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Community support
We are creating a directory of groups able to support and be supported by each other. Find out how to get your organisation listed here on our Community Aid South Glos page.
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Almondsbury
Almondsbury Angels
Offers: Gardening;Grocery shopping;Prescription collection;Dog walking;Phone chats for those who are lonely.
A group of local volunteers helping with deliveries of newspapers and essentials via the community shop. Volunteers welcome.
Contact: Alison Rowe
Social media: Almondsbury Angels Facebook group
Alveston
Alveston community action group
Offers: Support for elderly and vulnerable people in our community including telephone buddies.
The group have street coordinators for every street in Alveston including volunteers to support them.
Contact person: Carly Rudrum-Baker
Tel: 07813 095565
Email: carlyrud@hotmail.com
Aust
Aust Parish Council
Offers: Grocery shopping;Prescription collection.
Aust Parish Council has assisted with setting up support within three villages in the Parish – Littleton-upon-Severn, Elberton and Aust. Each village has a network of volunteers to assist.
Tel: 07944258162
Email:ccollinson81@gmail.com
Elberton Covid-19 Community Support
Offers: Grocery shopping; Prescription collection; Phone chats for those who are lonely.
A group of Elberton residents who have offered to help neighbours in the village who cannot leave their homes during the current crisis.
Tel: 07889144509
Email: clairedhawkins@icloud.com
Bradley Stoke
AssistPlus Community Interest Company
Offers: Prescription collection; Phone chats for those who are lonely in the Bradley Stoke, Little Stoke and Stoke Gifford Area
ASSISTPLUS CIC is a Bradley Stoke based Veteran Community Support organisation which seeks to support military veterans living and working in South Gloucestershire.
Email: assistplus.uk@gmail.com
Tel: 07865448352
Social media: Assistplus.CIC
Pursey Drive Neighbourhood Watch Scheme
Offers: Grocery shopping;Prescription collection;Dog walking;Phone chats for those who are lonely.
A group of residents who have been involved with Neighbourhood Watch for 15 years that have adapted their role to cope with the current crisis.
Tel: Texts/WhatsApp only 07709081967
Email: dnhws@gmail.com
Re Engage Bradley Stoke
Offers: Prescription collection;Dog walking.
Currently offers telephone support for the elderly but can collect prescriptions as required.
Contact: Sarah Crisp
Tel: 07810 574477
Email: sarahcrisp2000@yahoo.co.uk
Stoke Gifford/Bradley Stoke COVID-19 Help and Support group
Offers: Grocery shopping;Prescription collection;Dog walking;Phone chats for those who are lonely.
A group of individuals on facebook who are willing to give help in any form required.
Social media: Stoke Gifford/Bradley Stoke Covid-19 support Facebook group/
Tel: 07938152453
Email: benshadbolt@blueyonder.co.uk
Cadbury Heath, Upton Cheyney and Wick
BS30 COVID-19 Community Support Group
Offers: supporting local residents within the BS30 postcode
A local community Facebook group for residents of the BS30 postcode with over 2,300 members.
Contact person: Helene Cook
Email: helene.eleycook@gmail.com
Social media: BS30 Covid-19 support Facebook group
Juice Community Project
Juice will remain available for urgent help and assistance with picking up shopping, getting urgent supplies, posting mail or even making a friendly phone call. Volunteers welcome. Please contact us, and we will do our best to connect you with the appropriate service.
Tel: 01454302302
Email: hello@juicecic.com
Chipping Sodbury
Horton and Little Sodbury Community Support
Offers: Grocery shopping; Prescription collection; Dog walking; Phone chats for those who are lonely;
Residents of Horton and Little Sodbury supporting one another during coronavirus and beyond. Volunteers welcome.
Social media: Horton & Little Sodbury Community Facebook group
Contact: chairman@halsvh.org.uk
Tel: 07711 672007
Cromhall
Cromhall Community Helpers
Offer: Grocery shopping;Prescription collection;Dog walking;Phone chats for those who are lonely;
A group of local residents willing to help anyone in isolation, the vulnerable and elderly
Tel: 07748342519
Doynton village
Doynton Mutual Aid Group
Offers: Grocery shopping;Prescription collection;Dog walking.
Community run support group for COVID19.
Tel: 07887625881
Email: sarah.magraw@gmail.com
Dyrham & Hinton
Dyrham And Hinton Covid 19 Support Group
Offers: Grocery shopping;Prescription collection;Dog walking;Phone chats for those who are lonely;
Dyrham And Hinton residents group – volunteers welcome.
