Are you ready to kick start enterprising changes in your community?  Do you have an idea for a new project, social enterprise or community business and need help to get it off the ground? 

If so, Kick Start could be just what you need. It will help you to:

Bristol BME Voice, Avon Fire & Rescue Service and partners have joined together to host an event to help make home safety a priority to BME communities.

'A civil society is a public space between the state, the market and the ordinary household, in which people can debate and tackle action’. When we act not for profit nor because the law requires us to, but out of love or anger or creativity or principle, we are civil society.

In December 2016 five of the six equalities forums who are members of BEING (Bristol Equalities Influence and Networking Group) found they had all been unsuccessful in their applications for core funding from Bristol City Council. The Council has decided to commission a Voice and Influence Service to cover the protected characteristics, which includes: race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender re-assignment, religion and belief.

Following on from the work of the Manifesto for Race Equality and its consultation with local communities, Bristol’s Interim Commission for Race Equality has now been established and endorsed by the Mayor for the City of Bristol.  Getting to this point has taken a lot of work and discussion in the background by the Manifesto Working Group (now the Interim Commission for Race Equality).

We will soon be seeking new Commissioners to run the formal Commission for Race Equality and be establishing a new Race Equality network.  

Calling all citizens, activists, community groups and community workers!

If you want to make a difference in your neighbourhood or are already active and want to network with like-minded people then this event is for you.

There will be space to meet people active in their communities, talk about what you are doing or would like to do and get support.

The Volunteer Organisers' Forum is used to promote and share best practice for those managing or coordinating volunteers.  We currently meet quarterly to discuss a variety of issues relevant to volunteering such as volunteer recruitment, employability, DBS checks, volunteer retention, thank you events, welfare reform impacts, volunteers and the law amongst others.

The session will cover: