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30 years of deep social change
Healthy Communities Together reports and one page summaries
30 years of deep social change
Founded in 1994, Grapevine strengthens lives, sparks community and shifts power across Coventry and Warwickshire.
Our work illustrates how people and communities can meet one another’s needs, claim power and take action on what matters to them – and transform services and systems along the way.
We celebrated our 30th anniversary by sharing ‘The Grapevine Story – three decades of deep social change 1994-2024’. Read it here.
Please click on this link to read an accessible text-only version of our story.
Healthy Communities Together (HCT)
Our final reports and accompanying single page summaries share our learning from four years of supporting genuine partnership working between local people, the voluntary and community sector, NHS and local authority to improve population health and wellbeing in Willenhall, Coventry.
Please click each title from the list below to open the reports.
- REPORT: Neighbourhood health from the ground up – a community-led approach to reducing health inequalities (30 pages)
- REPORT: Partnerships for health – lessons for cross sector collaboration from Healthy Communities Together (20 pages)
- SUMMARY: A community-led neighbourhood health model (one page)
- SUMMARY: Six conditions for community-led neighbourhood health (one page)
Read our blog, ‘The how of public service reform and the power in place’ for our reflections on the HCT programme, its evaluation and what this on-the-ground learning brings to plans for a national ‘Neighbourhood Health Service’ in our 30th year of strengthening people, sparking community and shifting power.
Healthy Communities Together was funded from 2021-2025 by The National Lottery Community Fund with learning partner The King’s Fund.
Connecting for Good Impact Report
Connecting for Good (CfG) is a social movement working to address isolation and marginalisation across Coventry, empowering people in the city to make change through community organising.
In 2024, we worked with Anthill Collective to evaluate its impact over three years using a peer-led, mixed methods approach. You will find some key impact headlines below.
- Follow this link to read the full Impact Report (80 pages)
- Click this link to read the Executive Summary.
Connecting for Good impact headlines
Increased power to make change:
- CfG members are three times more likely than the national average to think they have the power to influence local decisions
- CfG members are much more likely to have taken part in civic activism, civic participation or civic consultation activities in the past 12 months than the national average.
Increased leadership capacity:
- Over two thirds of CfG members reported increases in their ability to lead
- 85 per cent of CfG members say they are more confident leading.
Greater sense of belonging:
- 88 per cent of CfG members said they felt like they belonged to their local community – significantly higher than the national average (65 per cent)
- Sense of belonging is also higher than the national average for groups more likely to experience isolation or marginalisation, such as disabled people (71 per cent versus 62 per cent) and people from ethnically minoritised communities (88 per cent versus 60 per cent).
Stronger community connections:
- Members of CFG have very strong social support networks to turn to for help (98 per cent) despite many having traits that make them more at risk of being isolated and marginalised.
Greater collaboration across the system:
- Many tangible examples of greater collaboration across Coventry, whether that’s with the council, community organisations or local businesses.
Early help
The Ignite programme saw Grapevine and Central England Law Centre embark on a five-year journey in partnership with Coventry City Council Children’s Services and Citizen Housing (formerly Whitefriars), exploring how to redesign support from public sector services to help people earlier and build resilience in those least able to cope.
Click this link to read our final report: ‘A Story of Activating Early Action.’
The business sector
The ‘Rekindling lost connections’ report from our local business and retailer summit in April 2021 details discussions on forging a different future founded on connection and belonging in Coventry and Warwickshire’s city and town centres and local high streets.
The annual Cov Cares Awards, launched in 2023, were borne out of these discussions.
Public sector changemakers
‘Un-lock down – public sector and community’ reports what happened when we gathered Coventry and Warwickshire’s public sector in November 2020 to talk about cementing new ways of working accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic into everyday practice. Those core public sector changemakers later became a Thinkers and Doers Network.
Our pandemic journey
In summer 2020, towards the end of the first lockdown, we called 155 Coventry people together online to reflect and talk about what they wanted to happen next. We considered three things: Poverty and Inequality, Neighbourliness and Connections, and Our Power to Change.
The full report about those conversations is here: ‘From community spirit to community power’.
Almost 100 people reconvened for the ‘Where is the love?’ summit during the second, and arguably harder still, winter lockdown. We were all tired but our willingness to act to keep people together – no matter what – was unwavering. We wanted to give it a strategic push.
If you don’t see what you’re looking for on our reports page, please drop us a line.
Read our strategy here.