Supporting Voluntary and Community Action
Calling The Shots, established in 1998, is a video production company that specializes in working with and for the community development and education sectors. We produce training and promotional films for charities and community-based organizations. We also offer training services, working with young people and other groups to support them to produce their own video programmes. We produce web-based projects and offer documentation services for events. Recent clients include Bristol and... More
CPRE Avonside campaigns on issues that affect our area including housing, transport, energy, local food and farming. We promote efficient land use that helps retain green spaces and develop good quality well designed buildings that improve the quality of life for both urban and rural dwellers.
Care Horizons is the leading provider of in-home day and 24/7 care and lifestyle management for individuals with mental health conditions, learning disabilities and conditions including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
Operating throughout Southwest Gloucestershire, the highly qualified team at Care Horizons is unparalleled when it comes to transforming people’s lives for the better, maintaining independence with dignity at home, and optimising wellbeing.
Careers4Change is a specialist recruitment consultant, connecting purpose driven individuals with innovative organisations that are delivering on social change - working with Power To Change for example
The Carers’ Support Centre provides a range of support services for unpaid carers. These include, but are not limited to Carersline, a telephone service which provides information and advice and acts as a referral point to services within the centre and outside agencies. There is one-to-one support and advocacy available to suit the individual needs of carers in both Bristol and South Glos. Each year the Centre holds events which coincide with the national carers week and our annual meeting... More
Services we are offer are:
Personal Hygiene Care,
Physical Disability,
24hr Care/Night Sits/Sleeps,
Dementia Care,
Call in/Companionship,
Respite Cover,
Medication Assistance,
Domestic Help,
Food Preparation & serving,
Hospital Discharge,
Light Gardening Duties,
Transportation Service,
Pet Care/Walking/Feeding
Caring in Bristol is creating a city empowered to solve homelessness. It works in creative and imaginative ways with people experiencing or at risk of homelessness, with the public and with community partners, to bring about lasting change in Bristol and beyond. We believe that homelessness is not inevitable. Our work provides early support to halt homelessness in its tracks, helping people to move away from a crisis.
We support young people who have experienced a homelessness crisis... More
We currently offer creche, pre-school and day school children. We also offer youth diversionary facilities through work with a local school and sport training, a Friday evening youth meeting and engagement teams working on the streets of Brislington. Moving through the age groups, we offer marriage advice and sessions on how to come to terms with divorce and grief. We also provide debt management assistance. We run a weekly food bank.
inspires, empowers and skills girls and young women for sustainable futures
Therapy for adopted and fostered children
The Centre for Capacity Building & Enterprise Development (CCBED) is a Bristol based social enterprise dedicated to training and development. We are currently set up to deliver SFEDI accredited and specifically designed courses that cater for the needs of under represented groups in society e.g. migrants, disabled, older people and the unemployed.
We provide a free equipment and installation service for anyone with a registered hearing loss living in Bristol.
We are a national charitable company, established in 1979, that shares our knowledge and experience to help people change to way they think and act on energy. We have a staff of over 40, and work on some 60 different projects at any one time. We are funded by more than £2 million a year from a range of governmental, charitable and private sector funds and clients.
Cerebra are a UK Children's Disabilities Charity supporting children up to 16 who are have a learning disability or neurological condition. Cerebra offers a range are services that are available to disabled children and their familes. There is no cost for these or indeed for membership.
Services include our National Helpline, Grants Scheme, a Postal Lending Library (inc. Sensory Toys), Free Information Events and Literature, a Sleep Advisory Service, Personal Portfolio Service (... More
Cerebral palsy plus is a Bristol based charity for those with cerebral palsy, their families and carers. We are committed to providing high quality, timely information and confidential support to the cerebral palsy community of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset.
mens mentoring company for males in education and beyond
Changes Bristol is a mutual help and support group for people of the greater Bristol Community who are affected by mental health problems. Using a twelve step program that fosters a therapeutic environment, Changes holds group sessions in which participants can share problems while receiving support and learning from one another. We encourage our participants to use our methodology to make meaningful changes for improved long term mental health.
Changes provides a safe environment... More
Operates a number of retail spaces to raise money to support our Volunteer Plus programme. This scheme is designed to help and support people who have experienced trauma - which may have led to addiction, offending, homelessness etc. - to gain non-paid work experience and receive mentoring support in order to help them find hope and a future.
