An extra £53 million has been spent buying goods and services from local suppliers after a promise made by the Plymouth Procurement Forum to buy local.
Plymouth City Council and Plymouth Community Homes spent over £65 million with local small and medium sized business in 2012/13 compared with £12.3 million the previous year, delivering an increase of almost £53 million.
It’s a summer packed full of fun for families in North Prospect.
Fun days and trips for all ages are being organised by Plymouth City Council and its partners working in the community.
Cabinet Member for Co-operatives and Community Development, Councillor Chris Penberthy said: “Six weeks of school holidays can be a long time for parents to keep their children and teenagers...
Plymouth City Council has selected the Zebra Collective to work with voluntary and community organisations in the city to help them make their voices heard.
Zebra will support grassroots groups in neighbourhoods including tenants groups, residents’ associations, neighbourhood watches and Timebanks and help ensure community organisations can get involved in making key decisions in the...
Plans are being drawn up to refurbish play parks and open spaces, create a multi-use games area and a skate park for Whitleigh.
Local residents have been working co-operatively with Plymouth City Council and the Whitleigh Partnership to bring together ideas for how to spend a million pounds. The grant from the Big Lottery Fund has to be used to fund resident led and sustainable...
How can we culture culture? That’s the key question being asked at a special event open to everyone in Plymouth.
As Plymouth heads towards the Mayflower 2020 celebrations Council Leader Tudor Evans is inviting residents to have their say on the future of culture in the city. An Open Space event is being held at Plymouth Guildhall on Friday 19 July. It is an opportunity to talk about...
Councillor Brian Vincent, Cabinet member for Environment and Sustainability, Plymouth City Council and Traci Lewis, Food Plymouth Coordinator, Soil Association had a successful trip to St Brieuc in France last week, meeting with local partners and elected representatives as part of the a programme to increase local food sales within Plymouth.
Almost a quarter of bar and pub staff served alcohol to an underage person in an operation carried out by Plymouth City Council’s Public Protection Service and Devon and Cornwall Police.
Over 107 premises were visited as part of a joint operation to see how licensed premises such as off-licenses, pubs, clubs and bars managed their business. Of those, 27 were issued fixed penalty...
Plymouth’s pioneering ‘workskills boot camps’ are now open once more to young people looking to get into work.
The scheme which was launched by Plymouth City Council and run by Whiz Kidz, a non-profit making organisation set up to improve the employability skills of young people, has been hailed as a success after returning impressive results last year.
Plymouth is to benefit from £660,000 of government funding to help refurbish and bring back into use empty properties and commercial premises.
Plymouth City Council supported the national housing charity Chapter 1 in the bid for the money which will be used to create a scheme of 30 affordable homes.
Cabinet member for Finance whose portfolio includes strategic housing,...
Plymouth City Council is supporting the campaign which reminds everyone of their role in setting a good example to children and helping to keep them safe.
The Child Accident Prevention Trust's annual awareness campaign starts on 24 June 2013.
A themed bus will in Place de Brest in the city centre from 10am to 5pm on Friday 28 June. There will be advice from agencies in the city...
