Voscur works to ensure local organisations can represent the people they serve. We do this through our network of Sector Leaders, by connecting groups with policymakers, and directly through our staff and trustees.
Ensure your expertise, and clients' perspectives and aspirations, help to shape local commissioning strategies by influencing relevant decision-makers.
Voscur's Sector Leaders represent our collective voice through their role on strategic decision-making and policy boards across the city, because we're stronger and more effective working together.
The disadvantages that equalities groups and marginalised communities face in Bristol is both structural and often invisible, so we use positive action to address such inequalities.
Coordination in Place: New report on local collaboration, from NPC
New Philanthropy Capital (known as NPC) has published a new report about place-based (geographical) collaboration, called Coordination in Place, to examine how attitudes to collaborating...
Life Cycle UK offers free cycle parking for Bristol VCSE organisations
Advertorial content created by Life Cycle UK, for Voscur
Local charity and Voscur member Life Cycle UK is offering free cycle stands to voluntary, community and social enterprise (...
Bristol’s mayoral election: What can the winning candidate deliver for the sector?
Bristolians will be able to vote in a number of elections on 6 May, using their cross to decide who they think should represent them for city mayor, West of England Combined Authority (‘...
Bristol One City Leaders Group responds to disorder in the city
Members of Bristol City Leaders group today (25 March 2021) issued a statement in response to disturbances in the city:
“As individuals who live and work in Bristol and represent...
Bristol's Commission on Race Equality responds to racist attacks on the Mayor and Deputy Mayor
Professor Olivette Otele has led the Bristol's Commission on Race Equality's response to the rise in racist attacks directed at Mayor Marvin Rees and Deputy Mayor Asher Craig, since the...
BSWN launches major new report on Bristol’s VCSE sector future beyond COVID-19
Black South West Network (BSWN) has launched an important new report focusing on Bristol’s voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector and its recovery after COVID-19.
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New Youth Zone for South Bristol: Youth Moves partnership with OnSide
South Bristol charity and Voscur member Youth Moves has partnered with national charity OnSide Youth Zones to create the South West’s first Youth Zone: a new building with open access...
Blog: How much progress has been made to reduce Bristol’s digital divide?
By Tom Burnett, Policy and Information Officer, Voscur
Although a digital divide existed in the UK well before the coronavirus pandemic, how digital exclusion compounds existing ...
Bristol Remembers: Film and testimonials marking one year of the pandemic
As we reflect on 12 months of life-changing regulations to try and stop the spread of COVID-19, a range of Bristol organisations will mark the occasion by releasing a new short film...
Bristol seeks active role for community in slavery reparations
Bristol’s local councillors have voted overwhelmingly to drive forward the conversation around Bristol’s role in the Transatlantic Traffic of Enslaved Afrikans (TTEA). The vote was the...
Ninety-six per cent of single parents call for protection under the Equality Act
A new report from Single Parent Rights has revealed that 96% of single parents want being a single parent added as a protected characteristic in the Equality Act, reflecting the...
Social investment is helping Bristol #BuildBackBetter
As we begin to think about emerging from the worst of the pandemic, economic recovery is high on the agenda - alongside tackling entrenched inequalities. According to ONS figures, the UK...
ACORN
Following a community organising campaign, ACORN UK started in 2014 when a group of residents in Easton joined together to take action against unscrupulous landlords. Through a network of volunteers trained and empowered to organise in their local communities, ACORN currently works to combat evictions, fight rip-off tenancy fees and insist on