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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
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 blog cover shows a photo of a collection of people's concerns about air quality in their neighbourhood displayed on a wall.

9 October 2024

New Connecting for Good report reveals impact and learning from shifting power to communities
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
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
An graphic with black background and a fun purple font inside a yellow box that says 'Young People' next to a colourful games controller. The text below says 'Shared guides on digital connection with neurodivergent young people'. The Grapevine logo is top right.

26 October 2023

New Teenvine ‘how to’ guides help charities navigate online connection with neurodivergent young people
A group walks down a high street away from the camera holding a rainbow coloured placard that says, 'Creative Kindness tackling isolation'.

10 October 2023

Some Creative Kindness from Coventry on World Mental Health Day
An illustration of three people tended to the Earth as they would a garden, using a wheelbarrow, ladder, watering can and plants. The words say Ball Hill Citizens Assembly 30 September.

21 September 2023

Join the Ball Hill Citizens Assembly on Air Quality

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