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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...

  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...

  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...