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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 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 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 illu

26 September 2023

Climate change conversation training gears up for 2 October session

A trolley containing rolls of faux grass and handmade placards is pulled across Coventry city centre for a Grapevine parklet.

7 August 2023

This one thing has changed my community organising practice… and other stories

Two women greet each other warmly inside a coffee shop hosting Collaboration Station. The woman on the left with short blonde hair and a peach coloured shirt is Gemma from Connecting For Good Cov. The text on the image reads: "We are open as a team that we don’t have the answers, we don't always get it right and we can’t do it alone."

13 February 2023

Grapevine community organisers sharing their insights with over 100 million people

A large group of more than 50 people inside a historic Coventry hall look up and wave at a camera above them.

24 January 2023

Collaboration Station back with a bang in January!

a week in the life of

27 November 2018

A week in the life of Grapevine

Melissa at work

6 July 2017

Melissa’s story

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