Supporting Voluntary and Community Action
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 return on Thursday February 29th, and now is your chance to show your appreciation for a local third...
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 offering the opportunity to reserve your place at one or both events, via the links below:
To...
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 members for a fairer society.
On 7-8th November Locality are hosting their annual...
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 his time in post: "I am inspired and fed by the amazing, creative, dedicated transformative work...
“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 excellent Board. Running through to December 2023, you can pick which sessions to attend to build...
Can you believe it’s 15 weeks since our last VCSE Barometer? In May we received over 1,100 responses and learnt that:
The Social Enterprise Leadership Programme is a 5-month leadership development opportunity. It is designed to increase the knowledge, understanding, capability and confidence of Bristol’s VCSE sector social enterprise leaders through a programme of interactive, challenging, supported...
Recently the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman team, working in partnership with Voscur, engaged with the public as well as community leaders in Bristol as part of their roadshow. This outreach work enabled them to hear first-hand about issues facing local people and engage with...
The MAZI Project is an exciting, thriving social enterprise which since 2021 has provided over 6500 healthy meal boxes to vulnerable young people in Bristol, as well as delivering an innovative “pay it forward” scheme to generate income.
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The Barometer Survey is a quarterly ‘temperature check’ of the VCSE sector which aims to uncover new trends and insights, and highlight real-time issues and challenges. You may have heard about its findings on the BBC News or read about it in the national and VCS...