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Safer Stoke – 24th September 2025
SAFER STOKE 24th September 2025 Minutes 1.Welcome and introductions Present: Diane and Jade from The Village Hub Parents of Stoke, Dionne Stoke Damerel Primary Tom, Tim, Martin, Sue and residents (14 people in today) 2 Actions / updates from previous meeting 2.1 Cllr...
AGM MINUTES 2025
Friday 26th September 2025 Present: Director: Karen Pilkington and Diane Flynn plus 45 community members Apologies: Gareth Hart, Mel Tucker, Clive Rowe and Jade Ward Welcome Karen welcomed everyone and listed the apologies from The Directors who were unable to...
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...
Five years old!
Finances 2024 – 2025
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...
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...
The Village Post – Winter 2024
Safer Stoke Meeting Minutes – January 2025
The Village Hub AGM
The Village Hub AGM 7th October 2024 Present Zoe, Gareth, Rev Tim Buckley, Sue Tasker, Jan, Claire, Jen, Oly, Clive, Rahim, Jade, Diane, Karen Joining online Katie, Tom, Max, Vicky Clive gave an introduction and welcome. ACTIVITIES Diane and Jade showed slides about...
National Lottery Report Autumn 2024
Revamped strategy
Finances 2023 – 2024
The Village Hub AGM
The Village Hub AGM 7th October 2024 Present Zoe, Gareth, Rev Tim Buckley, Sue Tasker, Jan, Claire, Jen, Oly, Clive, Rahim, Jade, Diane, Karen Joining online Katie, Tom, Max, Vicky Clive gave an introduction and welcome. ACTIVITIES Diane and Jade showed slides about...
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...
Village Post – Summer 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...
Open Community Meetings
We are attempting to facilitate gatherings of the community where local people can meet those who work in our community (we think of this as Stoke and Morice Town) to share and support each other and those we know who would be deemed vulnerable. The First meeting...
Village Post – Spring 2024
AGM 2023
Accounts 2022 – 2023
This years visitors (2022)
In 2022 The Village Hub recorded 2,100 responses on our ‘check out’ tablet. 833 - Food 397 - Volunteering 273 - Conversations 252 - IT use 127 - Events 92 - Other 45 - Donation 41 - Veg boxes 45 - Financial advice 30 - Referrals 8 - Prescriptions
This months visitors (December)
In December The Village Hub recorded 123 responses on our ‘check out’ tablet. 66 – Food support 18 – Conversations 12 – Use of IT equipment 3 – Financial support 2 -Vegetable box 1 – Referral to another service 1 – Shopping or prescription delivery 27 – Volunteering 4...
National Lottery Evaluation Video
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"...
Proud to be a Co-Op
We have renewed our membership with Cooperatives UK. There are 10 values that all co-ops are based on Caring for others Democracy Equity Equality Honesty Openness Self help Self responsibility Solidarity Social responsibility
Data from Sept 2021 – Sept 2022
Over the past 12 months we have been collecting data from those who have visited The Village Hub. Although not everyone completes the feedback form, much of the data we have collected can be seen below.
Growing The Village Hub – Activity Feedback Responses
Over the combined "Growing The Village Hub" project, made possible through funding from The National Lottery Awards For All, The National Lottery Heritage Fund, and Arts Council England, we have collected a mammoth amount of data! Much of it can be seen below in graph...
The Village Hub Management System
Making decisions in a one-level organisation can be difficult. As such we have produced a management system to help us make decisions.
Growing The Village Hub – Impact Report
Accounts 2021 – 2022
You can also view a financial overview here.
This months visitors (August)
In July The Village Hub recorded 151 responses on our ‘check out’ tablet. 68 – Food support 34 – Volunteering 27 – Conversations 12 – Use of IT equipment 7 – Other 7 – Attending an event 3 – Donation 2 -Vegetable box 2 – Referral to another service 0 – Shopping or...
This months visitors (July)
In July The Village Hub recorded 142 responses on our ‘check out’ tablet. 56 – Food support 34 – Volunteering 22 – Conversations 20 – Use of IT equipment 7 – Other 6 -Vegetable box 2 – Referral to another service 1 – Donation 1 – Shopping or prescription delivery 0 –...
Working “With not For” the communities of Stoke & Morice Town
A mid point evaluation for the National Lottery Community Fund October 2021 - June 2022
This months visitors (June)
In June The Village Hub recorded 138 responses on our ‘check out’ tablet. We are still teaching people how to use the check out tablet, so some of these numbers aren’t truly reflective of our actual visitor numbers. 52 – Food support 30 – Volunteering 19 –...
This months visitors (May)
In May The Village Hub recorded 139 responses on our ‘check out’ tablet. We are still teaching people how to use the check out tablet, so some of these numbers aren’t truly reflective of our actual visitor numbers. 56 – Food support 26 – Use of IT equipment 26 –...
Village Post – Summer 2022
Ownership
One of the key ideals we have in the Village Hub is to do things with not for our community. We want to develop a community that is “co led and co nnected” by the widest participant base possible and not just a few. We felt the danger of a small group making all the...
The thorny issue of food
Food is vital.It’s pretty obvious we need it to survive and some people have much easier access to food than others, especially when you put us in our global setting that witnesses children still starving in the 21st Century. These pictures of families in terrible...
Recruitment – what we learnt
Growing a fledgling organisation is all part of the excitement of learning new stuff. The Village Hub set off from the outset to be non hierarchical, built on relationships and doing things not for our community, so you would have thought it would have been easy to...
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...
Community Voice Interim Report
Evaluation on PCC Household Support Fund 2021/22
Evaluation on PCC Household Support Fund 2021/22 The Village Hub was given £5000 mid December 2021 from Plymouth City Council to support vulnerable people through its activities in its premises on Devonport Road, Stoke. The money was stipulated to be redistributed...
This months visitors (March)
In March The Village Hub recorded 154 responses on our 'check out' tablet. We are still teaching people how to use the check out tablet, so some of these numbers aren't truly reflective of our actual visitor numbers. 56 - Food support 28 - Use of IT equipment 28 -...
We are a Co-op membership cause!
The Village Hub is up for Co-op's membership cause. If you are a Co-op member you can add The Village Hub to your membership profile so your points go toward The Village Hub when your shop in any Co-op. https://membership.coop.co.uk/causes/60257 [video width="480"...
The Village Hub and Take A Part
Recently The Village Hub was successful in getting funding to work in partnership with Take A Part to learn more about how to run a creative community building programme in two neighbourhoods of Plymouth, Stoke and Morice Town. The neighbourhoods are home to a diverse...
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
Creation of The Village Hub
The Stoke Traders and Residents Association (STARS) received £10,000 from the National Lottery Community Fund and the Government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport from their Covid Response Fund in August 2020. We spent it as follows: Items Budgeted...
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...
The Power of words – Autumn/Winter Newsletter
In November 2020, in the midst of the UK's second lockdown, we launched our first ever Newsletter. Funded by the National Lottery Community Fund. We wanted something that could be read offline as well as online, so we had 5000 copies printed and, with the help of...
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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