community

Local Elections 2021

Green spaces a priority for voters in Horfield, where every vote could be crucial

Green spaces, litter and a community space are key issues in Horfield, where the Tories and Labour were neck and neck in the last council election.

Matty Edwards
Matty Edwards

Bristol and the Climate Crisis

Can community energy projects help Bristol get to net zero?

A community organisation in Lawrence Weston has got permission to build England’s biggest onshore wind turbine, but other communities in Bristol are helping us transition to green energy. Here are some of their stories.

Nick Dowson

Coronavirus in Bristol

New emergency fund to support people facing fuel poverty because of Covid-19

The Emergency Covid Winter Fund has been set up as fuel poverty charities deal with ‘unprecedented’ numbers of referrals.

Jess Connett
Jess Connett

Features

Helping people from Bristol’s Somali community deal with lockdown 2

For members of Bristol’s Somali community already living in difficult circumstances, the second lockdown has made life even harder. But the Bristol Somali Resource Centre has stepped in.

James Rogerson
James Rogerson

Black History Month

Watch: Vulnerability, escapism and creativity, my experiences of lockdown as a young Bristolian

Lockdown left young people in the city feeling stranded, dislocated from their usual connections. Here, a young aspiring writer reflects on school, writing and the new sense of self-confidence that grew over those months

Shaheim Minzie Priyanka Raval
Shaheim Minzie, Olumide Osinoiki, Manoel Bolutife Akure and Priyanka Raval

Video

Watch: The struggle for the future of Britain’s best street

A furore has kicked off over proposals to pedestrianise one of Bristol's most iconic streets, St Marks Road, with famous shop Sweetmart threatening to leave! Easton native Neil Maggs investigates whats going on behind the headlines.

Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media Adam Cantwell-Corn
Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media, Matt Buckner and Adam Cantwell-Corn

Video

Watch: Resilience – An uplifting story of young mums on one of the UK’s oldest council estates

A short documentary of young mums overcoming stigma through friendship on one of the UK's oldest council estates, Hillfields in Bristol.

Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media Adam Cantwell-Corn
Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media, Matt Buckner, The treatmentworx and Adam Cantwell-Corn

Features

Grub’s up: the projects tackling food poverty and social isolation

We investigate the community projects grappling with Bristol’s growing food poverty.

Arvind Howarth
Arvind Howarth

Podcasts

Listen: When football meets anti-fascism – The Easton Cowgirls and Cowboys

Terry and Duke sit down with Kev and Sensi from Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls, to discuss the origins of this historic club, extraordinary oversees trips and how they mix activism and sport.

Jack Newcombe and Dave Wilcox

housing Bristol

Some locals are financially benefiting from gentrification in St Pauls. But at a cost.

Crime may be down, and some locals are cashing in but there’s nostalgia for a different St Pauls.

Henry Palmer

Video

Watch: Authenticity in Cadbury Heath

Janice has been working at a family run community project for 22 years in Cadbury Heath, which is trying to fill the gaps left by austerity.

Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media Adam Cantwell-Corn
Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media, Matt Buckner and Adam Cantwell-Corn

Cable Community News

My journey into journalism

One Bristol Cable Media Lab graduate’s journey into journalism.

Anna Kostyrina
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