Welcome to Southampton Collective
The Southampton Collective is a Community Interest Company (CIC) committed to a healthier, more sustainable city powered by its communities.
You can find out more about our organisation overall at our About Us page.
Project Support
Our experienced community development workers can support the growth of projects that benefit Southampton communities and fit with ambitions for a healthier, more regenerative city. We can connect you with like-minded community organisations, work on your strategic approach, support policy development, help you develop your coproduction skills, and much more.
Find out more about our communities and coproduction skills here.
Incubation
The Southampton Collective CIC can hold funds on behalf of individuals or organisations, for example grant funding. This service covers:
– Receiving the funds and being a party to any necessary contracts for the receipt & disbursement of such funds
– Monthly payments of invoices
– Quarterly budgeting
– End of year summary and accounting
– Insurance for your projects covering workshops etc but excluding any dangerous activities
– 2 hours with the team to discuss any networking or additional support that might be useful
– Prompt response to any queries
For this service, we charge a percentage of funds held to cover our costs.
If it’s one of our projects you are interested in, please head over to our Projects in the Menu. You might be interested in our work around community development work including coproduction, our work with Southampton Climate Action Network or our heatwaves work via Beat the Heat.
If your interests align with ours and you are local to Southampton, you are very welcome to join as a Member.
During the last decade, our Directors have all been involved in other projects and organisations. Now we have reached our 10th year of operation, we are focusing more on the delivery side of Southampton Collective. We have strong links with other organisations which can help make sure that our work grows, engages more widely and achieves greater impact. We will always champion the voice of grassroots community action.
You can sign up for occasional Southampton Collective email updates. We don’t send many general emails, as most of our work is focused on the Projects that we involved with. So if climate is your thing, then please sign up for Southampton Climate Action Network emails. If heatwaves are your particular area of interest, please register for Beat the Heat emails.
If you would like to join in with Southampton Collective as a member, volunteer or worker, please get in contact.