all the enthusiasm that has come our way as local people have decided that gardening is for them! Photo album is where to go to see our slideshow of stories and photos of what we have been doing in the garden this year....
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...
Stoke in Bloom 2022
We are all growing so why not celebrate this with some friendly competition and show just how amazing our neighbourhood is! So, what’s the plan?
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...
Devon Rewilding
The Village Hub was successful in getting some Green Minds Funding for supporting community business type ideas in nature in Plymouth. Being a community business in its truest form - ie we are a community in a community doing community work - has meant that we have...
Reclaiming the ground
IN very early Spring before lockdown even started, I decided to make a start on clearing part of the derelict allotment site adjacent to Blockhouse Park, on the steep slopes of the North East, just down from the old demolished Scout Hut. I started by removing the...
Overgrown space in Blockhouse Park
What do you do with an overgrown space in a disused part of a city park? Wait and watch? Plan and act? Leave it as it is? As residents and advocates for being in and protecting green spaces it seemed most logical to start planning. But what would the plan be and why...
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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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