Across Bristol, churches are opening their doors as Warm Welcome Spaces - offering warmth, conversation and connection to those facing rising costs and isolation. Discover how your church can join this city-wide effort, learn from existing initiatives, and link people to local support.

As part of Warm Welcome Week, Ebenezer Church in north Bristol is celebrating the joy and connection found in Warm Welcome Spaces, working with local partners to ensure everyone feels included. The week highlights the power of simple hospitality in building friendship, dignity and belonging across the community.

Bristol organisations offering mentoring and befriending came together to share learning, explore challenges, and build partnerships. The event highlighted how “being rather than doing” is shaping effective 1:1 support - and how collaborative approaches can strengthen mentoring across the city.

Watch the video round up from the Bristol Warm Welcome Network’s Bumper Health Day. See if you can spot yourself!

Discover how the Bristol Warm Welcome Network brought together over 40 community spaces for training in mental health awareness and blood-pressure screening. Hosted by the Good Faith Partnership in collaboration with NHS and Bristol Mind – empowering volunteers to become community health champions

Bristol is full of amazing groups doing great work — but it’s not always easy to know who’s doing what or where to go. From Swansea’s “Hope” app to “myteamaroundme”, this post explores how we could connect up all that help so folks can access it when they need it.

Mentoring isn’t just meeting once. In Bristol, we’ve found that pairing people with one-to-one support and a welcoming community space makes a real difference. Here’s what we’ve learned about volunteer roles, warm handovers, and building connections that last.

Sharing a meal can do so much more than fill a stomach — it brings people together. Bristol’s Warm Welcome Network shows how community meals are helping reduce food waste, ease isolation, and create places where folks can really belong.

Across the city, local groups opened their doors to offer warmth, company, and care. The Bristol Warm Welcome Network brought people together — here’s what we’ve learned from it.

Bristol’s Welcome Hubs project has supported Ukrainian families for the past three years. A recent survey shows two-thirds now feel part of the local community, with progress in language learning, education and health, alongside ongoing challenges around work and housing.

Ten members of the local community have gathered at Sea Mills Methodist Church for a focus group exploring issues that can be caused by eConsult, an online consultation and triage platform used by GP surgeries.

David Barclay, Director of the Warm Welcome Campaign, reflects on the power of community-led solutions to national challenges. Inspired by the idea that we should “start with what’s strong,” he explores how Warm Welcome Spaces are evolving from local lifelines into a national force for resilience, health, and social cohesion.

On Pentecost Sunday 2025, over 700 Christians from across Bristol gathered for an extraordinary evening of worship, prayer, and unity. Leaders from all denominations declared God’s hope and blessing over the city. Discover how this moment is sparking ongoing prayer for Bristol.

Bristol Thriving Communities is a collaborative project between the Good Faith Partnership and Christian Action Bristol. New research analysed 195 churches in the city, finding 427 individual church-led social transformation projects ranging from support for children, mental health and wellbeing provision, to providing community cafes and support to those in food insecurity.

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Bridges for Communities is a Bristol-based charity that fosters connections among people of diverse cultures, races, and faiths to promote understanding and harmonious coexistence.

Church leaders from across Bristol have met to co-design the recommendations for a new report exploring how to best empower church-led social action and community transformation work in Bristol.

The Bristol Impact Fund supports local voluntary and community organisations working to reduce inequality and improve the lives of Bristol’s most disadvantaged residents

60 representatives from 40 churches gathered at City Hall to explore how the church community could better support vulnerable children and families. 

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