Bristol Infrastructure Organisations
Avon and Bristol Law Centre | Black Development Agency | Bristol Area Neighbourhood Daycare (BAND) | Bristol Community Accountancy Project (BCAP)| Bristol Wireless| The Care Forum | Cherry D | Children’s Fund | Quartet | Refugee Action | Scrapstore | Single Parent Action Network (SPAN) | Social Enterprise Works | The Trinity Community Initiative | Volunteering Bristol | Voscur | Young Bristol
The following organisations provide infrastructure support to frontline organisations in Bristol.
Avon and Bristol Law Centre
Aim
The Law Centre provides a free legal advice and advocacy service for unwaged and low paid people and for people experiencing unlawful discrimination.
We can help people who live or work in Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. Our racial discrimination work covers the south-west region.
All advice is free and confidential.
Type of infrastructure support services provided
Workforce Development
Governance
Volunteering
Equalities
Contact details
0117 924 8662
mail@ablc.demon.co.uk
www.avonandbristollawcentre.org.uk
Black Development Agency (BDA)
Aim
The Black Development Agency (BDA) Limited is the South West’s only Black Council for Voluntary Services (CVS). BDA has developed considerable experience and a positive reputation for working in real partnership with the BME VCS, promoting community involvement, community cohesion and self-help.
BDA’s services include advice and information to new, existing and emerging community groups, advocacy, training in governance/management issues, business planning, organisational development, volunteering, publicity, marketing, quarterly newsletters, briefings and factsheets. BDA facilitates the Consortium of Black Groups (COBG) and its related BME networks, undertaking consultations on a variety of issues and topics relevant to the sector.
0117 939 6645
www.blackdeva.org.uk
Bristol Area Neighbourhood Daycare (BAND)
Aim
BAND is an umbrella organisation that supports and develops childcare provision in and around Bristol. We provide services to childcare providers, people working with children, families and employers. As well as working locally, BAND also plays an active role in national initiatives in the fields of childcare, play provision and working parents' issues, working closely with key agencies. Our role continues to expand as childcare provision increases and we act in an advisory capacity for many bodies, both locally and nationally.
Type of infrastructure support services provided
Performance improvement
Workforce Development
Governance
Volunteering
Finance and funding
Equalities
Representation
Contact details
0117 954 2128
admin@bandltd.org.uk
www.bandltd.org.uk
Bristol Community Accountancy Project (BCAP)
Aim
BCAP offers the following services for community and voluntary organisations, charities, credit unions, development trusts and community businesses:
• Preparation of annual accounts (for small voluntary groups or companies limited by guarantee with income of under £90,000 p.a.)
• Independent examination service (for charities with income under £250,000 p.a.)
• Staff and volunteer training
• Advice on all financial matters applicable to the voluntary sector
• Payroll bureau (both weekly and monthly services)
• Help setting up financial systems and procedures, from petty cash to financial reporting and everything in between
• A twice weekly Helpline is available to members.
We aim to provide professional and affordable services and our friendly staff are available to talk to you about any of the above.
Type of infrastructure support services provided
Workforce Development
ICT
Finance and funding
Contact details
Tel: 0117 377 3388
admin@bcap.info
www.bcap.info
Bristol Wireless
Aim
Bristol Wireless is a cooperative founded in 2002. It provides affordable, low energy, low cost ICT using free and open source software, recycling hardware wherever possible. It also provides free-to-use community wireless networks plus training, support and advocacy.
Type of infrastructure support services provided
ICT
Contact detailswww.bristolwireless.net
The Care Forum
The Care Forum provides infrastructure support for the health and social care voluntary sector in Bristol, Bath & NE Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. They facilitate three health and social care networks; four mental health networks; two older peoples networks and two children and young peoples networks. The Care Forum manages Room 102, a web-based database that holds local and national information on health and well-being services and organisations. They also offer advocacy services providing issue based, client led support and assistance; complaints procedure; mental health advocacy and independent mental capacity (IMCA) advocacy.
Contact details
0117 965 4444
www.thecareforum.org
Cherry D
Aim
To help and support small charitable organisations in Bristol to develop and sustain their services.
Type of infrastructure support services provided
Performance improvement
Workforce Development
Governance
Finance and funding
Contact details
0117 317 9571
hello@cherryd.org
www.cherryd.org
Children’s Fund
Aim
The Children's fund is an initiative from the Government's Children and Young Peoples Unit (CYPU) started in 2001. In August 2001 the Bristol Early Years and Childcare Partnership applied successfully for the first wave of the fund and appointed Barnardos as the accountable body to manage the Bristol Children's Fund for a multi-agency steering group.
The Children's Fund in Bristol will have a total of £4.8m to spend, including £1.6m committed to the On Track programme in Southmead. The money must be used to provide preventative services to those children aged 5 to 13 years whose opportunities in life are thought to be limited by social exclusion risk factors. The fund will focus on children from Lockleaze and Knowle West, as well as those from Black and other minority ethnic backgrounds, families in transit and disabled children.
