We’re Shortlisted for National Diversity Award for Disability Inclusion
Pulp Friction CIO, has been named a finalist in the prestigious 2025 National Diversity Awards, shortlisted for the Community Organisation Award: Disability category – sponsored by HSBC UK This honour places Pulp Friction among 125 finalists selected from over 85,000 nominations, highlighting their tireless commitment to equality, inclusion, and community empowerment. Founded to create opportunities […]
Popular Nottingham Charity, Pulp Friction, Wins Prestigious National Award at the 2025 Learning Disability and Autism Awards
Pulp Friction’s work has been recognised nationally by winning a Learning Disability and Autism Leaders Award, celebrating their work in the local community. The awards are hosted by Dimensions, one of the UK’s largest not-for-profit organisations supporting people with Learning Disabilities, Autism, behaviours of distress, and complex health needs. Held annually, The Leaders Awards are […]
Our 2024 Christmas video!
We are delighted to share this Christmas animation work with you! Over the last 6 weeks at Pulp Friction, several of our members have worked with Jim from Inspire to produce their own short animation clips! Jim kindly edited our clips altogether to make a fabulous 2024 Christmas video. Jim helped to choose the backing […]
National Insurance Increase and Its Impact on Social Care
At Pulp Friction, we are seriously concerned about the plans to increase employer National Insurance contributions in 2025. This decision could have a devastating effect on the social care sector, and we need to talk about it. What’s Happening? The government’s decision to raise National Insurance contributions for employers will mean higher costs for organisations […]
ITV Visited our Chelsea Flower Show Garden!
We were delighted to welcome the ITV News team to our ‘Growing Skills’ Chelsea Flower Show Garden earlier this month! During their visit, we were able to share all about our exciting journey to reach the prestigious gardening show, highlighting the hard work and dedication from our Members that went into preparing for the event. […]
International Day of Charity 2024
September 5th is International Day of Charity! The International Day of Charity is celebrated every year on the 5th of September, the anniversary of the death of Mother Teresa, who was famously selfless in her work and charitable giving. Website, County and Town House have shared a brilliant article about ways in which you can […]
The New Home of our Chelsea Flower Show Garden
Following our exciting Chelsea Flower Show experience, you may be wondering what happened to our beautiful garden… Well, we’ll tell you! When the show ended, we had just three days to pack up and get everything moving back out! So, our project and design team sprang into action once again — this time to bring […]
The Pulp Friction CIC Case Study – Uni of Leeds
We are one of the University of Leeds’ 10 Place-based Food Initiatives Case Studies Together with The Food Foundation and Consumer Data Research Centre, the University of Leeds completed a case study with Pulp Friction CIC and our Members. The team at the University of Leeds are researching the impact of social eating and how […]
We won the 2024 RHS People’s Choice Award!
Pulp Friction and Dutch Landscape Architects win the RHS People’s Choice Award and a Silver-Gilt Medal at the Chelsea Flower Show! Alongside designers Will and Tin-Tin from Dutch Landscape Architects, we were awarded a silver-gilt medal for our Growing Skills Garden at the start of the Show, and were later announced as the winners of […]
Press Release: Going for Gold at this Year’s Chelsea Flower Show by Using Recycled Materials and Growing Edible Plants.
Pulp Friction CIC is a Nottinghamshire-based social enterprise that supports Learning Disabled and Autistic adults to gain valuable employability and life skills. Through multiple catering and gardening projects spanning the city and county, Pulp Friction’s Members are able to develop their work-readiness and social independence skills in a safe and friendly environment. This year’s RHS […]