Supporting Voluntary and Community Action
This is the VCSE Directory, a comprehensive listing of Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise organisations in the Bristol area. If you don't see your own organisation listed, you can add your organisation to our directory.
Home-Start is a voluntary organisation committed to promoting the welfare of families with at least one child under five years of age. Volunteers offer weekly support, friendship and practical help to families under stress, in their own homes, helping to prevent family crisis and breakdown. Home-Start Bristol offers a unique service covering a wide geographical area, including Bristol and South Gloucestershire. We are committed to delivering an inclusive service open to families from all... More
Home-Start North Somerset is a family support charity. Our volunteers help families through challenging times with practical support and friendship.
we directly house the homeless, by raising funds from public and private sectors. All money raised goes directly to where its needed i.e paying a deposit and a months rent in advance, We also help them look for employment if gives them back hope and rebuild there lives
We run and manage a community building to provide activities to the local area which includes a youth club and adult learning.
Helping to make Hotwells and Cliftonwood a better place to live by facilitating and supporting community led initiatives. Youth activities have been put on hold and will return when demand returns. We are committed to a Sustainable Environment and facilitate groups involved in Green Spaces and Traffic and Transport. We aim to increase the dialogue between different sections of the community through Community Forums and Community Consultations. We produce a quarterly Newsletter which is... More
CHAS Bristol is a registered charity that provides free, independent and confidential advice on housing problems. Our service is for anyone in housing need in Bristol and surrounding areas, we also provide advice on debt and welfare benefit issues, if related to the primary housing issue. We operate our service by telephone, home visits and outreach appointments at central locations in Bristol.
I am an employment expert, empowering small organisations to deliver good practice when managing people. I offer free compliance checks, and pragmatic, cost effective solutions to problems.
The Hungerford Community Centre is the club for the community built by the community located on Hungerford Road, Brislington.
iContact promote and encourage community, cultural and citizen's orientated film making. We strongly believe in the power of low and no budget film making and that all it really takes to make a film is determination. Our films span a decade and a half and have covered both local and global issues. In this time we have worked with many local community, campaign groups and broadcast media.
Provide 1:1 support, therapy, advice, signposting to adult internet sex-workers in Bristol.
Promoting photography and multimedia storytelling. IC-Visual Lab provides an open forum for the discussion, production and promotion of photography. Through regular events and community based activities ICVL supports the development of the medium we love. Our aim is to help share and explore the potential of photography with new and diverse audiences. We are based in Bristol, South West of England and are open for commissions, collaborations and conversations
Training and facilitation.
Bespoke, peer led self development training called the Domino Effect Project, aimed at individuals who have experienced a major upset in their lives and are ready to change and move on.
A competition SHARPSHOTZ for young people attending secondary schools in Bristol and North Somerset. Utilises documentary and animation films to raise awareness of issues facing young people today. Two winning films are chosen and produced with an annual premiere at the Watershed in Bristol.
THeatre / visual arts / story teling and writing community arts workshops and training.
Improving the Lives of Older People is a community group with the aim of reducing loneliness and isolation.
Imayla - Urban, Rural Creative Connections. We run a range of multi-cultural arts and activity events, courses, residentials and camps inspired by the outdoor environment. Imayla works alongside partner organisations and individuals to respond to the needs of Bristol's inner city communities and develop links between the city and the rural environment. A longer term ambition is to develop an Out of the City facility (approx 1.5 hrs from Bristol) for community use as a Centre for inter... More
In Between Time is a working-class, female-led live art producer based in Bristol and the South West, with an international network and reach.
Since 2001, we have been bringing people, partners and places together through festivals and remarkable artworks and events, to connect, think, reflect, take action, dream and to do things together that they have not yet imagined.
We bring people together around radical art and ideas to encourage new ways to think about the world and... More