Our fifth round, in spring/summer 2023, was our largest to date by far, with 42 applications and 21 funded groups. The grants totalled £20,600. We’re proud to have given grants to the following:

Active Archives – people of African descent healing from the legacies of the past through deep group therapy work, creative endeavours and other activities

AdBlock Bristol – a campaign to stop the commercialisation of Bristol’s public spaces through outdoor corporate advertising, and celebrate art, nature and community instead of ads.

Avon Indian Community Association – a platform for promoting social cohesiveness within the current and new generations of people of Indian origin and the wider community

Bristol Copwatch – grassroots community focused police monitoring group; running workshops and events for community resilience and who cop watch locally and monitor the police across the UK

Bristol Sex Workers Collective – building solidarity and community between sex workers to ensure all workers, ultimately, have access to safety, equitable workers’ rights and liberation

Colour Up Bristol – a climbing community focused on celebrating diversity in a traditionally white-male dominated space, opening up outdoor spaces for global majority people

Cushion – bringing together Black women who experience bullying and discrimination as a result of their race and gender through peer support and learning group

Dandelion – a fortnightly harm reduction information centre for trans+ people who are self-medicating with HRT

Flourishing in Saint Pauls – community plot in St Paul’s reclaimed from its former life as a dumping space. 

Ghana Community Bristol – unifying people of Ghanaian descent to connect, communicate and promote greater knowledge and understanding of Ghanaian culture

Ground Roots Foundation – a small group of black men volunteers working to make the area of St Pauls a nicer place to live by working on abandoned gardens and plots of land

Holdfast Collective – queer, Non-Binary and Trans carpenter/makers sharing skills, empowering people on the margins and challenging patriarchal work environments

Humanitarian Bristol – young British Pakistani women supplying food, emotional and mental health support, health and wellbeing sessions and signposting across Bristol

Moon Fest – bringing more East & South East Asian representation to the events and creative scenes in Bristol through events and workshops

Newtown Network – a community in central Bristol that has come together to try and address the issues caused by deprivation and neglect through community projects

Nextgen Circle – youth sports camps, community events, charity fundraising events, football leagues and football club for the BAME community and deprived areas of Bristol 

Rebel Girls Club – running wellbeing and mental health courses, drop-ins, workshops, events, and social gatherings facilitated by and for anyone who identifies as a woman or non-binary

Reparations Bristol – providing free educational youth projects for young people aged 11-16yrs of African and Caribbean descent who are at risk of exclusion from school and society

Sadaga Group – a group of Arabic speaking women working to reduce social isolation and to support women from Black and minoritised communities

Solidarity In Sound Choir – choir creating an inclusive and harmonious space for Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour, creating a community that celebrates confidence and diversity 

WESTACT – campaign for the public control of buses