To apply for individual membership you 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. You are from a community most affected by inequality (e.g. women, non-binary, LGBTQ+, working class, disabled, migrant, Black and racially minoritised people). You must have first-hand experience of the issue the group is working on. 

3. You are working class. We will only accept applications from 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 fits 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