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Announcing the winners of the Bristol Social Impact Awards 2024!
We are pleased to announce the winners of the Bristol Social Impact Awards 2024! The awards ceremony took place on the evening on February 29th 2024 at South Bristol Skills Academy in Hengrove....
The Bristol Social Impact Awards Ceremony is tonight!
The Bristol Social Impact Awards are back tonight (29th Feb 2024), where we will be celebrating the people that strive to make Bristol a great place to live, work and volunteer.
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Shortlisted candidates announced for Bristol Social Impact Awards 2024
Over the last few months we have been asking you, the public, to nominate the individuals, groups and organisations who you think are making amazing contributions to building community in Bristol...
Latest Pulse survey results suggest nearly half of VCSE services at risk
In March 2023, we launched our inaugural Pulse survey, and between July and October we completed our second iteration of the survey. Your responses were compared with what we found...
Bristol Women's Commission announce 16 days of activism
Bristol Women's Commission has written a letter to local media announcing 16 days of activism against gender-based violence, from November 25th until December 10th. The letter - to which Voscur...
Co-designing for improved health, social care and wellbeing BNSSG
Does your organisation work to improve health and wellbeing for people in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG)?
Whether you’re working in the voluntary, community or...
Nominations open for Bristol Social Impact Awards
Nominations are now open for the Bristol Social Impact Awards (formerly The Voscurs), with a deadline for nominations of January 21st 2024 (11:59pm)
This prestigious awards ceremony will...
Have Your Say and AGM
This year, our Have Your Say Forum event will be immediately followed by our AGM, in a double-event extravaganza!
These events will take place on December 5th, at The Park Centre. We are...
Come to the Locality Convention - hosted this year in Bristol
Locality is the national network of community orgs. They have over 1,600 members who help hundreds of thousands of people every week. Offering specialist advice, peer learning and campaign with...
Voscur seeks Innovation & Development Director
After thirteen years at Voscur, Mark Hubbard (Development Director) has decided to take on a new challenge. Everyone at Voscur is grateful for Mark's work, and he has shared some reflections on...
New learning opportunities to support the work of Trustees and Directors
“Excellence for Boards” is a newly-developed set of six courses that takes you through from the basics of your role as a charity trustee or CIC director to enabling you to become part of a truly...
VCSE Barometer Survey: 13-27 September
Can you believe it’s 15 weeks since our last VCSE Barometer? In May we received over 1,100 responses and learnt that:
Despite more than half of charities of all sizes expecting to meet demand...
How The Real Photography Company became a CIC
The Real Photography Company, based in St. Paul’s Learning Centre, began as a group of local photographers who wanted to share their love of analogue photography and darkroom techniques. Founding directors Wendy Leocque and Ruth Jacobs spoke to Voscur about their journey to becoming a fully-formed Community