Grapevine’s Board of Trustees play a vital role in our organisation—bringing their lived experiences, professional expertise, passion and ideas to help shape, sustain and grow our work. Jed Francique – Board Co-Chair Jed works for the NHS East London Foundation Trust as the Borough Director for City and Hackney Adult Services, covering mental health services […]
Meet Joanne. Joanne is a trainee health care assistant at the Hospital of St Cross in Rugby, Warwickshire. She works on a ward helping older people and people recovering after a stroke. When she’s not learning on the job and supporting patients with their personal care, she spends the remainder of her 30-hour week studying […]
“I was really excited when they offered me the job. I was a little bit nervous at first but I decided to give it a go. The staff helped me get used to the new job by giving me some trial shifts in the summer holidays when the school was quiet.” Like so many young […]
“I feel happy and proud to run my own business,” says Michael, unemployed for four years and on the receiving end of numerous rejections from employers who would not go the extra mile to make reasonable adjustments for his learning disability. When Michael from Coventry met Suzie Crowter, a journey guide on the Accelerate programme […]
For the first time since Connecting for Good began in Coventry in 2018, we are welcoming a team leader to work alongside our community organisers and further progress the movement’s aims of ending isolation and marginalisation in the city, reforming the system that allows it. Introducing Laura Fisher to Grapevine! Listen to or read her […]
Today we announce an exciting new event in partnership with Accelerate to bring learning disabled and autistic job seekers together with businesses in Coventry and Warwickshire. More people than ever are searching for work, especially those who are already at a disadvantage due to assumptions and stereotypes. Autistic people and people with learning disabilities frequently […]
“As COP26 is over, I wanted to take a moment to celebrate one project and invite you to join the start of another,” writes Grapevine community organiser Jess for today’s blog post. “Climate change will make a difference to everybody on the planet in the coming years. But very few of us feel that we […]
Today is the day we reconvene a core group of ‘thinkers and doers’ from our first ever public sector summit last month – to talk action! The UN-LOCK down summit on 10 November gathered almost 70 key professionals around a virtual table to spark what we believe is an urgent conversation about how the public […]
We are an engine for social change. We want everyone in Coventry and Warwickshire to join us in making people and communities stronger, fairer and more connected. What follows is our strategy for 2023-25. A three-year plan to help people and communities use their untapped power to create better futures. Our strategy for 2026 onwards […]