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Join us in making our people and communities fairer, stronger and more connected. Strengthening people, sparking community and shifting power in Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond www.grapevinecovandwarks.org #GrapevineAt30
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#JOB Did you know 63 per cent of young people with learning disabilities in Coventry leave school with no qualifications? We are funded to help 35 of the most disadvantaged disabled children with special educational needs. And we are looking for a full-time youth project worker to work with them! 1/
Coventry Poverty Alliance—convened by Grapevine and
@ce-lawcentre.bsky.social since 2022—met yesterday for the final time this year. The meeting came the day before the Autumn Budget, due to be delivered by Chancellor Rachel Reeves this lunchtime. 1/
November 26, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Survivor Sanctuary—part of our Connecting For Good Cov ecosystem for a connected, inclusive city—host their #WhiteRibbonDay event at Coventry Central Hall later from 6-8pm. An evening of poetry, stories, zine and badge-making, crafts, refreshments, connection and solidarity 💝
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Want to join our team and work with brilliant young people like these two? Join us this January as our new youth project worker! You'll be fun, creative and confident. Co-designing activities with young people, focusing on what matters to them and meeting them where they are. 1/
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Great team effort yesterday promoting the 'Need The Loo' campaign—led by Coventry people and supported by our community organising team. We will keep pushing for change so everyone is included in city centre life. Read more here 🚽🧻💜 bit.ly/3JM4WIQ #WorldToiletDay
November 20, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Happy #WorldToiletDay! It's great we're talking about dignity, equality, inclusion... but why is it relevant to Coventry? A small but mighty team of residents supported by our Connecting for Good community organisers is working on improving access to public toilets in our city 1/
November 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
#JOB Did you know 63 per cent of young people with learning disabilities in Coventry leave school with no qualifications? We are funded to help 35 of the most disadvantaged disabled children with special educational needs. And we are looking for a full-time youth project worker to work with them! 1/
November 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Two weeks to go until our #FuelPovertyAwarenessDay. Download our Stakeholder Support Pack and help support the millions of people unable to keep their homes warm and healthy this winter: www.nea.org.uk/fpad
November 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
On #WorldToiletDay (19 Nov) campaigners Need The Loo supported by our #ConnectingForGoodCov community organisers host their first big event with residents, @coventrycc.bsky.social, businesses, Age UK and @colostomyuk.bsky.social to share why public toilet access in Coventry is so vital for all 🚽
November 12, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Cutting disability support doesn’t help disabled people into work.

Disabled people need accessible jobs and compassionate support 💚
November 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
#TrusteesWeek 🥳 Celebrating trustees whose time, effort and dedication helps charities like us thrive. Our trustees play a vital role—bringing their lived experiences, professional expertise, passion and ideas to help shape, sustain and grow our work: bit.ly/3XbabEP
November 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Our final #GrapevineAt30 blog on why equal collaboration between communities and institutions is vital if we are to make a sea change for people everywhere—but particularly the 'doubly disadvantaged' places identified for Pride in Place programme funding: bit.ly/3WDmGsJ
November 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
JOB VACANCY CLOSING THURSDAY! Work for us as a community organiser on Nature Towns and Cities, and nurture your career at the same time. Full-time role in Coventry—follow link for details and to apply: bit.ly/43i2pMO Here are five reasons why you should join our team 1/
October 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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💼 Community Organiser for Nature in Towns and Cities at @grapevinecovwarks.bsky.social

Work alongside local communities to build greener, healthier Coventry neighbourhoods.

actbuildchange.com/opportunitie...
Community Organiser for Nature in Towns and Cities at Grapevine Coventry and Warwickshire
Work alongside communities to build greener, healthier Coventry neighbourhoods.
actbuildchange.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Now in the final weeks celebrating #GrapevineAt30, we’re revisiting three themes from our story of 30 years of deep social change. Today: Strengthening Democracy—a very relevant topic and never far from our thoughts, given how we started 2025 with a fight: bit.ly/47eV5mt
October 16, 2025 at 9:49 AM
#AdvocacyAwarenessWeek #AAW25 💫 Shining a light on the powerful impact advocacy has on people's lives. To illustrate this year's theme of #AdvocacyWorks and how it works within our innovative ecosystem of other Grapevine support, we share Lilly’s story 💜 bit.ly/4qtrCyb @ndtihello.bsky.social
October 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
We're hiring for a full-time community organiser working on 'Nature in Towns and Cities' in Coventry, primarily in Hillfields. Do you want to work alongside communities, helping them come together to create greener, healthier urban areas? Join our team! bit.ly/43i2pMO
October 14, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Two job centre work coaches employed to help disabled people find employment have told the BBC they are "struggling" to find employers willing and able to make reasonable adjustments to get more people into work. Our project worker Kitty Wright agrees.. 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Stretched job centre staff struggling to get disabled people into work
The government wants work coaches to provide personalised support, but some have caseloads of up to 200 people.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
NEW BLOG #GrapevineAt30 | At the crux of a local issue was a community feeling powerless to change things. In our process of creating conversations, relationships and strategy, something deeper took root—an emerging sense of power, confidence, possibility: bit.ly/435nKcl
October 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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This Is Our Town, Don’t Let Us Down – Community Power Against Cuts

In our latest blog post we sat down with @grapevinecovwarks.bsky.social to discuss how they successfully organised against council budget cuts.

Read the full discussion here: actbuildchange.com/ideas/this-i...
October 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
NEW BLOG #GrapevineAt30 | Divides that keep people apart, a lack of genuine two-way connections and relationships that allow cruelty and harassment to flourish—the power of connection and relationships to overcome these divides flows through our work 👉 bit.ly/3KByV6n
October 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM
NEW BLOG | "THIS IS OUR TOWN, DON'T LET US DOWN—#Coventry community power against cuts: How Grapevine successfully fought back against local budget cuts and what we learned in the process."
Here's a bit of context on what we shared with @actbuildchange.com for this new blog... 1/
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Building trust, hope and agency in times of conflict and fearmongering—ambitions to bring communities together to form solutions on common ground can’t be realised without actively showing people they can shape the future. What we're doing in #Coventry: bit.ly/41YIIcw
September 18, 2025 at 11:17 AM
#JOB #WorkWithUs | Just six days left to apply to join us as a community organiser turning ideas into action and helping #Coventry communities move from building their power to wielding it for a fairer, more equitable city. Closing 9am Monday 22 September! bit.ly/41tiuyE
September 16, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Arriving here many years ago as a refugee, and through the immigration process, Dorothy has relied on community for support. Founding free 'Waka Waka' fitness classes for herself and other women living in Willenhall #Coventry. Here's a quick update on their latest challenge. 1/
September 16, 2025 at 10:30 AM
#JOB NEWS | We want a city that is fairer, more compassionate and equal. Where lived experience matters, care leads to action and injustice is challenged together. We are looking for a full-time community organiser to join our Connecting for Good team helping... 1/4
September 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM