Community Business Festival 2020
#CBfestival
An online festival celebrating incredible communities across the country
We hosted a free, inspirational, online festival featuring live fitness and wellbeing sessions, and cookery demonstrations, through to behind-the-scenes tours and panel discussions exploring how communities have saved much-loved local buildings like pubs, swimming baths and old industrial buildings, to the benefit of local people!
Thursday 13th August
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8.00
8.30Wake-up wellness session
Join us as we ease into the festival with a gentle exercise session led by Defiant Sports
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10.00
11.00How we saved our street
How the community in Plymouth took back their high street, breathing life into unused spaces
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11.00
11.30Behind the grind
Join us for a tour of Queen's Mill as they produce the lockdown essential: flour!
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12.00
1.00Plan C for Community
Reacting and adapting, the people supporting your neighbourhood through times of change with The Wharton Trust
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1.00
1.15How to make the perfect pie!
Tips from the pros: Pie making with Liverpool's finest: Homebaked
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1.30
1.45How to sprout
Community gardening group Black Rootz grow seasonal and exotic veg. Find out how you can get started at home!
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2.30
3.15Everything you need to know about being a trustee
You could use your skills to take local organisations to the next level
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3.30
4.15How to look good sustainably
Join us for the premiere of 'How to look good sustainably' - a mini-documentary on slow fashion featuring some amazing transformations from Makers HQ and Stitched Up Coop.
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5.00
6.30The Community Business Summer Social
Grab a brew for this social session with community business leaders
Friday 14th August
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8.00
8.30Round 2! Friday fitness session
Boxing with Bradford legends at St Mary Magdalene
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10.00
10.30Smells like community spirit
Inspiring stories about community businesses coming out of Covid-19
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11.00
11.30The life aquatic
Behind the scenes of Byrne Avenue Baths and how to turn a hole in the ground (Eastville Lido) into a community space!
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11.30
12.15Dive into crowdfunding!
with Jubilee Pool and Crowdfunder. Find out how to raise funds (and support) from your online community
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12.30
2.00It starts with art
Join us as we explore the dynamic world of community-led housing and try problem solving through a creative lens
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2.30
3.15A helping hand
Discover the varied roles that volunteers do to give back locally and expand their skills
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3.30
4.30How to save your pub
Find out how communities across the country are saving their local pubs, and turning them into somewhere for all the family
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4.30
5.15The nature hour
Round off the day with some environmental and nature wellbeing sessions, including how to save a bee!