BDP - Bristol Drugs Project

31/12/2025

BDP Creative Communities in 2025

What an amazing year it has been for Creative Communities! From launching our brand new branding and website, to partnering with Trinity Centre and playing on stage with Honeyfeet , there have been so many highlights.

We would like to say a massive thank you...

To the over 100 people who have attended one of our groups this year

To all our incredible facilitators who share their creativity, skills and dedication with us

To all our volunteers who we literally couldn't run things without - your time and passion is so appreciated

To our funders and partners - Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra , Trinity, Changing Tunes , Bristol Beacon, The Arc , Bristol Old Vic , Horizons Bristol and Bristol City Council

To those who've raised money for us at their concerts - Bristol Phoenix Choir, Redland Wind Band and Jimmy Galvin .

To those who've donated delicious food for our gigs - Bakehouse and Farrow Bakery.

We can't wait to see what 2026 will bring!

We have so many groups starting in January, and we're always welcoming new members to our existing groups—so get in touch to sign up today! 🎶

🌐 www.bdpcreativecommunities.co.uk
📧 creativecommunities@bdp.org.uk
📞 07593 259 257

23/12/2025

BDP Creative Communities: January 2026 Group Schedule

We have so many groups starting in January, and we're always welcoming new members to our existing groups—so get in touch to sign up today! 🎶

Monday 5th Jan: Bristol Recovery Orchestra
Tuesday 6th Jan: Trinity Move On Music
Tuesday 6th Jan: Rising Voices
Wednesday 7th Jan: Changing Tunes Beginners Music
Wednesday 7th Jan: Therapeutic Writing With Sukina Noor
Wednesday 7th Jan: Change The Record
Thursday 8th Jan: Hip Hop Garden
Wednesday 14th Jan: Oi Polloi

Interested in joining one of our groups? Get in touch via the details below!

🌐 www.bdpcreativecommunities.co.uk
📧 creativecommunities@bdp.org.uk
📞 07593 259 257

23/12/2025

22/12/2025

A huge thank you to Redland Wind Band who voted to donate the proceeds of their Christmas Raffle to Bristol Recovery Orchestra 🎶

Sophie, Zoe and Hamilton were invited to speak at last Saturday's concert and got to enjoy a brilliant concert of festive favourites and sing a longs as a bonus.

Always a privilege to speak to the wider community about what we do - thank you to Redland Wind Band for the opportunity!

Interested in joining one of our groups?

We're always welcoming new members — get in touch via the details below! Keep your eyes peeled for exciting new groups launching in the new year! 👀

🌐 www.bdpcreativecommunities.co.uk
📧 creativecommunities@bdp.org.uk
📞 07593259257

22/12/2025

We will be shut from the 25th-27th then again on the 1st over the holiday period.

Otherwise we will be open as usual. Get in touch if you would like some support.

📞 0300 555 1469
📩 bristolinfo@horizonsbristol.co.uk
🌐 www.horizonsbristol.co.uk

19/12/2025

Ever taken ketamine?

👉 We want to improve the messaging we use to engage people who use ketamine.

Can you help us?

👉 We’ve partnered with to evaluate the ways we speak about ketamine and the support on offer.

👉 We're looking for people who use ketamine to take part in this project by completing a short anonymous survey to get your feedback, opinions and experiences around ketamine messaging.

🔗 Scan the QR code or head to the link below to take the survey:

https://uwe.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_exQpEQtqKFYnuYK

18/12/2025

18/12/2025

🎤🌱 Hip Hop Garden is BACK! 🌱🎤

Starting 08.01.2025 | Thursdays 12-2pm

Led by Moyah , this 8-week program blends Hip Hop and permaculture values to explore environmentalism, songwriting, and performance. We'll cover wellbeing, lyric writing, food growing and cooking, enterprise and employability, and Hip Hop culture.

What we'll explore:

✨ Wellbeing & lyric writing
🌿 Food growing & cooking
💼 Enterprise & employability
🎵 Hip Hop culture & performance

Group info:
📅 8th January - 26th February
🕜Thursdays 12-2pm
📍 , Ducie Road Site, BS5 0AX

Open to anyone with lived experience with drugs and/or alcohol.

🔗 More info: https://www.mayproject.org/

Want to join? Get in touch with Creative Communities: 📧 creativecommunities@bdp.org.uk 📧 olivia.batten@bdp.org.uk

17/12/2025

Today marks the *xWorkers which is a day of remembrance. We take this time to reflect on s*x workers (sworkers) who have lost their lives to violence.

❤️☂️ Many sworkers lives are placed on a precarious intersection where criminalisation, misogyny and socioeconomic disparity all meet.

❤️☂️ Today, we'll explore this intersection in solidarity with sworkers and discuss how co-production of strategies and services are essential moving forward.

🔗 For more information and support, head to:

One25

S*x Workers Advocacy and Resistance Movement (SWARM)

English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP)

SWOP - S*x Workers’ Outreach Project

European S*x Worker’s Rights Alliance

SWERV - National Ugly Mugs

15/12/2025

Today's singing workshop at Emerge🎶

Rising Voices led a workshop and a festive sing at Emerge's weekly meeting this Monday, hosted by the amazing team at The Salvation Army on Hassell Drive.

With just 7 of us, we sang three part harmony songs to bring hope and light during what can be a tricky time for some of us. And most memorably, got the room up on their feet shaking percussion along to Jingle Bells.

Thank you to Rosie and Kim from the Salvation Army for hosting us and sharing a delicious breakfast with us, to the residents of Emerge for singing with us, and to the 7 brave Rising Voices members who sang a full set with a third of our usual numbers!