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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
A colourful front cover of a report about 30 years of Grapevine featuring yellow, pink and purple pathways woven with photos over the decades. The title is 'Deep Social Change: The Grapevine Story. Three decades of Grapevine'.

28 January 2025

30 years of Grapevine! Here’s our story of deep social change
Volts shown on a gauge. Image by Thomas Kelley on Unsplash.

6 November 2024

How do we shift the dial on health inequalities?
A black woman wearing a red tracksuit, bumbag and a big smile makes two peace signs with her hands on top of a hill in the Peak District on a sunny day with other walkers behind her. She is Dorothy from Waka Waka Fitness.

17 October 2024

Putting people in the lead of improving their lives and their communities – Dorothy’s Waka Waka story
A man wearing a green parker coat with his whole face covered by a giant nose mask, spreads his arms wide as crowds behind him look on and smile.

24 September 2024

Organising Change blog series: The glitter and the glue
A colourful handmade placard on cardboard reading 'Power to the People' is held high in front of some trees and a grey sky.

17 September 2024

Organising Change blog series: How we organise change in this place at this time
A white woman with bobbed brown hair and glasses and wearing a black dress speaks on stage at a podium into a microphone. She is Clare Wightman.

18 July 2024

Grapevine CEO awarded Honorary Doctorate from Coventry University
A Save The Date invitation to Organising Change with Grapevine on 26 June 2024 in bold purple and pink letters. Images of people community organising, meeting, litter picking and creating campaign placards and the Grapevine logo are also seen.

17 July 2024

Event news – Grapevine’s UK gathering to talk relationships, power and organising change
Three white women, a young black man and a black woman wear matching Coventry Urban Eden green tree logo t-shirts for an outdoor selfie holding a selection of plants.

14 March 2024

Co-creating places where we all feel we belong

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