Welcome to Action Hampshire
We provide VCSE organisations with the skills, knowledge, support and funding to build their capacity, enabling them to take community-led action.
Action Hampshire
Become a member
Get more support, stronger connections, and a bigger voice. Behind every strong community is a network of organisations sharing ideas, supporting each other, and speaking up for what matters. That’s what Action Hampshire membership is all about.
Action Hampshire
The Hampshire Changemakers Awards 2027
The Hampshire Changemakers Awards returns for another year to celebrate the incredible individuals, organisations, and businesses making a positive impact to Hampshire communities.
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VCSE resources
Explore all available VCSE resources, including our community event calendar, VCSE and Action Hampshire news stories, our Blog covering various topics of interest to the VCSE sector, our bi-weekly newsletter sign-up.
Who is Action Hampshire?
A bridge to communities
Whether it’s a large charity, a small lunch club, or a social enterprise, we provide VCSE organisations with the skills, knowledge, support and funding to build their capacity, enabling them to take community led action with their communities.
Action Hampshire’s specialist knowledge in the voluntary, community, and social enterprise (VCSE) sector spans over 70 years. We support the sector to deliver great services to local people and communities; speak up for the changes they would like to see and help shape the future of where they live and work.
*Data from the Action Hampshire Impact Report 2025/26
What We Do
Our Work
We work with a variety of partners to deliver innovative projects. Our role is often as project manager, grantmaker, workshop and action learning facilitator, training provider, research partner. In this section, you can find more details about all our projects.
VCSE Resources
In this section you will find our community event calendar, VCSE and Action Hampshire news stories, our Blog covering various topics of interest to the VCSE sector, our bi-weekly newsletter sign-up.
Partnership opportunities
Thriving communities rely on strong partnerships. We offer a range of services to help strengthen connection with communities, to co-design services and to involve or consult with a range of communities, often those that are under-served.
Become a member
Get more support, stronger connections, and a bigger voice. Behind every strong community is a network of organisations sharing ideas, supporting each other, and speaking up for what matters. That’s what Action Hampshire membership is all about.
“I have found Action Hampshire to be truly innovative and forward thinking in their approach to their work and their passion for the voluntary and community sector is easily measured through their work to help improve the lives of all sections of the community.”
Grant Cornwell
Hampshire & Isle of Wight Community Foundation
“Action Hampshire has been superb in its support of my concerns. Thank you so much, AH.”
Helen Callen
Age Concern
“Many thanks for all the work you have done over the last 70 years in supporting the VCSE sector across Hampshire, really looking forward to continuing to work with you to design fantastic great services for patients in our communities.”
Tim Cooling
Hampshire and IOW CCG
Action Hampshire’s latest news
Communities Against Cancer at House of Commons!
We were enormously proud to support Dr Hugo de La Peña, one of our Health Champions at the ‘Breast Cancer: Prevention to Action’ forum at the House of Commons on […]
Help shape an Independent Equality Forum
Invitation to voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise organisations. Positive work is happening across our communities every day. We want to celebrate that work and explore how a stronger collective […]
The Action Hampshire Impact Report 2025/26 is here
2025/2026 was the second year Action Hampshire implemented our new impact measurement approach. Data shows that we have engaged 450 VCFSE organisations, who in turn have supported over 6000 people […]
Upcoming training and information sessions for members
Membership with Action Hampshire is still free, so we hope you join us if you haven’t already! Becoming a member gives you access to all our events (usually free of […]
Support for Hampshire social enterprises
We’re launching a new programme of support for social enterprises across Hampshire that are either based in a rural area or have an impact in our rural communities. If this […]
Where do we stand on Local Government Re-organisation (LGR)?
A couple of weeks ago, the government made a surprise announcement that all planned Local Government Re-organisation (LGR) proposals were at least paused. In Hampshire (alongside those in Essex, Suffolk […]
Supporting your message with social media
Find out more about this and other sessions to support our Community Buildings. Our autumn programme of community buildings support begins soon! We hope you’ll join us at our ‘roundtable’ […]
Reaching the voices which need to be heard
Does your organisation manage a community venue or space?Could your community space help make health and care research more inclusive? The Research Friendly Spaces project, part of Raising Voices in […]