The Association operates to support charitable aims in the Chaplin Community Garden in Easton. It is currently applying for registration as a charity, with the following objects:
(1) To advance community development and social cohesion for all residents local to Chaplin Community Garden in the Easton district of Bristol by enhancing the Garden’s relevance and presence through a process of ongoing enhancement.
(2) The promotion of mental health and wellbeing for local community... More
We provide HR advice, support and organisational development consultancy to VCS organisations. We provide a full service from recruitment through to retirement and everything in between. We also support organisations through support to Boards via training on a wide range of governance issues.
We have delivered training for VOSCUR over a number of years.
Cherry Orchards is a therapeutic community offering on-site residential or day programmes. It helps adults recovering from the debilitating effect of any life crisis, including mental health or psychological problems, learning difficulties, recovery from substance or alcohol abuse, and any other form of emotional distress. Set in 20 acres of fields and gardens, it offers a safe and peaceful rural setting within an urban context.
Our objectives are:<br>> To relieve sickness, hardship and distress by providing assistance, advice, representation and services amongst Chinese women in the area of benefit.<br>> To provide or assist in the provision of facilities for recreation or other leisure time occupation for Chinese women or for those persons who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, poverty or social and economic circumstances... More
We are a large city centre church, and work under our vision statement of "Being transformed by Jesus to see the Kingdom come', which is further expanded in the three areas of Worship, Mission and Family. Internationally, we support many mission partners in the wider world.
Registered (Non profit) Provider of Social Housing (Supported Accommodation) and related support services, Drugs & Alcohol, Domestic Violence and Other Vulnerable Adult Services.
Circles Network is a UK wide voluntary organisation based in Warwickshire, renowned for building inclusive communities on the foundations of justice, advocacy, empowerment and friendships.
Working with people of any age who are isolated or at risk of isolation, this organisation has ground breaking expertise in the development of Circles of Support, Independent and Collective Advocacy, Person Centred Planning and Inclusion into the mainstream of life. Working in highly creative,... More
FE and HE education in Circus
Community engagement in circus and arts
Public class programme for adults and children in Circus
Theatre and performance
Events and hires space
Supports witnesses attending court
Provides free, impartial advice and information on a range of issues including: Benefits, Debt, Housing, Employment, Consumer and Family.
City Funds is a place-based investment fund for Bristol that invests in organisations that are targeting the causes and effects of inequality in the city. Primarily, this means we invest in four priority areas: Economic Inclusion, Community Initiatives, Environmental Transformation and No Child Goes Hungry (reducing food poverty). We can invest from £50,000 up to £1 million, depending on the type of the project and the experience of the leadership team. We use mixed funding to help design... More
Clean Slate offers support and training to help people become financially better off, find work and make the most out of being online.
Clearer Minds will source and build micro homes for the homeless. Also provide a space where they can grow/ build things to sell. A shop with a café will be provided for this.
Developing a project to restore and open a heated open air community swimming pool. Cleveland pools is the oldest surviving public pool in the UK dating from 1815. It is listed grade II* and part of the Bath World Heritage Site. The project is applying for a stage II HLF grant and will include historic interpretation as a core part of the project.
Brings people together around books, secondhand donated books and provides a space for people to get together in the evenings.
The Trust has two roles: It manages, conserves and preserves the Clifton Suspension Bridge, a Grade 1 listed Bridge and Monument. The Trust is also responsible for the Clifton Suspension Bridge Visitor Centre that interprets the history of the bridge, how it works and the many stories and events surrounding it. The Visitor Centre has two full time members of staff and 56 volunteers who help run the building, the education programmes and events that the Centre offers. The Centre offers free... More
Clinks supports, represents and campaigns for the Voluntary and Community Sector working with offenders. Clinks aims to ensure the Sector and all those with whom they work, are informed and engaged in order to transform the lives of offenders. More information on our local work can be found here: http://www.clinks.org/support/local-support
Co-operative and Community Finance provides loans to co-ops and other social economy enterprises throughout the former Avon area. These include registered or incorporated workers, marketing and community co-ops and community businesses.<br><br>It provides user-friendly support and Advice to clients and is therefore especially suitable for new and existing social economy enterprises. Loans of £5,000 to £50,000 are available and in some circumstances it is able to... More
We are a theatre company that makes work about social issues working with communities to create them. At the moment we are working on a site-specific production about domestic violence staged in a residential house. We have been working extensively with the charity Survive and with women who have experienced domestic violence to record their stories which we are making a verbatim text out of. We aim to make work for people who do not normally go to the theatre and have strong marketing... More
Community Care Connect is a localised approach to building care and support networks that enables communities themselves to play a vital role in meeting the care and support needs of the people that live there.
