Bristol Redistro gives small unrestricted grants of up to £1,000 to groups and individuals working to create a more just, equal and sustainable world.
We are a wealth redistribution group, raising funds from middle and upper class people, and others who have money to give, to support the work of working class people. We only accept applications from working class people and working class-led groups. Our definition of working class fits lots of people from migrant or diaspora communities (see full criteria below).
Bristol Redistro recognises there are issues with the police. We also see the power of communities to solve their own problems rather than calling for the state to do this for us (see full statement in funding information).
We are keen to support groups that cannot access funds from other funders, such as new and emerging groups that are not formally registered organisations, and those seen as too political or radical for mainstream funders.
We value groups that are accessible and inclusive, e.g. those that support people to get involved (by meeting their access needs) and support them to be part of the group’s decision-making.
We will not fund any group whose work directly involves the slaughter of animals.
To apply, you must meet all the following 5 criteria:
To apply you can be an individual or group and must meet all the following criteria:
1. Working to create a more just, equal and sustainable world. We are keen to support work that is meeting needs directly as well as work aiming to address root causes and create systemic change.
2. Set up and led by a community most affected by inequality (e.g. women, non-binary, LGBTQ+, working class, disabled, migrant, Black and racially minoritised people). The group/ project must be led by people with first-hand experience of the issue they are working on.
3. Led by working class people. We will only accept applications from working class people and working class led groups, e.g. where decision-making power in the group is held mostly by people who have been disadvantaged throughout their life due to their class background. We understand that people will have different definitions of what it is to be working class. This definition includes lots of people from migrant or diaspora communities, so if this is you, we don’t want this criteria to deter you from applying. Working class people are likely to have experienced some of the following experiences:
- Living in social housing, insecure or bad housing
- Not owning a property or expecting to in future
- Receiving benefits
- Regularly worrying about covering basic living costs, such as rent, food, heating
- Not expecting to receive an inheritance
- Experience of being homeless, in prison, being in care
- Being a migrant, refugee or asylum seeker
- Being disabled, including ill health and mental health conditions
- Not having been to university or perhaps being the first person in the family to have done so
- Working in low paid sectors e.g. manual labour, care, customer services
- Family not having gone to university, being in low paid work
4. Based within the boundaries of the City of Bristol
5. If it is a group application, the group must be a non-profit community group with an annual income (e.g. the amount your group has raised through fundraising, grants etc) under £10,000. You don’t have to be formally registered as a charity, Community Interest Company etc. or have a constitution. You could be a group of people who’ve recently come together to tackle an issue you’re affected by.
There are no restrictions on what you use the funds for. We trust people from the community to know what their community needs and what will work, and believe we all have the right to determine our own futures.
If you have received funding from Bristol Redistro before it would benefit your application if you can give an update on how those funds were used.
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