Tel:7786301200
Email:Kerry@healeycourt.co.uk
Social Media:
Filton, Patchway, Stoke Gifford, Charlton Hayes
BS34 COVID-19 Help, Support And Volunteering group
Offers: Grocery shopping; Prescription collection; Dog walking; Phone chats for those who are lonely.
Support for residents within the BS34 post code area. Volunteers welcome.
Social media: BS34 Covid_19 support facebook group
FACE Filton COVID-19 support group
Offers: outreach network looking to support vulnerable residents.
A local ‘task force’ of organisation; including school, church, town & L.A. councillors, FiltonVoice, OneYou & a SGC Public Health Officer, being led by a local youth & community charity FACE, which is coordinating a team of local resident volunteers. We have a phone helpline and a community ‘foodswap’. Volunteers from Filton welcome.
Tel: 0117 9691938 (10am-12pm, 6.30-8.30pm)
Tel: 07511985130
Email: Covid19@facefilton.org.uk
Public Communications are via FiltonVoice and the Filton News & Views Facebook page. There is a closed Facebook group for volunteers.
Social media: filtonnewsandviews facebook page
Frampton Cotterell and Coalpit Heath
Frampton Cotterell & Coalpit Heath Covid-19 Community Support
Offers: Grocery shopping;Prescription collection;Phone chats for those who are lonely.
Provides community-based support to residents in need throughout the COVID-19 outbreak in a safe, collaborative and timely manner; helping neighbours to be good neighbours. Volunteers welcome.
Tel:07742604988
Email:COVID19FramptonAndCoalpit@gmail.com
Social Media: Covid19 Frampton&Coalpit Heath facebook group
Volunteer group: Frampton&coalpit heath volunteer facebook group
Hanham
Covid-19 – BS15 – Hanham (Bristol) Support
Offers: Grocery shopping;Prescription collection;Dog walking;Phone chats for those who are lonely.
A facebook group designed to give Hanham residents a platform to both access and offer help.
Tel:07811358186
Email: vickyrobinson26@gmail.com
Social media:Hanham BS15 support facebook group
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Acton Aid
Offers: Grocery shopping; Prescription collection;Dog walking;Phone chats for those who are lonely.
Support group for the parish of Iron Acton. Every household in the parish has been provided with our Hotline Number which is permanently manned on a rota basis by volunteer helpers.
Contact: Stephen Green, Chair
Tel:07771330149
Email: stevegreen201@yahoo.com
Web: www.actonaid.org.uk
Littleton-upon-Severn
Littleton Helping Hands
Offers: Grocery shopping;Prescription collection.
A support system for all vulnerable people in Littleton-upon-Severn. Everyone in the village has been contacted. There is a WhatsApp Group and a team of volunteers willing to help.
Email:pjlittleton@hotmail.com
Tel:07887656041
Kingswood, Woodstock & New Cheltenham
Covid-19 BS15 – Kingswood (Bristol) Support
Offer: Grocery shopping;Prescription collection;Dog walking;Phone chats for those who are lonely.
Single access point to local services where local residents can ask for/offer help, and be linked with local services without the need for searching. Volunteers welcome.
All the local support organisations are being placed under it’s umbrella, including Southern Brooks, Kingswood Foodbank, Holy Trinity Church, Bristol Community Cafes CIC, Impact Trust, and Bromford.
Contact: Cllr Andrea Reid
Email: Andrea.Reid@southglos.gov.uk
Tel: 07596 338097
Social media: Covid-19 BS15 – Kingswood Support facebook group
Kingswood Community Transport
Community Transport organisation providing a service for essential travel, to the shops and for medical appointments.
Tel:07872583307
Email:info@kingswoodct.org.uk
Social media:KingswoodCommunityTransport facebook page
Web: kingswoodct.org.uk
The Meeting Place
Offers: Phone chats for people who are feeling isolated or need someone to talk to.
The Meeting Place is holding online drop in sessions using Zoom video-conferencing during these times: Tuesday 9:30 am – 12:30 pm; Wednesday 2 pm – 4 pm; Thursday 9:30 am – 12:30 pm; Saturday 1 pm – 4 pm.
Email: revbeverleycharles@gmail.com
Social media: The Meeting Place Kingswood facebook group
Southern Brooks Community Partnerships
Community organisation that works with communities to provide practical support to help people.
