WARM WELCOME WEEK 19th - 25th Jan 2006

Ebenezer Church in north Bristol is a welcoming community hub, hosting activities ranging from food bank sessions and a community café to children’s groups and shared meals. As part of Warm Welcome Week, the church is celebrating the joy and connection found in Warm Welcome Spaces, working with local partners to ensure everyone feels included. The week highlights the power of simple hospitality in building friendship, dignity and belonging across the community.

Bristol organisations offering mentoring and befriending came together to share learning, explore challenges, and build partnerships. The event highlighted how “being rather than doing” is shaping effective 1:1 support - and how collaborative approaches can strengthen mentoring across the city.

Discover how the Bristol Warm Welcome Network brought together over 40 community spaces for training in mental health awareness and blood-pressure screening. Hosted by the Good Faith Partnership in collaboration with NHS and Bristol Mind – empowering volunteers to become community health champions

Bristol is full of amazing groups doing great work — but it’s not always easy to know who’s doing what or where to go. From Swansea’s “Hope” app to “myteamaroundme”, this post explores how we could connect up all that help so folks can access it when they need it.

Mentoring isn’t just meeting once. In Bristol, we’ve found that pairing people with one-to-one support and a welcoming community space makes a real difference. Here’s what we’ve learned about volunteer roles, warm handovers, and building connections that last.

Sharing a meal can do so much more than fill a stomach — it brings people together. Bristol’s Warm Welcome Network shows how community meals are helping reduce food waste, ease isolation, and create places where folks can really belong.