Get involved in your community
Get involved in your community
What’s happening in your community and how you can get involved.
Across Bristol people are getting together to take action on issues that interest them. We’re helping people share ideas, talents, skills and passions to make a difference to where they live.
How we can help you
See our Community Offer guide (pdf, 437KB) (opens new window) for how we can help you work with your local neighbourhood and other community organisations.
Find out more
Find out where we are working and who your local community development officers are on our digital map.
Hear about our residents’ great ideas, fun new projects and community groups on our Community Development Facebook page.
Read about local people doing amazing things in:
Find out what we've learned through Asset Based Community Development and what people are doing in their neighbourhoods in:
- Hartcliffe, October 2019
- Filwood, April 2019
- Henbury, October 2018
- Sea Mills, May 2018
- Lawrence Weston, May 2018
Community workers
Find out who's working in your neighbourhood and how to get in touch with them on the community workers' digital map.
Mayor conversation May 2019
In May 2019 the Mayor held an event for community workers about the One City Approach and how we can create more citizen-led social action in the city.
See our Mayor's conversation with community workers report (pdf, 1.8MB) (opens new window) for more information.
Learning Circles: help to develop your practice
A Learning Circle is a co-produced, self-organised space where you can come together. This is used to explore opportunities to support more citizen-led social action in your work or neighbourhood.
See our Learning Circles sheet (pdf, 227KB) (opens new window) to learn more and how to get involved.
Community tools
We've developed some creative ways to start a conversation in your community.
Community events
Meet others in your community and get involved with decision making in your area
February 2019: A group of citizens organised an event called People Power: From Hibernation to Social Action. This provided a space to share experiences, learn from each other and get new ideas.
January 2019: The community development team and the Community Organising Social Action Hub ran a three-day workshop as part of the Barton Hill Settlement Network project. 35 people attended the workshop.
November 2018: Citizens from Filwood and Knowle West and members of the community development team visited the Netherlands to find out about community development work in The Hague. Find out about the projects they visited and what they learned in their report (pdf, 327KB) (opens new window) .
Community films
Here are some amazing things that people are doing across the city. What could you do in your neighbourhood?