Partners and network links

Wider network links

Bishopston

• Bishopston, Redland and Cotham Neighbourhood Partnership

  This is one of Bristol's 14 partnerships representing devolution of decision-making to local communities, in this case across our ward and neighbouring Redland and Cotham. See the "Neighbourhood" for more about our relationship with the NP.

• Friends of St Andrews Park

  Friends of St Andrews Park are a key partner to Bishopston Society and we too love the park! Their web site is excellent - many discussions on local hot topics, lots of great photographs of the wild life etc, all extremely lively and interesting.... Have a look now!

• Sustainable Bishopston

  The local 'green' group, looking at ways to live our lives in a more environmentally friendly way.

• Bishopston Matters

  Free monthly 'Magazine' giving news of local events and advertisements for local businesses

• Bishopston, Horfield & Ashley Down Local History Society

  Formed in 1988 to encourage knowledge, appreciation and preservation of local history in the area.

• Gloucester Road Traders' Association

  This is the 'Official Website' for Bristol’s Gloucester Road. It is a business orientated site that supports the local Independent traders.

• GRAB campaign (and 'Love Gloucester Road')

  GRAB - The Gloucester Road Alternative Bag Campaign - is a group of local residents, shoppers and traders who are interested in helping the Gloucester Road become more sustainable - environmentally and economically. BishopstonSociety supports GRAB....and we love Gloucester Road!

• Horfield and District Allotments Association

  Local allotment organisation

• Horfield Organic Community Orchard

  Horfield Organic Community Garden was set up in 1998. The orchard is planted to show that local grown fruit can be eaten and enjoyed all year round.

• Howzat campaign

  HowZat? is a campaign group formed by local residents from Bishopston and Ashley Down. The objective of the group is to challenge and revise the stadium expansion plans put forward by Gloucestershire County Cricket Club (GCCC). Bishopston Society supports Howzat

• The Gloucester Road Story

  This site tells the 'then and now' story of living and trading on Gloucester Road in Bristol from the late 1800's up to the present day

• Walk with us through North Bristol

  This site explores the archaeology and history of North Bristol communitie

Neighbourhood

• Carriageworks

  A group working to develop the long neglected Stokes Croft site. The Overall Vision of this group: The Carriageworks development will make a positive contribution to the economy, culture and environment of Stokes Croft and the surrounding area. It will be home to many activities, businesses and people and will be a buzzing vibrant place, busy with people not just from the local area but who have travelled from further afield. The local community wants to see the dereliction of this site addressed as a priority and it will work with any organisation that shares its vision for the future.

• Friends of Horfield Common

  A group of volunteers working to ensure that Horfield Common – including Wellington Hill Playing Field, and the Ardagh – are able to be made use of, and enjoyed by the local community as the amazing assets that they are for the area and it’s residents.

• Friends of St Andrews Park

  Friends of St Andrews Park are a key partner to Bishopston Society and we too love the park! Their web site is excellent - many discussions on local hot topics, lots of great photographs, particularly of the park's wildlife - all extremely lively and interesting.... Have a look now!

• Hamilton House

  Coexist hosts Hamilton House as a space in which we collectively live, work, play and innovate to create a better world for each other, our community and the environment. Coexist is a social enterprise, set up as a community interest company based on a philosophy of open hearted and active engagement. We empower members of the community on Stokes Croft to lead its development and have incubated new creative projects and social businesses from conception to sustainability.

• Narroways Millenium Green Trust

  Narroways Hill is a little grassy & wooded ridge dissected by railway lines lying just North of inner-city Bristol, in the neighbourhood of St Werburghs. It has always been an open space and as the city has encroached around it, its value as a green sanctuary has increased.

• People's Republic of Stokes Croft

  Part of the mission statement: We will provide benefit to The Community by promoting the interests of the area, and by seeking to work with the skills of the whole Community to influence the direction in which this area develops. PRSC will seek to promote and bring to fruition the notion of Stokes Croft as a Cultural Quarter, as a destination. PRSC will seek to promote creativity and activity in the local environment, thereby generating prosperity, both financial and spiritual.

• Phoenix Hedge Preservation Group

  This 700 year old + hedge runs between Henleaze Park and Phoenix Grove. The 295ft (90m) long boundary straddles the Henleaze Junior School playing fields and Golden Hill Sports Ground.

