We support groups challenging inequality of wealth and power and creating positive alternatives.

We have run four funding rounds and distributed over £40,000 to 40 groups. We are launching our fifth funding round in 2023.

Please donate to our fifth crowdfund to support those working tirelessly to bring about justice and equality for their community. You can find out more about groups funded in previous rounds here; they’ll decide who gets funded this time round.

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  • Join our collective!

    Bristol Redistro is a small group of volunteers. We raise money and distribute it to groups in Bristol working to challenge inequality and injustice and creating positive alternatives. We’ve distributed around £40,000 to small grassroots groups, most had never received funding before.  This year we were proud to have been given the funds from the Colston…

  • Beyond the Colston 4: Community and resilience

    by Ruth Pitter The generous donations from those who contributed to support the legal case of the Colston 4 stretched wider and beyond the trial itself. The surplus monies remaining from the Glad Colston’s Gone Colston 4 legal fund enabled Bristol Redistro to redistribute these to black and brown-led Bristol groups actively delivering on racial justice and…

  • £15,000 distributed to Black and Brown-led groups

    The Glad Colston’s Gone campaign ran a crowdfund to raise funds to support the 4 people who were facing criminal damage charges for toppling the Colston statue in June 2020. Since they were found not guilty the funds were no longer needed and the decision was taken to hand it over to Redistro to distribute to local Black and…

  • £13,518 funding round for Racial Justice from ‘Glad Colston’s Gone’ campaign

    After the triumphant NOT GUILTY verdict in January for the ‘Colston Four’ accused, our next funding round is to redistribute the £13,518 remaining in the #GladColstonsGone! Bristol Topplers’ Defence Fund!  This will be a special one-off round run by and for Bristol-based Black and Brown-led Racialised Groups. We encourage applications from groups from across Bristol who may…

  • Round 3 Shortlisting

    As of Saturday 20 November, eleven grassroots Bristol-based groups were shortlisted to receive a grant of up to £1,000 from Bristol Redistro. The final decisions about how much each shortlisted group is funded will be made on 4 December. We had £10,000 in available funds and the shortlisted groups had requested a total of £10,750.…

  • Workshop 25/10/21: Privilege and Redistribution

    You are warmly invited to join Bristol Redistro’s upcoming workshop:  ‘Effective ways of responding to our privilege – how do we redistribute wealth and power?’ This workshop is for people who have more wealth than they need to survive and feel uncertainty about how best it could be used. It will be an opportunity to…