Supporting Voluntary and Community Action
“Excellence for Boards” is a newly-developed set of six courses that takes you through from the basics of your role as a charity trustee or CIC director to enabling you to become part of a truly excellent Board. Running through to December 2023, you can pick which sessions to attend to build...
Can you believe it’s 15 weeks since our last VCSE Barometer? In May we received over 1,100 responses and learnt that:
The Social Enterprise Leadership Programme is a 5-month leadership development opportunity. It is designed to increase the knowledge, understanding, capability and confidence of Bristol’s VCSE sector social enterprise leaders through a programme of interactive, challenging, supported...
Recently the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman team, working in partnership with Voscur, engaged with the public as well as community leaders in Bristol as part of their roadshow. This outreach work enabled them to hear first-hand about issues facing local people and engage with...
The MAZI Project is an exciting, thriving social enterprise which since 2021 has provided over 6500 healthy meal boxes to vulnerable young people in Bristol, as well as delivering an innovative “pay it forward” scheme to generate income.
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The Barometer Survey is a quarterly ‘temperature check’ of the VCSE sector which aims to uncover new trends and insights, and highlight real-time issues and challenges. You may have heard about its findings on the BBC News or read about it in the national and VCS...
Bristol City Council is inviting expressions of interest from community-based organisations to take a lease of the new St Peter's Community Centre, which is due to be completed by April next year. This will be the Council's first new community centre in 20 years,and presents a great opportunity...
At the end of June we mentioned...
In March 2023, we launched our inaugural Pulse survey. Your responses painted a concerning picture for the sustainability and vitality of many third sector organisations in Bristol.
Since then, we have presented the results to key stakeholders at the One City Gathering. Earlier this year...
The volunteer organisers of the Volunteer Organisers Forum (got that?), supported by Voscur, have been working hard behind the scenes to develop something much asked for! An online space for Volunteer Organisers to chat, ask and respond to questions, share resources and best practice, and...