• Redland and Cotham Amenity Society

  One of our neighbourhood sister organisations, Redland and Cotham Amenities Society was founded in 1973, its general aim is to preserve and enhance the character of the Cotham area, its architecture, trees and amenities, for the benefit of present and future residents.

• Redland Green Community Group

  The aims of the group are to maintain, develop and promote the amenity and heritage of Redland Green for the benefit of the local community and those who use the Green.

• Stoke Park Action Group

  Stoke Park Action Group is a member group of Lockleaze Voice – a community group formed to ensure the views of the Lockleaze community of Bristol are heard by those making decisions that affect our neighbourhood

• Sustainable Redland

  Sustainable Redland started in 2005. We are not an ‘institution’ – we have no staff and no committee. We are one of many local groups working on how Bristolians will thrive beyond oil, and on lightening our impact on the ecosystems on which we depend. We are part of Transition Bristol and the Transition Network.

• The Bishopston, Cotham and redland Community Partnership
• The Henleaze Society

  The Henleaze Society was founded in 1973, is established as a charity and has a membership of around 1500 households.  It aims to ensure that Henleaze remains a good place to live and work.

• The Kingsdown Conservation Group

  The Kingsdown Conservation Group tries to protect and enhance the area, and stimulate public interest in it. The Conservation Area Character Appraisal sets out the City Council’s policies for Kingsdown.

• Visit Stokes Croft

  A website aiming to inform about the community of Stokes Croft - Quarter of Culture, Centre for Ideas.

Bristol

• Bristol City Council

  Bristol City Council

• Supporting Healthy Inclusive Neighbourhood Environments HIT

  The Supporting Healthy Inclusive Neighbourhood Environments Health Integration Team (SHINE HIT) aims to turn Bristol into a healthier city, with built environments that help people to be more healthy. This will be achieved by integrating health, well-being and social inclusion with urban development and planning to reduce health risks and promote healthier lifestyles

• About Bristol Picture Tour

  "About Bristol is a series of pictorial tours designed to show both well-known and lesser-known aspects of Bristol, and to provide a few facts about this historic English city and county."

• Art and the Public Realm, Bristol

  Mission statement: Bristol is one of the leading city’s in the UK for public art commissioning and for its programme of projects with artists of local, national and international significance. Our programme focuses on the development of visionary public art works across the city, outside of the conventional gallery and museum setting.

• Bristol Civic Society

  Our vision is for a city full of activity, diversity and beauty, attractive for living in, work and leisure. A place its citizens are proud of, and a place that people want to visit, especially through its buildings, facilities and public spaces.

• Bristol Green Capital

  The Bristol Green Capital Partnership is a free membership organisation whose aim is to make Bristol “a low carbon city with a high quality of life for all”.

• Bristol Green Doors

  Bristol Green Doors runs educational events to inspire, encourage and enable domestic green refurbishment in our community and support others to do the same.

• Bristol Independent Shops

  Campaigning group aiming to keep local highstreets alive by encouraging the use of local independent retailers, cafes, restaurants.

• Bristol Natural History Consortium

  The Bristol Natural History Consortium currently has 11 members who work collaboratively within the BNHC charitable structure. Our membership reflects Bristol's reputation as a leading centre for the understanding and appreciation of the natural world, although our programmes have national reach and impact.

• Bristol Neighbourhood Planning Network

  A network of voluntary groups within the Bristol area, working together to help themselves and each other get better involvement in how their neighbourhoods are developed, through the planning system.

• Bristol Parks Forum

  Bristol Parks Forum was established by Bristol Parks as an umbrella organisation for community park groups and organisations in the city with an interest in their local parks and green spaces. The forum is supported by Bristol City Council but acts independently and is currently the only ‘community voice’ that is dedicated to all of Bristol’s green spaces.

• Bristol Tree Forum

  Bristol Tree Forum is a large band of volunteers dedicated to increasing the tree canopy cover of Bristol”. Activities: Comment on Planning Policies and Applications, find locations to plant new trees, help link up with interested parties and community groups, source funding, protect veteran trees……

• Bristol Walking Alliance

  The Bristol Walking Alliance is a consortium of organisations and individuals campaigning to improve Bristol’s walking environment.  We want to create an environment for pedestrians that is welcoming, safe, convenient and inclusive.

