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Advert to join Coventry and Warwickshire's first Loo Alliance. Pink, yellow and purple writing asking for local businesses, businesses, workers, planners, developers, campaigners, volunteers, event specialists, parents, carers and all local people to join. Accompanied by a group photo of supporters at our World Toilet Day event in Coventry city centre in November 2025.

21 July 2026

Community organising in action: What if finding a toilet determined whether you could leave your home?
Kaz and Tim, a white woman and a white man, wear casual outdoor clothes to pose for a photo in a city centre community garden with the brick wall of a cottage, allotment beds and a tower block in the background.

16 June 2026

Nation of Neighbours report: Coventry’s local leaders plant seeds of hope and change
Orange and blue text banner advertising World Toilet Day and the Need the Loo event on 19 November in Coventry. Logos for different organisations involved are also shown.

13 November 2025

Coventry celebrates community-led change on World Toilet Day
An illustrated map of Coventry city centre laid out on a table with people around it adding post-its to the map. An orange one reads, "hot spots".

3 November 2025

Grapevine at 30: We need equal collaboration if we are to make a sea change with our communities
An illustration by artist and community organiser Melissa Smith shows all different kinds of people across the top holding aloft placards and megaphones against a sunrise with the words 'systemic change' in orange and brown. Below, "the collective power of a thriving ecosystem united across Coventry" is depicted as interlocking pentagons of a bee hive. Pentagons include purpose, connected, inclusive and self organised.

18 September 2025

Building trust, hope and agency in a time of conflict and fearmongering
Two women stand side by side looking towards a clear sky outside the green tiled walls of Grapevine. The brunette woman wearing glasses is Clare Wightman and the blonde woman wearing a patterned green dress is Mel Smith.

4 August 2025

Organising around hope: Grapevine’s community organising features in UCL Policy Lab summer magazine
An illustration by artist and community organiser Melissa Smith shows all different kinds of people across the top holding aloft placards and megaphones against a sunrise with the words 'systemic change' in orange and brown. Below, "the collective power of a thriving ecosystem united across Coventry" is depicted as interlocking pentagons of a bee hive. Pentagons include purpose, connected, inclusive and self organised.

15 April 2025

New staff blog: Community organising to nurture an ecosystem in Coventry
A group gathers inside the library for a publicity photo holding various sensory items available to loan and smiling for the camera.

5 March 2025

Alex brings personal experience to turn idea for sensory library into a reality
A section of flipchart paper covered in brightly coloured writing with ideas on the aims of the Need The Loo campaign in Coventry. Taken at a Collaboration Station monthly ideas night.

19 November 2024

Coventry’s Need The Loo campaign calls for change on World Toilet Day

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