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.
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
We are a youth and community charity based in Filton, but we work with and in schools across Bristol and South Gloucestershire.
Outdoor learning, arts and play expertise, delivering projects, research and consultancy. Currently developing a social franchise and practitioner support for outdoor children's services, Forest Schools and participatory arts.
We are organising a series of events between the 30th September and the 10th October. These events will encourage conversation, offer practical tools and influence change, to make Bristol a happier, healthier city.
We’re a group of local residents organising events and community around the library. Everything we do is organised by volunteers, funds go to providing equipment, facilities, services at the library. We’re organising one-off events and ongoing regular events.
We support local families by offering a range of learning and leisure activities
Fundraising for local park
To promote and protect two of our city's green spaces.
We are trying to save our local swimming pool (Bristol Jubilee Pool) by securing a Community Asset Transfer which will enable the community to run the pool and keep it open
Seeks to protect, enhance and develop St. Andrews park and surrounding streets.
A group that works to support and enhance St George Park, Bristol as a community resource and wildlife haven. We work with other community groups and the City Council.
Full circle provides a youth service for young people in St Pauls and the surrounding area. The clubs include a girls club on a Tuesday 4.30-6pm; open access youth club Wednesdays 6-9pm (13-19 yrs); Women's Group Thursdays 11-2pm, an open access activity/games night (7-12) parents welcome! We are also actively working with other organisations to put on community events including family fun days and are involved in community development through St Pauls Unlimited and the Ashley, Easton... More
We are Fun 4 Families UK C.I.C t/a Fun 4 Families Bristol. Helping the community make memories by working together and supporting each other. Providing vital social support across the city and surrounding areas.
GayWest is a long-established social and support organisation for gay men and women. We run a coffeeshop - the Rainbow CafÈ - in central Bath every Saturday morning from 10.30am - 12.30pm and this is open to everyone. For members, we run events and social activities outlined in our monthly magazine
GILL delivers the 'a SALT course' (Spiritual Activists Leadership Training). This is a yearly training programme, affiliated to schumacher Institute, helping people engaged in social / political / spiritual change work to achieve goals through action-reflection and group support. The programme is designed by participants. All are both participants and leaders. 'a SALT course' is a balance of fun, creativity, deep listening, allotment skill aquisition, spiritual... More
Girlguiding Bristol South Gloucester provides girls from age 5 up with the opportunity to pursue new challenges, make new friends and discover new skills and abilities they didn't know they had, by encouraging decision making and team work. All our weekly sessions for girls are run by local volunteers. Volunteers also handle our recruitment and the set up of new units and therefore new places for more girls.
Glenside Hospital Museum houses collections relating to the history of Bristol Psychiatric and Learning Disability Hospitals.
The Museum, set within the grounds of the building which opened in 1861 as The Bristol Lunatic Asylum, tells the 130 year story of a psychiatric hospital. Originally built for 300 patients the hospital quickly expanded to accommodating over a 1000 patients at any one. Apart from three years as a War Hospital from 1915 to 1919 when it specialised in orthopaedics... More