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.
We provide free summer camps, respite care and other activities which support disabled children and young people. These activities are aimed at developing confidence and independence while in a caring and supportive environment.
The project enables young mothers aged 16 to 25 access to a wide range of; skills, advice support, educational opportunities and information. This will aim to provide better educational and employment prospects, improve health choices, increase life expectations and establish greater opportunities for young mothers and their children in the future. The group run on Mon-Fri from 12.00 until 2.30 and offers Ofted registeered creche facilities during these times.<br><br... More
Home Instead Senior Care is a unique local service for older people. We provide services like companionship, meal preparation, light housekeeping, personal care, errands and local transport. Our Caregivers encourage, assist and stimulate our clients in a variety of daily activities in order to keep them independent and happy in their own homes for as long as possible.
Home-Start is a voluntary organisation committed to promoting the welfare of families with at least one child under five years of age. Volunteers offer weekly support, friendship and practical help to families under stress, in their own homes, helping to prevent family crisis and breakdown. Home-Start Bristol offers a unique service covering a wide geographical area, including Bristol and South Gloucestershire. We are committed to delivering an inclusive service open to families from all... More
Home-Start North Somerset is a family support charity. Our volunteers help families through challenging times with practical support and friendship.
we directly house the homeless, by raising funds from public and private sectors. All money raised goes directly to where its needed i.e paying a deposit and a months rent in advance, We also help them look for employment if gives them back hope and rebuild there lives
We run and manage a community building to provide activities to the local area which includes a youth club and adult learning.
Helping to make Hotwells and Cliftonwood a better place to live by facilitating and supporting community led initiatives. Youth activities have been put on hold and will return when demand returns. We are committed to a Sustainable Environment and facilitate groups involved in Green Spaces and Traffic and Transport. We aim to increase the dialogue between different sections of the community through Community Forums and Community Consultations. We produce a quarterly Newsletter which is... More
CHAS Bristol is a registered charity that provides free, independent and confidential advice on housing problems. Our service is for anyone in housing need in Bristol and surrounding areas, we also provide advice on debt and welfare benefit issues, if related to the primary housing issue. We operate our service by telephone, home visits and outreach appointments at central locations in Bristol.
I am an employment expert, empowering small organisations to deliver good practice when managing people. I offer free compliance checks, and pragmatic, cost effective solutions to problems.
The Hungerford Community Centre is the club for the community built by the community located on Hungerford Road, Brislington.
iContact promote and encourage community, cultural and citizen's orientated film making. We strongly believe in the power of low and no budget film making and that all it really takes to make a film is determination. Our films span a decade and a half and have covered both local and global issues. In this time we have worked with many local community, campaign groups and broadcast media.
Provide 1:1 support, therapy, advice, signposting to adult internet sex-workers in Bristol.
Promoting photography and multimedia storytelling. IC-Visual Lab provides an open forum for the discussion, production and promotion of photography. Through regular events and community based activities ICVL supports the development of the medium we love. Our aim is to help share and explore the potential of photography with new and diverse audiences. We are based in Bristol, South West of England and are open for commissions, collaborations and conversations
Training and facilitation.
Bespoke, peer led self development training called the Domino Effect Project, aimed at individuals who have experienced a major upset in their lives and are ready to change and move on.
A competition SHARPSHOTZ for young people attending secondary schools in Bristol and North Somerset. Utilises documentary and animation films to raise awareness of issues facing young people today. Two winning films are chosen and produced with an annual premiere at the Watershed in Bristol.
THeatre / visual arts / story teling and writing community arts workshops and training.
Improving the Lives of Older People is a community group with the aim of reducing loneliness and isolation.
Imayla - Urban, Rural Creative Connections. We run a range of multi-cultural arts and activity events, courses, residentials and camps inspired by the outdoor environment. Imayla works alongside partner organisations and individuals to respond to the needs of Bristol's inner city communities and develop links between the city and the rural environment. A longer term ambition is to develop an Out of the City facility (approx 1.5 hrs from Bristol) for community use as a Centre for inter... More
In Between Time is a working-class, female-led live art producer based in Bristol and the South West, with an international network and reach.
Since 2001, we have been bringing people, partners and places together through festivals and remarkable artworks and events, to connect, think, reflect, take action, dream and to do things together that they have not yet imagined.
We bring people together around radical art and ideas to encourage new ways to think about the world and... More
In Bristol Studio is an artist-led, not for profit organisation whose mission is to provide affordable studio space with shared access to specialist professional tools and machinery, alongside business support, mentoring and opportunities to develop the creative practice of our members.
include works in such a way that the best interests of children and young people are the priority and social inclusion is promoted. We ensure both equality of opportunity and quality of provision for learners so that although they are educated ‘outside the mainstream’, attainment, achievement and progression is at a level comparable to mainstream school.
Providing supported access to the workplace for autistic and neuro-divergent young people; providing education and training to organisations to help them develop more inclusive and diverse workplaces.
We promote horticultural activities in Bristol and surround areas. We also install gardens in public spaces, and schools as well as running an education programme in primary and secondary schools.
Play and support sessions for disabled children
IMB members are unpaid volunteers appointed by the Ministry of Justice to monitor day to day life in prisons and ensure that proper standards of care and decency are maintained.
The team of 13 members visit Eastwood Park Women's Prison on a weekly rota. After a period of training IMB members visit the prison unannounced and are issued with keys at the main gate. IMB members have access to most areas and weekly rota visit reports are prepared. Any issues raised are discussed with... More
Regional Branch of National Organisation. The Institute of Fundraising South West Group provides training, advice and support on all issues relating to fundraising. Regular training events are held including two one-day conferences per year. The group also operates an internet forum and maintains a list of fundraising consultants and freelance fundraisers.<br>The South West Group offers bursaries to enable people to join the Institute of Fundraising at half-price
We provide a place of worship for the local Muslims of Montpelier and surrounding areas;Further we provide after-school classes for young children 6-16 years on the Quran and Islamic studies
We support men with Testicular Cancer in the South West of England
Jacari Bristol provides free English language support to children who do not speak English as their first language and who are struggling at school.
Jackie's Feed Program was set up by Jackie in 2012. Food service takes place in Priory Park in the centre of Bristol every other Saturday. Our aim is to eradicate hunger from within the homeless community of Bristol by providing hot, nutritious and balanced meals ''cooked with love''.