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.
St Werburghs Centre is based in east-central Bristol. Our principal activity is to provide meeting spaces and facilities for individuals, community groups and voluntary organisations. The Centre is also available for hire by commercial business and public sector agencies.
The community centre has been operating on this site since 1972. In 1999 St Werburghs Community Association took over the management of the Centre and registered as a charity and company limited by guarantee. In... More
The vision of the Tortworth Forest Centre is to restore one of the country’s most important arboretums at Tortworth, and in doing so, create a vibrant outdoor learning centre available to schools, community groups, teachers and environmental educators across the region. The Centre will aim to nurture the next generation of wildlife enthusiasts and encourage new audiences to learn new skills and engage with conservation.
We are working to restore and manage the Tortworth Arboretum as a community woodland. We run community events, volunteer programmes (including sessions with a focus on improving mental health) and wellbeing projects (like the Hawthorn project, for women in recovery from addiction).
WE OPERATE AND MAINTAIN THE UNDERFALL BOAT YARD AND PATENT SLIPWAY. THE YARD IS A SCHEDULED ANCIENT MONUMENT. BUILDINGS ARE LET OUT TO MARITIME BUSINESSES TO KEEP THOSE SKILLS ALIVE IN BRISTOL, AND TO ENCOURAGE SMALL AND START UP ENTERPRISES. ALL OF OUR SURPLUS FUNDS ARE USED TO MAINTAIN THE BUILDINGS.
The charity's objects ("Objects") are specifically restricted to the following:
4.1 To promote and undertake the conservation, restoration and management for the public benefit of Winterbourne Court Farm Barn and surrounding land at Church Lane, Winterbourne, South Gloucestershire by such exclusively charitable means as the trustees shall from time to time determine.
4.2 The advancement of the public’s knowledge and understanding of the history and architecture of... More