Supporting Voluntary and Community Action
#VolunteersWeek is an opportunity for us to reflect on who is and isn’t volunteering, and why that might be. The reasons people are, or aren’t, volunteering are multiple, complex and nuanced. Over at Voscur, and in volunteer-involving organisations across Bristol, we are aware the demographic...
For the 4th day of Volunteers Week we spoke to Sarah Mountford, Volunteer and Project Coordinator at Windmill Hill City Farm, about all things volunteering on a working farm. Windmill Hill City Farm is based just off East Street, Bedminster and is a bustling 4.5-acre green space. On site, you’ll...
For the 3rd day of Volunteers Week we spoke with Nathalie, founder of ADHD Bristol Collective about her relatively new, entirely volunteer run, organisation.
Nathalie, hello! Please can you tell our readers a bit about ADHD Bristol Collective, why you formed and what you’re...
*Trigger warning – this article contains mentions of sexual assault and rape within the context of support services*
For day two of #volunteersweek we are sharing an example of volunteering that is happening from homes across Bristol and beyond, where volunteers are making a real...
Volunteers' Week is officially upon us! As we've mentioned in previous posts, we are celebrating the week by writing a series of spotlight stories on local organisations - highlighting the diversity of volunteer involving...
Volunteers' Week is the annual celebration of, and expression of gratitude for, volunteers across the country. Running from 1st-7th June, the week offers an opportunity to say thanks to our volunteers, and advocate for volunteering as a fulfilling and vital service.
There are several...
As we go into #volunteersweek we wanted to take a moment to say a huge THANK YOU to all volunteer coordinators across the city! Many volunteer coordinators are volunteers themselves (if involved in an entirely volunteer-run organisation), and some...
At the end of March Voscur hosted the Cost of Living and Inequalities Conference, bringing together leading voices from across the city to share insight, understand challenges and plot pathways forwards through the current economic climate.
As a result of this work, a manifesto has been...
Between February 8th and March 10th, we conducted a survey of local community organisations, asking them how the cost of living crisis has affected their organisations’ services and sustainability....
Six new Bristol community organisations will be supported to co-develop their own responses to the climate crisis, after being accepted into the Community Climate Action Project learning and mentoring programme...