Supporting Voluntary and Community Action
*UPDATE: 16/03/2020 - This event is now cancelled, as the mayoral election has been postponed until 2021.*
Voscur will be holding a hustings for the forthcoming Bristol mayoral election. The event is being organised in partnership with:
In February 2010, a major review of health equity in England was published, called Fair Society, Healthy Lives (The Marmot Review).
Commissioned by the Secretary of State for Health at the time, the...
The Local Government Information Unit (LGiU) has published its State of Local Government Finance report.
The report is based on information provided by senior figures from around half of all English Councils.
According to LGiU, this year’s findings tell a story of local...
Voscur has joined a range of other public organisations in declaring a climate emergency and adopted a Climate Action Policy that addresses more strategic issues and sets out some newer ways of working. The climate emergency was declared at the Voscur AGM by Chief Executive Sandra...
The government is proposing that charitable trusts should be exempt from registering with the Trusts Registration Service.
The announcement was made in a...
Bristol’s City Office has launched a new iteration of the One City Plan.
Launched in January 2019, the One City Plan consists of targets for 2050 on a range of socioeconomic factors that impact people’s lives in the city, as well as providing a blueprint for achieving these...
Earlier this year Bristol City Council consulted on its Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Strategy for 2019-2024. It is currently recommissioning Rough Sleeping Services, with a view to new contracts being in place at the start of October 2020.
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Carers of all ages in Bristol are invited to share their views in a survey, to help inform a new strategy for Carers Support Services in the city.
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The government is investing up to £11.8 million in additional funding for breakfast clubs in order to support disadvantaged families.
So far around 1,800 school breakfast clubs have been created or improved by the...
The government is consulting on amendments to the licence conditions and codes of practice (LCCP).
It follows the publication of another...