S&C contributor and Portsmouth social entrepreneur, Sally Callow, is looking for volunteers for her social enterprise, Stripy Lightbulb CIC, which provides training to professionals about ME/CFS. Stripy Lightbulb CIC is a Portsmouth-based social enterprise on [… read more ]
Community Reporter Rosy Bremer speaks to Connie Fenner, one of the organisers of the Package Free Larder, about their crowdfunding campaign to open Portsmouth’s first plastic-free shop. Good news; genuine, honest, plastic-free good news. The [… read more ]
Wild Thyme Wholefoods are well known across Portsmouth as Southsea’s go-to place for vegan, natural and organic food, but less well known is that it’s a worker co-operative. Co-operative member Stuart Mills reports. Note: This [… read more ]
Emily Priest reports on a local social enterprise that teaches practical cookery skills, while bringing people together to support each other. Having a good meal every day is something most of us take for granted. [… read more ]
Portsmouth social enterprise Company of Makers have won a place in a national crowdfunding competition to raise money for sewing equipment that will enable them to help Armed Forces veterans and their families make the [… read more ]
Change is afoot at S&C. Editor in Chief Sarah Cheverton explains what we’ll be up to in 2017 and how you can get involved in our continuing mission to #ReclaimTheNews. Here at S&C, we are [… read more ]
At the end of September, education charity Think Global brought together a range of organisations based in Portsmouth and beyond, to discuss the potential of ‘social and solidarity economy’ for transforming local communities around the [… read more ]
Sue Stokes, founder of Southsea Greenhouse Community Co-operative, explores the social revolution at the heart of community groups and the challenges involved in keeping the dream of a caring, sharing Portsmouth alive. When I left [… read more ]
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