Web: https://southernbrooks.org.uk/
Tel: 01179 510434
Email: office@southernbrooks.org.uk
Mangotsfield
Mangotsfield COVID 19 Community Group
Offers: Grocery shopping;Prescription collection;Dog walking;Phone chats for those who are lonely.
A group of volunteers supporting those in need in the Mangotsfield community and nearby areas.
Tel: 07507168700
Email: cliveeheath@hotmail.co.uk
Social media: Mangotsfield Matters facebook page
Mangotsfield and Staple Hill Councillors
Offers: Sign posting to our other local support services;Grocery shopping;Prescription collection;Dog walking;Phone chats for those who are lonely.
Contact: Mike 07875631817
Email: michael.bell@southglos.gov.uk
Contact: Ian 07562437598
Contact: Katie: 07507168700
Social Media: Staple Hill &Mangotsfield residents facebook page
North Bristol Foodbank
Resound Foodbank Outlet is open Friday 10-12.00hrs
Tel: 01173050969
Email: info@resoundbristol.co.uk
Staple Hill Community Hub
Offer: Free food parcels for people in Staple Hill and Mangotsfield who are struggling to afford basic food supplies. Helpline open Monday, 12-4pm; Tues, Weds, Thurs, 10am – 4pm. Volunteers welcome. Donations of long-life food items welcome to Salvation Army, Broad Street, Staple Hill, 11am-noon, Mon, Tue, Thur, Sat.
Tel: 0743473751
Marshfield
Marshfield Community Centre /Community Library
A group of volunteers offering: Books, jigsaws; Grocery shopping; Prescription collection;Phone chats for those who are lonely.
Tel:07513106206
Email: Dawn.d.brooks@icloud.com
Oldbury-on-Severn
Kington vs Covid-19
Offers: Grocery shopping;Prescription collection;Dog walking;Phone chats for those who are lonely.
Informal group of neighbours in the hamlet of Kington, Oldbury-on-Severn parish.
Tel:01454411907
Olveston and Tockington
Old Down Community Support
Offers: Grocery shopping;Prescription collection;Dog walking;Phone chats for those who are lonely.
Telephone helpline and Facebook group for residents of Old Down village.
Tel: 07967609266
Email: di.buckley@olvestonparishcouncil.gov.uk
Social media: Old Down Neighbours facebook group
Olveston Parish community group
Offers: Grocery shopping;Prescription collection;Dog walking;Phone chats for those who are lonely.
A group of Olveston & Tockington residents helped by Olveston Parish Council and St Mary’s Church Olveston.
Contact person: Martin Gibson, Church Warden at St Mary’s
Tel: 01454 616865
Email: mrtngibs@aol.com
Patchway
Covid-19 Help, Support And Volunteering Patchway
photocopying, printing, leaflet dropping, supporting vulnerable and isolated individuals.
Email:michellescammell@hotmail.com
Social media: Covid-19 Help, Support And Volunteering Patchway facebook page
North Bristol Foodbank
Patchway Foodbank Outlet open: Thursday 10:00 – 12:00 hrs at St Chad’s Church, Rodway Rd, Patchway, BS34 5ED. If you wish to volunteer for Foodbank please contact Revd Howard Jameson. If you need to access Foodbank you will need to obtain an appropriate voucher. These can be obtained from The Hub on Rodway Road in Patchway.
Tel: 770704090
Tel: 01179793978
Southern Brooks Community Partnerships
Community organisation that works with communities to provide practical support to help people.
Web: https://southernbrooks.org.uk/
Tel: 01454 868570
Email: office@southernbrooks.org.uk
Pilning, Northwick and Severn Beach
Pilning, Northwick & Severn Beach Isolation Support Group
Offers:Prescription collection;Phone chats for those who are lonely.
A team of volunteers offering a point of contact for anyone during this period of uncertainty. Volunteers welcome.
Tel: 07581375539
Email: covispandsb@gmail.com
Social media: PilningNorthwick&SevernBeach Covid 19 isolation support facebook group
Pucklechurch and Shortwood
Pucklechurch and shortwood good neighbours scheme
Offers: Grocery shopping; Prescription collection; Dog walking; Phone chats for those who are lonely.
A residents’ association of neighbours with dbs checked volunteers.
Tel: 07961939574
Email: Goodneighbours@pucklechurch.org
Social media: Pucklechurch and shortwood neighbours facebook page
Rangeworthy
Rangeworthy and Bagstone Coronavirus support
Offers: Grocery shopping; Prescription collection; Dog walking; Phone chats for those who are lonely.