Type of infrastructure support services provided
Performance improvement
Workforce Development
Volunteering
Finance and funding
Equalities
Representation
Contact details
0117 941 5330
tony.benjamin@barnardos.org.uk
www.barnardos.org.uk/childrensfundbristol
Quartet
Aim
Quartet Community Foundation is a charity that helps donors in Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire to support the local causes and charities they care about and make an impact through their giving.
Set up in 1987, we use our expertise to identify issues of importance to our donors and award grants on their behalf to community charities and voluntary groups making a real difference to people’s lives.
Type of infrastructure support services provided
Performance improvement
Governance
Finance and funding
Equalities
Contact details
0117 9897700
info@quartetcf.org.uk
www.quartetcf.org.uk
Refugee Action
Aim
The Bristol office has an advice team providing direct, phone and consultancy advice services to asylum seekers and their advisers in Bristol, Bath and NE Somerset, North Somerset, Somerset, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire.
Our drop-in service for asylum seekers is available in Bristol, whilst phone and consultancy advice is available across the region. We provide advice on housing and financial support, and entitlement to services, to people seeking asylum.
Type of infrastructure support services provided
Performance improvement
Governance
Volunteering
Finance and funding
Equalities
Representation
Contact details
0117 941 5960
www.refugee-action.org.uk/bristol
Scrapstore
Aim
Children's Scrapstore is a voluntary organisation based in Bristol, UK. The aim of this scrapstore is to take clean and safe waste products from industry and re-use it as a creative resource for children's art and play activities.
Contact details
0117 9085644
enquiries@childrensscrapstore.co.uk
www.childrensscrapstore.co.uk
Single Parent Action Network
Aim
SPAN is a broad umbrella organisation representing the diversity of one parent families across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Our membership includes small single parent self-help groups, individual single parents, large and small organisations who support the needs of one parent families, especially those experiencing disadvantage.
SPAN aims to:
• Give a voice to one parent families living in poverty and isolation
• Support the setting up and development of single parent self-help groups
• Empower single parents to take control over their lives
• Link with one parent groups in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales to exchange information, ideas and practices
• Work with organisations and decision-making bodies in the UK and Europe to improve those policies that affect one parent families.
Our members may be divorced, separated, widowed, never married, heterosexual or gay and from many different backgrounds and cultures.
Type of infrastructure support services provided
Workforce Development
ICT
Governance
Finance and funding
Equalities
Contact details
0117 9514231
info@spanuk.org.uk
www.spanuk.org.uk
Social Enterprise Works
Aim
Social Enterprise Works supports and develops the social enterprise sector in Bristol and the West of England through business development services, sector promotion and strategic influencing. It promotes, encourages and assists the development of ‘not for private profit’ trading activities owned by the community.
Contact details
0117 907 0080
www.socialenterpriseworks.org
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The Trinity Community Initiative
Aim
As part of Trinity's efforts to work more closely with other voluntary
groups, we have launched The Trinity Community Initiative (TCI),
offering free subsidised hall space to local community groups. We are able to provide free hall space between the hours of 9am-5pm Mondays-Fridays for groups that wish to
provide a free service or activity to the local community.
Contact details
0117 935 1200
info@3ca.org.uk
www.3ca.org.uk
Volunteering Bristol
Volunteering Bristol is Bristol’s Volunteer Development Agency. Volunteering Bristol co-ordinates and manages a number of activities including the Time Together Refugee Project. Its core work is ‘The Volunteer Centre – Bristol’ which is a drop-in centre for people seeking volunteering opportunities. It also runs a web-based database of opportunities via the Internet. In addition, Volunteering Bristol services a number of outreach sites throughout the city.
Contact details
0117 989 7734
www.bristolvolunteers.org.uk
Voscur
Aim
Voscur is the lead organisation for the Bristol ChangeUp Consortium; it is a general support and development agency for voluntary, community and social enterprise organisations in the Bristol area. Its purpose is to support and strengthen the diverse and vibrant sector. To achieve this it provides a range of direct support services, brokerage and signposting to other support. It has clear accountable systems, allowing representatives among the members to carry the collective voice of the sector, to strategic partnerships and others, to benefit the city/region.
Contact details
0117 909 9949
www.voscur.org
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Young Bristol
Aim
Young Bristol is a vibrant citywide youth organisation that works in partnership with a range of agencies throughout Bristol. We offer opportunities for young people to develop their skills, achieve goals and build confidence. Young Bristol responds creatively to the needs of all young people by involving them in a variety of projects and activities.
Young Bristol works with young people through local youth clubs plus projects and activities designed for and with young people.
Young Bristol is a voluntary youth organisation working with over 6,200 young people in and around Bristol.
We open our doors to all young people, especially those who are disaffected and socially excluded. We undertake innovative projects and centre based work which:
• Build self respect
• Provide individual support
• Build teamwork
• Provide new opportunities and personal challenges
• Promote positive role models
• Promote healthy lifestyles
• Encourage individuals to achieve their full potential.
Type of infrastructure support services provided
Performance improvement
Governance
Volunteering
Finance and funding
Equalities
Representation
Contact details
0117 953 7921
info@youngbristol.com
www.youngbristol.com