The mission of the PRSC is to help Stokes Croft to recognise its special qualities, by improving the streetscape through direct action, and creating a sense of identity.

The organisation is "leading efforts to protect this unique area of Bristol from the creeping gentrification that's slowly making most of urban Britain look like a paved shopping centre forecourt.

[7] The PRSC attributes its formal instigation to the creation of the Outdoor Gallery in 2007, an anti-consumerism art piece on a privately-owned wall on Jamaica Street in Bristol.

In 2010, Chalkley painted a sign on the front of an apartment block, reading “Welcome to Stokes Croft, Cultural Quarter, Conservation area, Outdoor Gallery”, for which he was ordered to pay damages.

[9] During the 2020 COVID-19 lockdowns, the group continued its support of local homeless people by providing survival resources, as well as "one of the city’s only 24 hour public hand washing points".