Bristol community resources

This article is an offshoot of Bristol community action focusing on community resources and assets. Resources such as community involvement, networks and events (people and relationships) can be considered as primary resources. Also resources are the activism and physical assets (or what citizens value), such as green spaces and biodiversity, cycle lanes, etc, from other Bristol pages.

Video archive

• A Good Food Plan For Bristol

Networks, sustainability initiatives and community involvement

• Bristol Food Network
• Edible Bristol, Growing the UK's first edible city. Edible Bristol volunteers cultivate food justice by supporting communities, individuals and businesses to grow food across the city. link checked 15:11, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
• Bristol Food Union, added 16:40, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
• Bristol Junk Food on facebook
• 91 Ways, using the power of food to bring people together
• Allotments and gardens, information from Bristol City Council
• Edible futures
• Grow Wilder, Avon Wildlife Trust
• Avon Organic Group

External links in this section checked 14:38, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

Local food

• Bristol Local Food Directory

Community farms

• Lawrence Weston Community Farm, community-managed project that aims to improve the quality of life for local people. added 15:50, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Community supported agriculture

• Sims Hill Shared Harvest, community supported agriculture scheme

City farms

• Windmill Hill City Farm
• St Werburghs City Farm

Policy

• Bristol Food Policy Council

Past events

• Jun 4 - 5, 2016, Get-Growing-Garden-Trail-2016.pdf
• Apr 29 - May 7, 2016, Bristol Food Connections, bringing people and good food together
• May 1 - 11, 2014, Bristol Food Connections, bringing people and good food together
• May 5, 2014, Eat-In! Bristol

Food security

• FoodCycle Bristol Barton Hill, added 14:17, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

Networks

• Bristol Energy Network, umbrella organisation for all community energy groups in Bristol and the surrounding area

External links

• Bristol Energy Co-operative
• Bristol Green Doors, domestic green refurbishment & retrofitting
• Demand Energy Equality, Bristol-based energy justice project that seeks to empower and power low income households
• Bristol Smart Energy City Collaboration
• Easton Community Energy Group, Laying a brand new grid with David and Damon in Bristol
• 1010uk.org (no date found)
• Owen Square Community Energy, cooperative member-based local energy supply company jointly operated by Easton Community Centre, local energy group Easton Energy Group and Bristol-based microgrid developer CEPRO

Funding

• Bristol Community Energy Fund

• Stokes Croft Land Trust, "Stokes Croft is one of the most independent and iconic areas of Bristol. Now it is time to secure the future of our community's land… for the community. " added 16:35, 10 November 2021 (UTC)
• Bristol Community Land Trust, link checked 16:35, 10 November 2021 (UTC)

• WeCanMake, community land trust and neighbourhood test-space in Bristol, imagining and making new ways to create homes that build social infrastructure and community wealth. added 17:07, 13 January 2025 (UTC)
• Tiny House Community Bristol, "registered Community Benefit Society, formed by a grassroots group of driven people who are pioneering a socially and environmentally regenerative housing movement for all."
• Green building: Bristol Green House, link checked 10:46, 31 July 2023 (UTC)

• The Matthew Tree Project, poverty fighting charity based in Bristol
• re:work

• Artspace Lifespace, registered Charity recycling vacant, under-used and problem properties into thriving creative resources. Artspace Lifespace on youtube.com, added 15:56, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
• Zion Community Art Space, Bedminster Down
• Environment centre: Create Centre and Ecohome, hosting a range of events and exhibitions, owned and managed by Bristol City Council.
• Peak oil: Building a positive future for Bristol after Peak Oil

Citizens data initiative

• Bristol City Council open data

Maps for community action

• bristolstreets.co.uk, map based information about transport and other things in and around the city of Bristol. See also BristolStreets
• Bristol City Council mapping website
• Sustainable energy: Bristol solar map on bristol.gov.uk

Funding

• Bristol Credit Union
• Bristol Soup

Apps for sustainability

• Bristol Parkhive, provides an index of over 200 of Bristols parks and green spaces and provides ample additional information for users. European Green Capital
• Bristol Pound Mobile App

Community currencies activism

Bristol pound

• Bristol Commons, added 22:28, 15 March 2026 (UTC)

More video: Make Sunday Special Bristol City Council - Come and enjoy a car free Bristol City Centre, June 2013 YouTube

• Knowle West Media Centre, arts centre and charity based in South Bristol, on the Knowle West estate, supporting people "to make positive changes in their lives and communities, using technology and the arts to come up with creative solutions to problems and explore new ways of doing things." link checked 15:34, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
• Bristol Civic Society
• Happy City
• At-Bristol science centre
• Make Sundays Special
• Wikipedia:Bristol#Twin cities: Bristol was among the first cities to adopt the idea of town twinning. Its twin towns include:

• Bordeaux, France since 1947
• Hannover, Germany since 1947, the first post-war twinning of British and German cities

Other twinnings include:

• Porto, Portugal since 1984
• Tbilisi, Georgia since 1988
• Puerto Morazan, Nicaragua since 1989
• Beira, Mozambique since 1990
• Guangzhou, China since 2001

• Bristol Computer Reuse
• Bristol Wood Recycling Project, a not for profit social enterprise, dependent on volunteers as well as paid staff, and part of the National Community Wood Recycling Project ^W
• Children's Scrapstore
• Recycling and waste, information from Bristol City Council

Regular events

Bristol Repair Cafe first Saturday monthly in Fishponds