Category: Chessel Centre

  • BS3 Community Appoints Emma Brech as Chief Executive Officer

    BS3 Community Appoints Emma Brech as Chief Executive Officer

    BS3 Community Development is delighted to announce the appointment of Emma Brech as its new Chief Executive Officer. Emma, pictured centre, joined the organisation in April 2026, following the retirement of long-serving CEO Simon Hankins in March after 13 years of dedicated leadership. Emma brings over 25 years’ experience in the voluntary sector, with a…

  • Cool, Clean, and Green: The Chessel Centre’s Solar Upgrades!

    Cool, Clean, and Green: The Chessel Centre’s Solar Upgrades!

    Big changes have been happening at our Chessel Centre this year, and they’re all about keeping things cooler, greener, and more energy efficient. This has been made possible thanks to a West of England Combined Authority (WECA) Green Business Grant. These grants are designed to help small and medium businesses and organisations purchase and install…

  • BS3 Community Annual General Meeting

    BS3 Community Annual General Meeting

    We are holding our 2025 AGM on Thursday the 27th of November 2025 at 6.00pm at The Southville Centre, Beauley Road, Bristol BS3 1QG Along with many of our fellow BS3 charities, we continue to develop new offerings and services and strive to reach as many residents as we can. We certainly have some exciting…

  • National Lottery Community Fund

    National Lottery Community Fund

    We are celebrating being awarded generous funding from the National Lottery Community Fund to support our work with the Monday Club for Older People. The Monday Club, based at the Southville Centre will use the money to enrich the experience of it’s club members. The group which runs once a week and is attended by up to 30 local…

  • Remembering Linda One Year On

    Remembering Linda One Year On

    Linda loved butterflies, following on from our wonderful display last year created around the Southville Centre by the local community, families, children and staff, BS3 Community Development will be working with a local artist to design a mosaic butterfly for us to place within the courtyard entrance, we also wish to develop our gardens by…

  • Period Friendly Places

    Period Friendly Places

    You may have noticed we have a new donation box in our centres. Period Friendly Places mission is to eradicate period poverty and for Bristol to be a city of period dignity, where nobody is held back in life or stigmatised against simply for having a period. They are doing this by setting up a…