Press Release: Pulp Friction Awarded Garden At RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2024
Pulp Friction has been awarded a garden at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show! East Midlands-based Community Interest Company (CIC), Pulp Friction, is heading to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in May 2024 to demonstrate the power of inclusivity through gardening. The ‘Growing Skills Garden’ is one of the popular All About Plants category exhibits and […]
Christmas 2023 Crafts!
We’ve been busy making and baking, ready for Christmas! From chocolate wreaths, to chocolate marshmallow sticks, we did it all! We’ve made hot chocolate reindeer packs complete with marshmallows and antlers, and decorated our Community Cafe with lots of homemade crafts!
May Plant Sale Success
On Thursday 4th May we held a plant sale at our Community Cafe at Bestwood Park Church.
We’re working in Loxley House!
In partnership with food redistribution charity, FareShare Midlands, our Members are gaining valuable work experience in Nottingham City Council’s Loxley House kitchen! At Loxley House, our Members help the FareShare team peel, chop and prepare surplus food ready for it to be cooked into nutritious meals. The meals made at Loxley House are then distributed […]
Random Acts of Kindness!
Random Acts of Kindness Day is celebrated nationally on February 17th with the goal to make kindness the norm all year round. We decided to mark the day this year by offering the local community the chance to enjoy a free warm drink at our Community Cafe in Bestwood. Our Members designed some drink vouchers […]
Social Supermarket
At Nottinghamshire’s Joint Police and Fire Headquarters, we have set up a brand new Social Supermarket! What is a Social Supermarket? A social supermarket, or pantry, offers good quality food, at a discounted price. Our Pulp Friction social supermarket is also helping to protect the environment by saving surplus food from going to waste. This […]
Try it Tuesdays!
We were lucky to be involved with a fun, new initiative ‘Try it Tuesdays’. Throughout January and February, we worked alongside SongTime CIC to offer a 10-week series of fun activity sessions at Bestwood Park Church. Each week we offered a different activity for members of the public to get involved in. Activities such as […]
Plant Harvest – Sat 12th March
9 – 12.00pm: Fire and Pulp Friction Staff/Members 12 – 2.30pm: General Public Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service are leaving their headquarters in Bestwood Country Park this year, and we have some beautiful plants in the grounds. We are offering people the opportunity to bring your own fork, dig out the plants and make a […]
2022 Upcoming Milestones.
In the new year, Pulp Friction’s main operating base is moving from Bestwood Fire and Rescue Service Headquarters (NFRS HQ) to Bestwood Park Community Church (BPCC) Community Café due to the closure of NFRS HQ. We have worked with Bestwood Park Church for over 4 years now. Our Kitchen Manager Teresa works at the church […]
Dimensions Recognition 2019 Leaders Award
Dimensions is an organisation that supports people with learning disabilities and autism to have a louder voice, choice and control in their lives. In 2019, Jessie Carter-Kay was recognised by Dimensions, as an inspirational ‘Learning Disability and Autism Leader’ in the category of Local Communities, for being the driving force behind Pulp Friction. To read more […]