#GrapevineAt30

Grapevine Coventry and Warwickshire

@grapevinecovwarks.bsky.social

4 months ago

A Grapevine 'Connecting For Good' campaign planning session with local people. An illustrated map of Coventry city centre laid out on a table with people around it adding post-it notes to the map. An orange one reads, "hot spots".

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

Grapevine Coventry and Warwickshire

@grapevinecovwarks.bsky.social

5 months ago

A sketch by Coventry artist Paul Chokran of protestors with placards and megaphones. The placards say: protect the vulnerable, care not cuts, say no to cuts and take action now.

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

Grapevine Coventry and Warwickshire

@grapevinecovwarks.bsky.social

5 months ago

A group of local people take part in an outdoor community consultation in a park in Coventry on a grey day. Notice boards with plans and drawings attached are seen displayed around a play area.

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

Grapevine Coventry and Warwickshire

@grapevinecovwarks.bsky.social

5 months ago

View over a wooden slatted bridge with metal rails either side. At the end is a red lifebuoy and a path leading away into the trees.

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

Grapevine Coventry and Warwickshire

@grapevinecovwarks.bsky.social

6 months ago

Although we've pulled together a good selection of key achievements from 2021 to 2025, there are many more—please contact us if you are a funder, researcher, activist or strategist who would like to explore how we could make change together! 9/9 🍇 #ShiftingPower #GrapevineAt30

Grapevine Coventry and Warwickshire

@grapevinecovwarks.bsky.social

6 months ago

A collection of four drawings in black frames on a white exhibition wall.

So—if you get the #GCSE2025 results you wanted today, well done! If you didn't, or couldn't take your GCSEs for any reason, know that success comes in all different shapes and sizes 💜 #StrengtheningPeople #WeAreGrapevine #GrapevineAt30 7/7

Grapevine Coventry and Warwickshire

@grapevinecovwarks.bsky.social

7 months ago

More history to read here: theweavershouse.org/history-of-b... Learn more about our own 30-year part of this centuries-old story here: bit.ly/GV30YearsStory Thanks for reading! #GrapevineAt30 4/4

Grapevine Coventry and Warwickshire

@grapevinecovwarks.bsky.social

9 months ago

A double page spread from Grapevine's 30 years story shows text across the bottom half and newspaper cuttings across the top about some of Grapevine's work and campaigns.

🆕 #GrapevineAt30 blog! From our early wins helping people in council-run day centres for people with learning disabilities be paid the minimum wage, to our disabled #Coventry Youth Activists (CYA) latest accessible voting campaign—here's how we help people claim power and take action: bit.ly/4kkuzNs

Grapevine Coventry and Warwickshire

@grapevinecovwarks.bsky.social

10 months ago

A swimmer wearing goggles and a swimming hat emerges from the water of a turquoise blue outdoor swimming pool in the sunshine.

#GrapevineAt30 To mark our milestone we’re sharing our 30-year story plus a series of blogs. First, we go back to decade one—when person-led planning and connecting forced a powershift in people's lives away from professionals and pathologies. Services, cycling, community—Ben's story bit.ly/42ScCPc