We support third sector organisations, social enterprises and carer-led start-ups to upscale their impact by developing viable new Carer Introduction Services that match people seeking care or support at home with self-employed and directly employed Care or Support Workers and... More
We are a social enterprise working across the community public and private sector, promoting new ways of meeting, engaging, collaborating, participating, co-designing and co-creating. We use the income generated through our work with larger organisations to subsidise our work with the grassroots.
We are Community Organisers, Participatory Group Process Designers/ Facilitators, Graphic Artists, Campaigners, Researchers and Trainers using cutting edge social technologies such as "... More
Curo Choice delivers Community Connectwhich is a service which supports people over 50 by identifying ways to improve their lives and signposting them to other agencies when appropriate. Our support may include creating groups in the community, and enabling them to re-connect to their neighbourhood and become less isolated.
We provide educational classes, advice services, employment support, social opportunities and signposting, advocacy and counselling services,
We run and manage Filwood Community Centre. It is base to Filwood Sports and Social Club, The Knowle West Health Association and Kepping kids Company (from 1/1/13)
Mentoring for CEO's, Board development around strategic planning and governance
Community of Purpose C.I.C (10421390) is committed to transforming the lives and futures of young people and making Bristol even better. To make this a reality, we run three main projects throughout the year:
The Compass Project is a community of people in recovery from addiction working together to move forward by providing volunteer work opportunities to all our members. We support ourselves by collecting, recycling, renovating and reselling donated furniture and goods through our two social enterprises. We believe everyone and everything deserves a second chance!
Contact! is a charity which provides support, advice, and information for families with disabled children.
We do not provide "hands on" practical support but do provide information, signposting and a listening ear from a local parents who has local knowledge.
Academy school - Co-operative model
We provide supported training & employment for disabled people, using the creativity of cooking, gardening and beyond.
We are a charitable organisation renting offices to other charities, hiring activity and meeting rooms and developing work with young people, inspiring them to fulfil their potential through arts
cinema, music, arts venue
The Charity has a trading arm, the Curzon Community Cinema, from which any profits go back to the charity to support these aims:
(a) To promote, maintain, improve and advance education of the public in Clevedon and the surrounding area generally and encouragement of the Arts.
(b) To provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for the recreation and leisure time occupation of the residents of the areas aforesaid without distinction of sex of political, religious or... More
Dame Emily Park Project DEPP are a community group made up of local residents. Our aims are to
improve Dame Emily Park, for the benefit of all its users, in providing a safe and pleasant environment with good facilities.
Supports adults with sight and hearing loss
A leading firm of solicitors specialising in public law and human rights, whose casework focuses on representing marginalised groups and individuals to challenge decisions made by public authorities. Legal Aid is available. Other forms of funding for cases can be explored if needs be.
Deki is a organisation that connects people through online person-to-person micro-loans. Empowering specific people in the developing world to lift themselves out of poverty. The Deki website (www.deki.org.uk) displays photographs and profiles of borrowers in the developing world who would like a micro-loan to help them set up or expand a business. Deki works with field partners who are grass roots organisations already working micro finance. We provide... More
DET Entertainment holds various events within the communities of Bristol.
We're committed to providing an expansive platform for local business and initiatives to connect with the community and bring opportunities that build bridges for better community cohesion.
Developing Health and Independence is a local charity that was set up in 1999 to help people out of the cycle of homelessness, social isolation and drug or alcohol abuse.
One of our strengths is being able to respond to our clients’ needs by offering a tailored programme from a range of practical and emotional support services.
DHI deals not only with the health and emotional well being of our clients, but also with practical issues such as housing, social isolation, and lack... More