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.
It provides classes in an easy form of Tai Chi suitable for older people for its health benefits; it offers free training and insurance to instructors who act as unpaid volunteers for low or no cost (for suggested but not compulsory donations of £3.00)
We provide free, independent debt advice, energy advice and financial education. A registered charity, we are dedicated to helping people out of financial hardship.
We are an International Development Charity that supports projects around Health, Education and Agriculture and Forestry in Malawi.
TACT (The Adolescent and Children’s Trust) is the UK’s largest fostering and adoption charity and voluntary agency. Working in nine offices across England, Wales and Scotland, we are dedicated to providing effective services and campaigning on behalf of children and young people in care and families.
Amateur drama group
Established in 2015, we are now the UK’s fifth largest provider of education, care and support services for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.
Across our network of pioneering schools, colleges and residential homes, our dedicated and experienced staff work in collaboration with specialist teams of professionals to enable every young person to explore and develop their own unique talents, skills and abilities.
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Provide Compassionate and Feeding Programmes for impoverished children in Kenya enabling them to attend primary schools. We are about to launch a reading programme for local communities throughout Kenya and a project to build a residential and learning centre for orphaned children
The Bridge Foundation for Psychotherapy and the Arts is a well established Bristol based organisation and is a registered charity which was established in 1984.
Therapy and counselling is provided at our main base at Sydenham Rd, Cotham and in a number of outreach places in the inner city area.
The Key aims of the Bridge Foundation are:
• To provide high quality psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy and counselling services to individuals, families, parents, children... More
The Brigstowe Project is a front-line, responsive charity based in Bristol. We provide free confidential support, a social group, peer support porgramme, and information and advice to people in and around Bristol and South Glos living with or affected by HIV. Please see website all contact the office for further information.
We are a comprehensive community bike project. Please see our website for more info. http://www.thebristolbikeproject.org/
The Bristol Cable is redefining local journalism through challenging multimedia, community action and cooperative ownership. Online, in print and on the street.
We are a group of volunteers on a mission to put rainforest trees in classrooms all over Bristol. As well as raising trees we want to raise the ambitions, self-esteem and confidence of all of the children that learn under our trees in their classrooms.
Health and Local Crisis Response - Empowering people to live independently for as long as possible.
The Care Forum promotes health and wellbeing, challenges inequalities and enables organisations and individuals to make choices in health and social care. We support the not-for-profit health and social care sector and provide a wide range of services to communities (Healthwatch, research) and individuals (Well Aware, advocacy, social prescribing, volunteering).
It’s not always easy to recognise the impact of looking after a partner, family member or friend. The Carers’ Centre is a local charity and friendly community, that helps unpaid carers (from 5 years old) across the Bath and North East Somerset area.
The Carers’ Centre offer a range of services to help unpaid carers focus on their own health and wellbeing, connect with others in a similar situation and navigate the challenges of caring.