Michal Grant

Area in Focus

The car park kickabouts tackling anti-social behaviour in Hartcliffe

Football charity the Robins Foundation responded to reports of antisocial behaviour outside Hartcliffe’s Morrisons by organising football sessions in its car park. It’s led to a claimed 60% drop in complaints.

Michal Grant
Michal Grant

People's History

From dubious mermaids to harsh prison conditions: how Fred Little documented Bristol a century ago

Michal Grant
Michal Grant

Features

‘He was our godfather’: Bristol musicians remember Mark Stewart

Michal Grant
Michal Grant
A bearded man holds a small green shoot on an allotment site

Features

‘You needed young people’: how one man nurtured a community on an east Bristol allotment site

Tenants of Bristol’s sought-after allotments are pushing back hard on council proposals to hike fees. But back in the 1980s, plots in Eastville at Royate Hill were unloved and at risk – until Mike Feingold took custody of the land.

Michal Grant Naz Mahmoudzadeh
Michal Grant and Naz Mahmoudzadeh
Image of Xeena Cooper, The Next Test chair (credit: Alexander Turner)

Features

‘We need people to step up now’: the Bristolians working to save cricket from climate change

Michal Grant
Michal Grant
Image of young people on the streets of St Pauls Carnival in 1985 (credit: Andy 'Beezer' Beese)

Features

‘Crazy summers, days of rage’: how Beezer’s camera immortalised 1980s Bristol

Michal Grant
Michal Grant

Features

Image of Liam Meredith, a mentor at Key4Life charity (credit: David Griffiths)

‘I was a prisoner of my mind’: how a Bristol charity is helping to cut reoffending among young men

Key4Life, based in Easton, is helping to reduce youth reoffending in Bristol through an innovative rehab programme aimed at men under 30 who are leaving prison or at risk of going inside.

Michal Grant
Michal Grant

Features

‘We don’t want children leaving school illiterate’: how schools need to step up for dyslexic students

Mike Jones was bullied at school in the 1970s because he couldn't spell his name. Almost four decades later, he developed a program that now helps thousands of dyslexic children learn.

Michal Grant
Michal Grant

Opinion

‘Zero-tolerance behaviour policy may be contributing to exclusion of Bristol’s most vulnerable students’

Michal Grant has worked with many kids excluded from mainstream education who say the Ready to Learn behavioural system is failing them.

Michal Grant
Michal Grant