And thank you to Coventry and Warwickshire CDA finance assistant Sam Young who joined us in the last year to help Cathy and leaves with her as we start our next chapter as #GrapevineAt30✨

NEW BLOG #GrapevineAt30 | At the crux of a local issue was a community feeling powerless to change things. In our process of creating conversations, relationships and strategy, something deeper took root—an emerging sense of power, confidence, possibility: bit.ly/435nKcl

Now in the final weeks celebrating #GrapevineAt30, we’re revisiting three themes from our story of 30 years of deep social change. Today: Strengthening Democracy—a very relevant topic and never far from our thoughts, given how we started 2025 with a fight: bit.ly/47eV5mt

🆕 #GrapevineAt30 blog! From our early wins helping people in council-run day centres for people with learning disabilities be paid the minimum wage, to our disabled #Coventry Youth Activists (CYA) latest accessible voting campaign—here's how we help people claim power and take action: bit.ly/4kkuzNs

Our final #GrapevineAt30 blog on why equal collaboration between communities and institutions is vital if we are to make a sea change for people everywhere—but particularly the 'doubly disadvantaged' places identified for Pride in Place programme funding: bit.ly/3WDmGsJ

NEW BLOG #GrapevineAt30 | Divides that keep people apart, a lack of genuine two-way connections and relationships that allow cruelty and harassment to flourish—the power of connection and relationships to overcome these divides flows through our work 👉 bit.ly/3KByV6n

Although we've pulled together a good selection of key achievements from 2021 to 2025, there are many more—please contact us if you are a funder, researcher, activist or strategist who would like to explore how we could make change together! 9/9 🍇 #ShiftingPower #GrapevineAt30

So—if you get the #GCSE2025 results you wanted today, well done! If you didn't, or couldn't take your GCSEs for any reason, know that success comes in all different shapes and sizes 💜 #StrengtheningPeople #WeAreGrapevine #GrapevineAt30 7/7

More history to read here: theweavershouse.org/history-of-b... Learn more about our own 30-year part of this centuries-old story here: bit.ly/GV30YearsStory Thanks for reading! #GrapevineAt30 4/4

#GrapevineAt30 To mark our milestone we’re sharing our 30-year story plus a series of blogs. First, we go back to decade one—when person-led planning and connecting forced a powershift in people's lives away from professionals and pathologies. Services, cycling, community—Ben's story bit.ly/42ScCPc