To apply for group membership your group must meet all the following criteria:

1. Working to create a more just, equal and sustainable world. We are keen to support groups that are addressing needs directly as well as those who are working 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 must be led by people with first-hand experience of the issue the group is working on. 

3. Led by working class people. We will only accept applications from groups 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. A non-profit community group with an annual income (e.g. the amount your group has raised through fundraising) 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.