Group of volunteers covering the villages of Rangeworthy and Bagstone trying to assist those who need help and support during this difficult time. Volunteers welcome.
Social media: Rangeworthy & Bagstone support Facebook group
Contact: Jane Guest
Tel: 07814199276
Email: Jane64guest@gmail.co.uk
Staple Hill and Mangotsfield
Staple Hill Community Hub
Offer: Free food parcels for people in Staple Hill and Mangotsfield who are struggling to afford basic food supplies. Helpline open Monday, 12-4pm; Tues, Weds, Thurs, 10am – 4pm. Volunteers welcome. Donations of long-life food items welcome to Salvation Army, Broad Street, Staple Hill, 11am-noon, Mon, Tue, Thur, Sat.
Tel: 07434737512
Email: hello@staplehillcommunityhub.org.uk
Web: staplehillcommunityhub.org.uk
Staple Hill and Mangotsfield Councillors
Offers: Sign posting to our other local support services; Food parcels; Grocery shopping; Prescription collection; Dog walking; Phone chats for those who are lonely.
Contact: Ian 07562437598
Email:Ian.boulton@southglos.gov.uk
Contact: Katie: 07507168700
Contact: Mike 07875631817
Social Media: Staple Hill &Mangotsfield residents facebook page
Stoke Gifford
Bakers Ground neighbourhood group
Offers: Cooked meals;Grocery shopping;Prescription collection;Dog walking;Phone chats for those who are lonely.
Facebook group for residents of Bakers Ground, Stoke Gifford, to offer or request help from neighbours.
Bakers Ground neighbourhood Facebook group
Tel: 07790223954
Stoke Gifford/Bradley Stoke COVID-19 Help and Support group
Offers: Grocery shopping;Prescription collection;Dog walking;Phone chats for those who are lonely.
A group of individuals on facebook who are willing to give help in any form required.
Social media: Stoke Gifford/Bradley Stoke Covid-19 support Facebook group/
Tel: 07938152453
Email: benshadbolt@blueyonder.co.uk
Thornbury
Cumbria Close Neighbours group, Thornbury
Offer: Post Office;Grocery shopping;Prescription collection;Phone chats for those who are lonely.
A team of neighbours living on Cumbria Close, to support those self isolating with Covid19
Tel: 07957 696913
Email: mailto:katiejarvis@live.com
Social media: Cumbria Close support facebook group
I can offer (Thornbury)
Offers: Grocery shopping;Prescription collection;Dog walking;Phone chats for those who are lonely.
Facebook group created to link people in Thornbury willing to help out in any way possible at this time of health crisis.
Thornbury.
Tel: 07842188448
Email: rml.williams@blueyonder.co.uk
Social media: I can offer (Thornbury) facebook page
Thornbury Baptist Church
Offers: Foodbank Friday 14:00 – 16:00 hrs;Grocery shopping;Prescription collection;Dog walking;Phone chats for those who are lonely.
Thornbury Baptist Church is committed to showing care and love to the community. Volunteers welcome.
Tel: 07305 863903
Email: office@thornburybaptistchurch.org.uk
Web: www.thornburybaptistchurch.org.uk
Social media: ThornburyBaptistChurch facebook page
Walnut Close Support Group, Thornbury
Offers: Grocery shopping; Prescription collection; Dog walking; Phone chats for those who are lonely.
Support for those self isolating or at risk due to Coronavirus in Walnut Close, Thornbury.
Tel: 07940751253
Westerleigh
Westerleigh Neighbourhood Watch
Offers: Any help needed;Grocery shopping;Prescription collection;Dog walking;Phone chats for those who are lonely. Volunteers welcome.
Tel: 01454311859
Email: WesterleighNW@gmail.com
Winterbourne
Covid-19 Winterbourne and Winterbourne Down Response Group
Offers: Grocery shopping; Prescription collection; Dog walking;Phone chats for those who are lonely.
This is the local Coronavirus response Facebook group for residents of Winterbourne and Winterbourne Down. The purpose of the group is to look after each other, keep in contact and respond to local need wherever possible. Volunteers welcome.
Social media: Winterbourne Covid-19 response facebook groups
Wotton Under Edge
Wotton Area Mutual Aid
Offers: Grocery shopping; Prescription collection; Dog walking; Phone chats for those who are lonely.
Community support group for the Wotton under Edge area including Charfield. Volunteers welcome.
