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March`s Happenings/Diary

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  March 26 Diary On the 2nd of March, we had three mechanical and electrical engineers at the hub conducting an in-depth study of our facilities. They analysed our current capabilities to produce mechanical and electrical drawings and prepared a report aligning with our sustainability development goals. This was a comprehensive feasibility and practicability engineering study of our utilities, focusing on our sustainability development goals at The Hub and our decarbonization program. The goal was to ensure our future-proofing plans were in line with internationally agreed sustainability standards. It was a productive and informative knowledge-sharing experience for our sustainability team and these qualified engineers. We also met with the Strategic Property Review Department regarding the Enablement Fund. On the 3rd of March, we had a meeting with the district council's participatory budgeting officer about our Soup Night event. Being a Thursday, the hub was fully booked, and som...
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The soup for soup event

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   the soup for soup night      Polmontsoup was a community wealth-building exercise aimed at demonstrating what our community can achieve when good people come together. The hub management wanted to showcase how the soup itself could embody our values. Our sustainability champion emphasised that the ingredients should align with our ethics of "soup with purpose," emphasising the importance of good ingredients for community wealth building, shopping local, and promoting circular economy ambitions.      Shared Futures, based near Manchester but working nationally, granted us £250 to promote Polmont’s ethical participatory budgeting event, Polmontsoup. We decided to use this funding to provide soup for our community in an ethical manner that aligns with the concept of participatory budgeting, which aims to keep the community's wealth serving its members.       Instead of taking the easy route of purchasing mass-produced tins of s...
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February Newsletter

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  February just flew by at the hub.  On Sunday, the 1st of February, the management team was welcomed to a meeting with soup provided by the Quakers. On Wednesday, the 4th of February, Kenny had the Environmental Leadership Lab lunch at the Botanical Gardens, where our sustainability champion met the funders and other groups countrywide looking to network, on environmental and sustainability transition projects. Also on that day, work on the refurbishment of the changing rooms into the new Top Toes Clinic began. This was done over the course of the weekend, and now, a month later, we are awaiting a snagging fix list to be completed  The next day, we had a meeting with the Scottish Book Trust regarding a digital storytelling workshop. We also met with a potential beekeeper and hosted a visit from a photographer. For falkirk districts tennants magazine  for a magazine publication set for April, (this is ongoing )  The weekend starting the 7th of February marked th...
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Online Feature for Social Enterprise

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  SOCIAL ENTERPRISE SCOTLAND Polmont community hub is a registered member of social enterprise scotland, Who are an independent, membership-led organisation, which has united and represented social enterprises for more than 20 years. As the representative body for social enterprises in Scotland, we are growing a collaborative movement so that all social enterprises have a stronger collective voice. Social enterprises are innovative, independent businesses that exist to deliver a specific social and/or environmental mission. Their profits are reinvested in their mission. Social enterprise is a dynamic, ethical and more sustainable way of doing business. There are more than 6,000 social enterprises in Scotland, generating more than £2.3 billion for Scotland’s economy, and supporting more than 88,000 jobs. PCH will be featuring in the next meet up for the Community Spaces Network & the Health & Wellbeing Network  which will take place online Tuesday 17 th of March, 10:30...
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Update on Polmontsoup

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  Fun Soup Event 21st of March 2026 Polmont SOUP will be a way of promoting, raising funds, and celebrating great ideas to build a bigger, better, stronger, supportive community. We will come together and enjoy a hot bowl of soup, some entertainment and help a community idea blossom. What is PolmontSOUP? Polmont SOUP will be a way of promoting, raising funds, and celebrating the great ideas that are building our bigger, better, stronger, supportive community. We will come together enjoy a hot bowl of soup, some entertainment and help a community idea blossom. Our community music lead is going to get back to us about the entertainment, as he may make that one of the projects up for funding at the event How it will work  PolmontSOUP will bring people together to make good things happen in our community. PCHub volunteers will host this form of community crowdfunding event to support new ideas and exciting projects in our community. Everyone is invited, you’ll receive tasty soup, ...
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