planet purbeck
Welcome!
At Purbeck Ice Cream we are not only committed to making excellent Ice Cream, but we are also active in our care for the environment and the community in which we live.
Planet Purbeck is to let you know what we are doing and how we are trying to give something back!
Reduce, re-use, recycle
We recycle 95% of our waste (and we are working on the other 5!)
As part of our commitment to our community we regularly give to local and national charities, but there are four specific charities and community activities that have stirred our hearts to commit support to on a regular basis. This year we will focusing on the Jurassic Coast trust, Wareham & Purbeck Young Farmers, Tracy Ann House and IcFEM.
Jurassic Coast Trust
The Jurassic coast trust is working to support the delivery of education, conservation, arts and science programmes along the length of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site
- Spring 2008 - donation of Ice Cream to Jurassic Coast, Durlston
- Purbeck Ice Cream join the 'Investing in the Future' scheme - helping to protect and preserve the stunning landscapes of world heritage
- Purbeck Ice Cream will be working with the Jurassic coast trust through 2008
Wareham & Purbeck Young Farmers
Our heritage is farming - and without that heritage we would not be where we are - so we want to give something back! Look out for the Purbeck Ice Cream Sponsored Young Farmers.
- Spring 2008 -sponsorship of Dorset YFC Annual Rally
- September 2007 - Donation of Ice Cream for Wareham & Purbeck Young Farmers ploughing match
- Purbeck Ice Cream sponsor Wareham & Purbeck Young Farmers Club - more coming soon
- Young Farmers Annual Rally Ice Cream Donation and Purbeck Ice Cream sponsor Dorset Young Farmers Tractor Pull
with logoed T-shirts. more...
Tracy Ann House
Youth cancer trust offering youngsters with life limiting illnesses Dorset holidays to enable life to be lived to the full
Icfem
A Uk/Kenyan based charity working and training pastors in morality and spiritual issues.
Other Charity, Community and Environmental Support
- December 2007 - Donation of Ice Cream to Langton Matravers Pre-School Christmas fundraiser
- December 2007 - Donation of Ice Cream to Everyman cinemas new years day performance
- October 2007 - Donation of Ice Cream to Wareham and Purbeck YFC & Vintage ploughing committee 32nd annual ploughing match.
- October 2007 - Donation of ice cream Alpha Flight Services for Christmas raffle
- September 2007 - Following on from the teams hugely successful recycling programme, the team has now planted a traditional Dorset Cider Apple Orchard. Varieties include the ravishing Sops in Wine, the tremendous Brown Snout, a few hearty Captain Broads and our very own favourite - Slack Ma Girdle! The planting of the Orchard benefits the environment in neutralizing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen as well as attracting a plethora of wildlife.
- August 2007 - donation of Ice Cream to Worth Community Property trust Auction
- August 2007 - Ice Cream donated for a Julia's House event at Luscombe Valley railway
- July 2007 - DR's & Nurses of Swanage health centre - Purbeck Ice Cream keeping the doctors and nurses happy with a donation of ice cream
- July 2007 - Action 4 Keeble - donation of ice cream to the social housing in Keeble
- July 2007 - Shaftesbury Arts Centre, 'kiss me kate' - donation of a freezer full of ice cream
- July 2007 - Lytchett Matravers Primary School, donation of ice cream for raffle.
- June 2007 - pi**ed of farmers evening ice cream donation
- June 2007 - Monkey world 'Jim's memorial day', charitable donations of ice cream
- June 2007 - Purbeck 'on the road' visits St Mary's CE Middle School to talk about ice cream and provide samples!
- May 2007 - Lytchett Matravers Pre-School donation of Ice Cream for raffle
- April 2007 - Purbeck Panthers FC longest drive competition sponsored by Purbeck Ice Cream
- February 2007 - Steven Fry's Farm! - Donation of Ice cream to Corfe Castle 1st School on their visit to the farm
- January 2007 - donation of ice cream to St Michael and All Angels Church , special guest appearance of Edward Fox for a reading of poetry.
- January 2007 - donation of ice cream to St Michael and All Angels Church , special guest appearance of Edward Fox for a reading of poetry.
- Donation of Ice Cream to British Airways Alpha Flight Services for Christmas raffle - proceeds of raffle are going to St. Catherine's hospice
- November 2006 - Ice Cream donation to EveryChild's Bugsy Malone HD Premiere
- November 2006 - Kimmeridge Children's Party Ice Cream Donation
- November 2006 - Jumping Beans Pre School Portland - Donation of Ice Cream for Raffle
- November 2006 - Corfe Castle CE VC First School - Donation of Ice Cream for Raffle
- November 2006 - Ice Cream donation to Kimmeridge Village Hall - all proceeds to go to Poole Scanner appeal
- October 2006 donation of ice cream to Everyman Cinema
- September 2006 - Support of Fudges open day, money raised went to Joseph's Weld Trimar Hospice, Cancercare Dorset & Julia's House Children's Hospice
- August 2006 - £30 donation to Macmillan Cancer Support
- August 2006 - Donation of Ice Cream to Wareham Cricket club.more...
- August 2006 - Donation of Ice Cream to Buckland Newton Fete
- July 2006 - Donation of Ice Cream to Margaret Green Foundation Trust and Sponsorship of annual Companion Dog Show and Family Fun Day
- July 2006 -Ice Cream donated to Salisbury Choir boys singing in Kingston Church
- June 2006 - Corfe Castle CE VC First School - 90 tubs donated to visiting children from Belarus, children with cancer from Chernobyl
- April 13th Ice Cream donation to Corfe Castle Pre-School
- March 2006 - Ice Cream donation to Cancer Research
- December 2005 - Kings Park Primary School - 24 boxes of Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
- December 2005 - Raffles for various charities - Chocolate and Strawberry
- December 2005 - Poole Hospital Scanner Appeal Raffle - Strawberry Ice Cream
- October 2005 - Kingston Harvest Supper - Vanilla Bean and Clotted Cream
- October 2005 - Cancer Research - Vanilla Bean and Honeycombe Hash Ice Cream
- June 2005 - World environment day
- May 2005 - Purbeck Arts Week - 2 Cases of Clotted Cream Ice Cream
- February 2005 - Corfe Castle Town Trust - Ice Cream donation
- January 2005 - Dorset Chamber of Commerce - Donation to the Tsunami appeal
Local art student Sarah Hoare has been looking at the more creative side of Purbeck Ice Cream.Sarah has an obsession with ice cream! She is 22 years old and in her final year studying fine art and visual culture - she has produced several books and prints on and of ice cream. If you would like to be get in contact with Sarah you can phone her on - 07834 557279 | |
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