Social media: Wotton Area Mutual Aid Facebook page
Yate and Sodbury
Green Community Travel
Offers: Essential travel, Prescription collection and other essential items;Phone chats for those who are lonely;
Community transport organisation for those that cannot access public transport. Area covered: Yate, Chipping Sodbury, Old Sodbury, Horton, Tormarton, Badminton, Hawkesbury, Wickwar, Charfield, Cromhall, Rangeworthy, Iron Acton, Winterbourne and Winterbourne Down, Frampton Cotterell, Coalpit Heath, Westerleigh and Pucklechurch as well as other villages in the surrounding area and areas in-between. We also travel to Downend, Kingswood, Emersons Green and Thornbury. We will also travel to all of the Bristol hospitals.
Tel:01454 228706
Email: admin@greencommunitytravel.co.uk
Email: mailto:manager@greencommunitytravel.co.uk
Web: www.greencommunitytravel.co.uk/
Social media: Greencommunitytravel facebook page
North Bristol Foodbank
Yate Foodbank Outlet is open Tuesday 14:00 – 16:00; Fri day 10:00 – 12:00 hrs.
Contact: Elaine Waver, Food Bank volunteer lead
Tel: 07512 523343
Email: foodbank@ctr-yate.org
Web: North Bristol Foodbank/yatechippingsodbury
Southern Brooks Community Partnerships
Community organisation that provides practical support to help people.
Web: https://southernbrooks.org.uk/
Abbotswood Hub and Cranleigh Court Hub
Tel: 01454868570
Email: office@southernbrooks.org.uk
Yate Town Council
Yate Town Council has launched a Corona Battle Fund to support local community groups. If your organisation is assisting residents in this time of crisis and needs financial support, please read the guidelines on the webpage and complete and submit an application form.
Contact: Leah Collier, Town Council Community Project Lead
Tel: 01454866506
Email: info@yatetowncouncil.gov.uk
Web: www.yatetowncouncil.gov.uk//covid-19
Yate and Sodbury Covid-19 Help & Support
Offers: Grocery shopping; Prescription collection;Dog walking; Phone chats for those who are lonely.
Community group building a register of point-of-contact volunteers for each road in Sodbury and Yate, particularly if they have been DBS-checked. Volunteers welcome.
Social Media:Yate and Sodbury Covid-19 Help&Support facebook group
South Gloucestershire-wide
Citizens Advice South Gloucestershire
Offers: Holistic phone advice.
Citizens Advice is a charity and part of the South Glos Advice Consortium able to give telephone advice: Mondays 11am-2pm and 4.30pm-6.30pm; Tuesdays 10am-3pm; Wednesdays 10am-12pm; Thursdays 9.30am-12.30pm; Fridays 10am-1pm.
Tel: 01454334961
Email:mailto:chantal.watts@southgloscab.org.uk
Web: http://www.southgloscab.org.uk
COVID-19 Help, Support And Volunteering South Glos and Bristol
Facebook group created to help support communities in South Glos and Bristol.
Contact: mattpalmer2011@hotmail.co.uk
Social media: Covid-19 help&support SouthGlos&Bristol facebook group
Green Community Travel
Offers: Essential travel, Prescription collection and other essential items;Phone chats for those who are lonely;
Community transport organisation for those that cannot access public transport. Area covered: Yate, Chipping Sodbury, Old Sodbury, Horton, Tormarton, Badminton, Hawkesbury, Wickwar, Charfield, Cromhall, Rangeworthy, Iron Acton, Winterbourne and Winterbourne Down, Frampton Cotterell, Coalpit Heath, Westerleigh and Pucklechurch as well as other villages in the surrounding area and areas in-between. We also travel to Downend, Kingswood, Emersons Green and Thornbury. We will also travel to all of the Bristol hospitals.
Tel:01454 228706
Email: admin@greencommunitytravel.co.uk
Email: mailto:manager@greencommunitytravel.co.uk
Web: www.greencommunitytravel.co.uk/
Social media: Greencommunitytravel facebook page
North Bristol Advice Centre
Offers: Welfare benefits and debt advice by telephone and email.
Registered charity providing specialist welfare benefits and debt advice.
Email: team@northbristoladvice.org.uk
Tel: 07731842763
Tel: 07595047278
Web: www.northbristoladvice.org.uk
SSAFA Bristol and South Gloucestershire
Offers: Food vouchers, electric/gas top ups, white/brown goods.
SSAFA is an armed forces charity assisting veterans and their dependants including reservists.
Tel: 01179638082
Email: Bristol.branch@ssafa.org.uk
Web: www.ssafa.org.uk