Bristol City Council has launched a new survey, giving citizens the opportunity to help shape the future of the city as it rebuilds following lockdown and adapts to the challenges posed...
Enabling and building your influence
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.
Commissioning
Ensure your expertise, and clients' perspectives and aspirations, help to shape local commissioning strategies by influencing relevant decision-makers.
Sector Leaders
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.
Inclusion
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.
Latest News
Building Back paper from ACAS calls for more inclusive and flexible workplaces
A new policy paper from Sir Brendan Barber, ACAS Chair from 2014-2020, calls for fairer, more inclusive and flexible workplaces and a new workplace contract as the nation recovers from...
Participants with experience of supporting women suffering domestic abuse wanted for new study
A University of Bristol research team is seeking participants who have experience of supporting a woman who has suffered abuse from a partner or family member.
The Building...
Number of serious incidents reported by charities doubles in a year
The number of serious incidents reported to the Charity Commission has increased by 47% since last year.
The figure, published in the regulator’s recent annual report, show that 5,...
Charity Commission to launch new register
The Charity Commission has stated that it intends to launch a new online register of charities, with the aim of making it easier for the public to find information on the organisations which they...
VCSE organisations and academics call for universities to engage with them in taskforce and research roadmap
More than 550 Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) organisations and academics have signed an open letter to Research England and to UK national newspapers, calling for a...
Government announces £85 million match fund
The government has opened the Community Match Challenge – a match-funding scheme for initiatives supporting the coronavirus response.
Under the scheme, grant makers can apply for a share of...
The Fore - core recovery grants
The Fore’s RAFT Transition Fund is offering unrestricted grants of up to £15,000 to help small charities and social enterprises plan for the longer term and gain a stronger footing in a...
Feeding Bristol launches Health Holidays summer appeal
Feeding Bristol has launched its Healthy Holidays fundraising appeal to help more than 14,250 disadvantaged children over the school holidays.
Money raised will go towards...
Briefing: Charity Commission inquiry into RNIB
The Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) is one of the UK’s leading sight loss charities and the largest community of blind and partially sighted people.
In March...
Charity Digital Skills Report 2020: Coronavirus, funding and skills gaps
The Charity Digital Skills Report 2020 has been released, exploring the state of digital skills across the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector, and tracking the...
Community cafes encouraged to participate in Eat Out to Help Out scheme
Charities are being reminded that they can register their restaurant or establishment for the Eat Out to Help...
Supporting local impact
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