Supporting Voluntary and Community Action
This is the VCSE Directory, a comprehensive listing of Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise organisations in the Bristol area. If you don't see your own organisation listed, you can add your organisation to our directory.
The Ethical Property Company is a unique initiative in ethical investment. We buy properties and develop them as centres that bring charities, social enterprises, community and campaign groups together under one roof where they can share skills and ideas.
Groups in our centres benefit from affordable rents, flexible tenancy terms and office space and facilities designed to meet their needs. The centres are also managed to minimise energy use, waste, car travel and harmful materials.... More
The Brentry & Henbury Children’s Centre opened its first centre in May 2004. We provide a range of child care and support services to families living in our local community.
Our primary aim is to provide high quality, child centred care to children aged between 9 months to 5 years of age using the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework. The nursery is open from 8.00am to 5.45pm, Monday to Friday. We also offer a range of community groups alongside our child-care.
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To support the local creative community. To promote arts and culture (primarily music). Support
niche, marginal and underrepresented groups within arts. To provide a community cafe / hub / event
space, addressing social and mental health concerns. Promote diversity, accessibility and
sustainability
TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS OF DISABLED CHILDREN AND CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS (SEN) AND THEIR PARENTS, CARERS AND SIBLINGS (THE ‘BENEFICIARIES’) IN THE BRISTOL AREA BY THE PROVISION OF, IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY: (A) FREE ACTIVITY SESSIONS FOR THE BENEFICIARIES IN THE COMMUNITY. (B) SIGNPOSTING THE PARENTS, CARERS AND SIBLINGS TO ORGANISATIONS THAT CAN GIVE SUPPORT AND INFORMATION
WE run community time banks across Gloucestershire and within the prisons across the south west
Families in Touch aims to provide support and short respite breaks to families with disabled children and young adults. We provide playschemes to enable parents/carers respite as well as offering coffe mornings for parents/carers and social outings - e.g. day trips, pantomime, etc. for the whole family.
Family Building Ltd. is a fashion label with an active sports (FRG: skateboarding) and low impact living (UK: self-sustainable produce and community markets) attribute.
FFA is a charity which aims to promote community engagement, awareness and relief of food poverty in Bristol, through local networking and the collection of food and other vital supplies for distribution to community partners working with families and children in poverty and in need.
We fight food poverty by tackling food waste. We save perfectly good surplus food destined for waste and redistribute it to local Charities and community groups who transform it into nutritious meals for vulnerable people. We actively promote our key message to the food industry and general public – ‘No good food should be wasted’. We rely on the energy and dedication of our volunteers and provide meaningful work experiences and training, combatting social isolation and providing routes... More
Financial education for young people.
Creators of an app based tool to measure and improve financial awareness and capabilities in 14-18 age group
Felix Road Adventure Playground provides children between the age of five and sixteen with the opportunity to play in a safe environment. The playground is free and open to all. We believe that it is vital for all children to have the opportunity to play in order to develop skills and knowledge that enable them to learn about themselves and the world.
The Felix Road Adventure Playground Association is currently working towards a thriving, sustainable and independent community space.... More
Filwood Hope is an Advice Centre which offers a wide range of advice, support, expertise and counselling to the people of Knowle West and South Bristol.
Specialist advisers run drop-in sessions: South Bristol Advice Services run twice weekly sessions covering benefit and debt issues. For older people Age UK offers a drop-in session one day a week, followed by home visits.Volunteer Counselors from Network Counselling see people throughout the week. We also off Rent Management once a... More
Firebird Theatre is a company of 16 highly experienced and committed disabled actors based in Bristol. The majority of the actors are disabled people with learning difficulties (sometimes referred to as learning disabilities) and there is also one disabled actor who is a wheelchair user. Firebird Theatre is an associate company of Bristol Old Vic, where it meets, works and performs. Firebird Theatre is a membership-led organisation that seeks to use theatre to
• Change audience... More
Supporting students who are the first-generation in their family to attend university
Our organisation seeks to share the Good News of everlasting life through our Lord Jesus Christ by word and deed and offers a range of services and activities - Sunday Services 10.30am and 6.30am, from 3-5pm on the 4th Sunday of the month a Songs of Praise
Monday and Friday 10-11.30am Toddler Time
Tuesday and Thurs 12-1pm Luncheon Club (over 70s)
Wednesday (1st& 3rd) 10.30am -12 Diamond Club (over 60s)
Wednesday (2nd & 4th) 7.30-10pm Midweek break (ladies... More
FLAG is a not for profit enterprise which promotes projects for the improvement of the Fishponds area. It runs the Beechwood club <bs16 3tr> and hires out it's rooms for the benefit of the local people/groups for regular or occasional events. We welcome children's parties but other types of parties are often refused.
We are happy to join with other groups of local people to help/assist with any local project.
We have a large involvement with the... More
FMC Global Talent is a technical recruitment firm, specialising in the automotive, software and meditech markets. We put people to work at some of the worlds leading organisations.
we help people who suffer with FND
Functional Neurological Disorder. we cover 14 towns and cities across the South West, We offer a befriending service in each of these towns, cities we also offer craft days in Bristol, Swindon and Exeter. we have 34 volunteers working for us. We have our office in Bradley Stoke Bristol.
Focus Consultants are a multi-disciplinary consultancy with an enviable reputation.
We work in the public and private sectors and specialise in dealing with complex and sensitive projects and in assisting clients to create, develop and implement projects covering a range of industries, including culture and heritage, the arts, housing, education commercial and retail, government agencies, health, community, regeneration, sports, leisure and tourism and the environment.
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Food for All (Hartcliffe Food Co-op) is a not-for-profit, membership based co-operative. The co-op sells local, fresh organic vegetables from Hartcliffe's community market garden and from Leigh Court Farm. It sells honey from a local bee keeper and free range eggs from a near-by farm. It also stocks a range of healthy foods, fairly-traded goods and environmentally friendly products which it sells from a shop at The Gatehouse Centre in Hartcliffe. Volunteers regularly take a stall out to... More