Useful Links
We are incredibly grateful for the support of an amazing network of organisations, partners, and individuals who have helped make the Spacemakers projects possible since June 2022.
Below are just some of the organisations that have contributed time, resources, funding, skills, and encouragement — helping Spacemakers grow from the moment of the original “dad joke” into the community-led space it is today.
If you have played a significant role in our journey and don’t see your organisation listed, please email admin@spacemakersbristol.co.uk with your logo and a brief description of how you contributed, and we’ll be happy to consider adding you.
Schools & Youth Organsiations
Merchants Academy Primary School
Since 2022, we have worked with Merchants Academy for various projects, including daffodil planting, and most notably the the new Herb Garden which was installed in connection with the Growing Hope foundations.
Hartcliffe Club for Young People
A youth organisation supporting local projects with Spacemakers, offering activities and mentorship in Hartcliffe & Withywood.
The youth club has been instrumental in providing young people for various of Spacemakers projects – including the Graffiti Project funded by Safer Streets – which won an award at the YourPark awards in February 2024.
Hareclive e-Act Academy
In 2022 we have worked with Hareclive e-Act Academy with our first ever project, daffodil planting. This was a huge success, and the young people managed to plant all throughout the site making it look amazing come Spring 2023.
Useful organisations
Bristol City Council
(Parks and Community Development Team)
Provides park maintenance, funding support, and community programming across Bristol green spaces.
Bristol City Council have been instrumental in the successes of Spacemakers since 2022. Steve Clampin from BCC Parks, Hayley Swift from the Community Development team and their entire team have been absolutely amazing. Supporting bids, attending projects, arranging for installs when funding has been won. What a great experience its been, with huge thanks to everyone from these two teams.
Your Park
Your Park enables everybody to benefit from green spaces which are vital to health, wellbeing and quality of life.
From assisting with bids, faciliting funding, and for assisting running events. Big thanks to Judy (who has since left) and her amazing replacement Rachel.
Without their assistance, and crucial knowledge we would definitely not have achieved what we have to date.
Quartet Community Foundation
Quartet support disadvantaged communities in the West of England. With Spacemakers being in one of the most deprived areas of Bristol, some of our most significant work has been funded by Quartet with the support of both YourPark and Bristol City Council Park department.
Open Collective
Making it easier to raise, manage, and disburse money – we have been able to utilise Open Collective for various funding streams that required an account for full transparacy.
The process is very simple to use, and the account managers are available on request for any issues that might arise.
Ignite Plan
This community lead plan is one that surveyed in 2024, and presented their finding in late 2025.
With a commitment to take forward the local peoples views to organisations and decision makers – it will form a key part of funding from 2025 onwards especially with the £20m trailblazer funding coming to Hartcliffe over a 10 year period.
HWCP
(Hartcliffe and Withywood Community Partnership)
For a small group like Spacemakers, without a constituted group, it’s very hard to gain funding. HWCP has worked with us over the years to enable Spacemakers to gain funding.
There are a lot of useful areas to look at if you want to know more than we have throughout this website. A few articles were written near the end of the project, from various viewpoints that can be quite useful.
We are put together a list of different website, and different links to PDF Documents that give just a glimpse of what it was like for the young children who were part of this project – from the start at Trafford Hall, to the end at the grand opening (and beyond).
See below list of websites with useful websites;
Public Art Online – https://publicartonline.org.uk/casestudies/education/spacemakers/index.html
Art and the public realm – http://aprb.co.uk/projects/all-projects/2004/www.cabe.org.uk/case-studies/spacemakers
The National Archives (Cabe Archives) – https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20110118165137/http://www.cabe.org.uk/case-studies/spacemakers/info
See below list of useful PDF documents – if you’d like a copy please email admin@spacemakersbristol.co.uk
