Exciting Entrepreneurship Collaboration with the Nottingham Business School
Pulp Friction has had the exciting opportunity to work with students from the Nottingham Business School (NBS) at Nottingham Trent University. This collaboration saw a group of enthusiastic students from the ‘Entrepreneurship Projects’ course study our charity, and develop entrepreneurial ideas for both the short and long-term growth of Pulp Friction. On February 18th, a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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!
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 […]