• Design Bristol

  Design Bristol is a forum for anyone involved or interested in achieving quality place-making in Bristol. This could include built environment professionals, neighbourhood groups, students, or people who simply enjoy strolling around the city taking in the atmosphere.

• helpfulpeeps

  Helpfulpeeps is a Bristol based startup that is creating a community where people share their time, energy, skills and knowledge to help each other for free. They have a simple ethos: ask for whatever you need, help whenever you can. Their mission is to bring back community spirit in the digital age.

• Know Your Place

  Know Your Place is a Bristol City Council website that allows you to explore your neighbourhood through historic maps, images and linked information. Know Your Place allows wider access to Bristol's historic maps for you to share your own information and images about Bristol.

• Living Heart for Bristol

  The Living Heart for Bristol campaign aims to improve the central areas of Bristol and create new public space by diverting through-traffic.

• Shop Local Bristol

  Promoting Bristol's local shops, markets, cafes/restaurants, pubs, hairdressers etc. Run by Bristol City Council.

• The Architecture Centre

  The Architecture Centre exists to foster a greater understanding and enjoyment of architecture and to promote the value of a better built environment.

• The Bristol Bike Project

  Main aim: to provide a valuable and empowering service for underprivileged and marginalised groups of people within our community whose lives would greatly improve through the benefit of having accessible, affordable and sustainable transportation.

• The Bristol Student Community Partnership

  The Bristol Student Community Partnership has been established to increase community confidence by bringing together partners and provide a co-ordinated approach to promote student/community relations and cohesion, in the context of the positive contribution of both universities in Bristol.

• The Cheese Project

  The CHEESE pilot project was setup in March 2015 with funding from Bristol Green Capital 2015. The CHEESE Project aims to reduce domestic energy losses, at low cost, by up to a third. This saves money, improves health and wellbeing and, reduces our carbon emissions.

• The Sweet History?

  The Sweet History? website explores the impact of the sugar and slave trades on the built environment of Bristol. It includes activities and education resources to support the school curriculum. The website has been developed by the Archirecture Centre, Bristol in partnership with young people from the Knowle West Media Centre.

• Trees of Bristol
  This site provides an interactive guide to the trees in Bristol and surrounds.
  
  
  Currently there are 66,066 live trees in the database and 67,303 including stumps, of which 16,087 are street trees, covering 1,062 species, varieties and cultivars in 2,310 sites.
• University of Bristol Botanic Garden

  Welcome to a beautiful garden filled with a huge diversity of plants, including many exotic species set in inspirational displays against the backdrop of a striking Victorian house.

• Voscur

  This site contains a wide range of information and resources tailored for Bristol's Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS)

• WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments

  Based at the University of the West of England, the WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments promotes healthy and sustainable settlements through research, teaching, consultancy, knowledge exchange and publications. We work closely with municipalities, planning consultancies and health authorities in the UK, as well as with the wider WHO European Healthy Cities network.

National

• Royal Town Planning Institute

  RTPI is the UK's largest leading planning body for spatial, sustainable and inclusive planning. It is a charity whose purpose is to advance the science and art of planning for the benefit of the public'.

• CAG consultants

  CAG consultants is a cooperative business, one of the UK’s leading sustainability, climate change and community engagement consultancies. We provide practical and policy level solutions to economic, social and environmental issues in the public sector. Together with our delivery partnerswe work in local communities, towns and cities as well as at regional and national levels.

• Civic Voice

  Civic Voice is the national charity for the civic movement in England.  It makes places more attractive, enjoyable and distinctive. It promotes civic pride.

• Joseph Roundtree Trust

  Working for lasting change for people and places in poverty, communities where everyone can thrive and a more equal society. Now and for future generations.

• Locality

  Locality is the leading nationwide network for community-led organisations.

• Sustrans

  .Sustrans is a leading UK charity enabling people to travel by foot, bike or public transport for more of the journeys we make every day

• The West of England Nature Partnership

  Developing and advocating an investment strategy for the natural environment of the West of England to support economic development and public health.

• Transition Network

  Transition Network is a charitable organisation whose role is to inspire, encourage, connect, support and train communities as they self-organise around the Transition model, creating initiatives that rebuild resilience and reduce CO2 emissions.