We solve problems & create opportunity
From supporting young people find work and develop their skills to helping start-ups and enterprises thrive, we work to solve problems and create positive and lasting social change.
Through our buildings and support we provide space to work and learn, to running informative workshops, activities, events and festivals. We look to drive discussion and champion new ideas to do good.
Real Ideas Organisation Devonport Guildhall, Ker Street, Devonport, Plymouth, PL1 4EL
Real Ideas Organisation Ocean Studios, The Factory Cooperage, Royal William Yard, Plymouth PL1 3RP
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Plymouth College of Art is a specialist, independent art college supporting a community of artists from the creative industries. With a heritage dating back 150 years, the college offers a unique environment that combines traditional techniques with up-to-the-minute thinking and cutting-edge digital facilities, such as the globally connected Fab Lab. We are home to a dynamic, cross-disciplinary community of makers and thinkers for whom making is as important as reading and writing, and where the purpose of learning is inseparable from that of living your life. We believe that high-quality education for life in contemporary arts practice is the creative catalyst for personal, professional and cultural transformation.
https://www.plymouthart.ac.uk/
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Advancing knowledge, transforming lives.
We will be a broad-based, research-intensive university, open to all who can benefit from a University of Plymouth education, and delivering excellent interdisciplinary research, experiential education and civic engagement.
We want to maintain and build upon our pre-eminence internationally for contributions to the sustainability of marine and maritime environments and societies. The marine environment is integral to the well-being of life on Earth. Covering 70% of the Earth’s surface, the marine environment is home to 95% of the Earth’s species. Humans are dependent on the oceans more than ever before – for food, oxygen, water, mineral, sustainable energy. Yet vast areas remain unexplored. Mega cities of the world are on coasts, capitalising on economic and trade benefits but impacting on, and vulnerable to, marine environments and climate change impacts.
University of Plymouth Plymouth PL4 8AA
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Green Minds aims to put nature at the heart of our decision making and inspire a new wave of citywide investment in nature based solutions.
This means fundamentally challenging our existing attitudes and behaviours towards nature: how we think about it; how we engage with it; how we work with it.
Aims
Over the next 3 years, Green Minds will test a broader, systems approach to delivering nature-based solutions in Plymouth (2020-2023). From the learning we will develop a kitbag of resources, tools and evidence for sharing more widely.
Working in partnership Green Minds will
- Inspire people to connect with nature through delivering rewilding and nature-based projects on the ground that increase habitats and species diversity
- Experiment with different delivery and management approaches that support community stewardship and green enterprise, creating ‘green mindsets’
- Use science and creative digital tools to make nature visible and exciting
- Evaluate our impact and communicate what we learn in innovative and creative ways
https://greenmindsplymouth.com/
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Tamar Grow Local is a ‘not for profit’ Community Interest Company (CIC) set up on co-operative principles for the benefit of the community.
This structure allows trading and has the ability to create a number of more specialist co-operative ventures under its umbrella to meet demand.
The area covered is the Tamar Valley, which includes the market towns of Tavistock, Launceston, Callington and Saltash.
Unit 20 Pannier Market, Callington, Cornwall, PL17 7AD
Tel: (01579) 208412 Email:
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Food Plymouth is the City’s recognised Local Food Partnership
A ‘central connecting hub’ for all food-related matters in the City.
Our multi-sector award winning partnership, founded in 2010, comprises a diverse mix of agencies, organisations, businesses, community groups and individual citizens, all working together to actively promote and lobby for healthy, sustainable and affordable food as a driver for positive change.
The collaborative work of the Food Plymouth partnership is expressed through the six strands of our action plan, each of which focuses on transforming a different aspect of our food system. The six themes are illustrated in our symbolic lighthouse diagram, detail for each theme can be found on the Actions page.
The Food Plymouth partnership and network is facilitated and resourced by Food Plymouth CIC
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Plymouth has been a Fairtrade City since 2004
Fairtrade Plymouth aims to unite all those working towards Plymouth's commitment to Fairtrade...whether you buy or consume Fairtrade products, offer them to your staff in your canteens or sell them...either in supermarkets or in local food outlets. By doing so you are helping to ensure the livelihoods and wellbeing of all those who grow and produce the products around the world. You are helping to ensure access to education, health services, water, legal representation and a fair wage amongst other things. Just remember when you pay for something you are "voting for the world you want". Fairtrade Plymouth is working on an Action Plan for the next few years and will be applying to renew the city's Fairtrade. Please be a part of it !
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Our vision is of a world where creative energy drives environmental change
Our mission is to provide a tool for local recycling and creative engagement to empower the community to live sustainably.
This excellent idea comes from Precious Plastic, a global community, who in the true spirit of social enterprise, put their idea out there for us all to use. You can view all the designs, products and community here: https://preciousplastic.com/ . Basically, it involves recycling plastic by shredding it, heating it and remoulding it into new useful/artistic creations. The plans for building the machines are open source and they are simple and quite cheap to build. We plan to use this to recycle plastic which is otherwise difficult to recycle and reduce transport and other associated costs by recycling locally. We think of this as a fun project to bring the community together, engage with recycling and plastic waste issues and get creative. Even better, this process can create high quality plastic products which can be sold.
https://www.katecrawfurd.co.uk/ppp
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Empowering our community to create a fair, affordable, zero carbon energy system with local people at its heart.
We are a charity and a social enterprise, with a cooperative ethos, made up of members who want a better future for our community and planet.
https://plymouthenergycommunity.com/
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The Heart of the South West Local Enterprise Partnership – covering Devon, Plymouth, Somerset and Torbay – is one of the 38 LEPs in England. We are a business-led partnership between the private sector, local authorities, universities and colleges.
Covering Devon, Plymouth, Somerset and Torbay, the Heart of the South West’s £35bn economy and 1.8m population is equivalent to that of a major UK city. Our purpose is to lead and influence economic growth, and to increase productivity and prosperity across the Heart of the South West area.
Our LEP is constituted as a CIC (Community Interest Company), and is overseen by a board made up of private and public sector members. We operate under a strict Assurance Framework
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