Provides a centre in the community for collecting and distributing donated items that refugees and homeless people and others in need may want. Provides some community events such as dancing for everyone to enjoy. It is relatively new. Has LONG hours of opening in this cold weather so people can go there.

"HOPE and help to refugees."

BDAA's aim is to make Bristol THE Dementia Friendly City of the UK by running Dementia awareness sessions to businesses, groups or individuals. Participants include: Bristol Airport, Wessex Water, Brownies, Scouts, NCS etc.

It has designed a strategy to recruit 'footsoldiers'. These volunteers come from any walk of life, business, group and play a critical role in promoting BDAA's message.

BDAA wants Bristol to be a place where people with Dementia, their carers and family can live, work or visit knowing they will be treated with courtesy and respect.

BDAA does this because:

1.    There are 850,000 people in the UK living with Dementia, 4500 live in Bristol!

Many people do not know what Dementia is, they don't recognise the symptoms and they dont know how to support people with Dementia.

2. The Chairman’s wife, Barbara, has had symptoms of Frontal Temporal Dementia since 1999. So for them it's personal.

Supported many survivors and run groups for survivors and their families.

Ujima Radio has created new innovative ways to share information, improve employment opportunities to provide platforms for cultural and creative expression. Its broadcasting philosophy is to use news, arts and culture to bring together the diverse Black and Minority Ethnic communities and wider communities in Bristol and the region. Overall, we celebrate cultural diversity and challenge inequality through social action.

Since launching in 2008, the station has attracted over 400 volunteers, whilst it currently caters for over 100 volunteers in various capacities. Our listenership is growing and reaches thousands of listeners every day providing a platform for local organisations and individuals to engage as guests with our listenership

This year we celebrated our tenth year anniversary with our Year of Change agenda involving city conversations, artistic events including Sisters With Voices at St George's Bristol to celebrating BAME women and commemorate 100 years of the women's right to vote.

Vision BME stands for Visual Society in One Network.  It's a grass roots community based support group which aims to:

- Encourage  participation and create a voice amongst the minority & ethnic communities who are currently under-represented in Hartcliffe & Withywood

- Provide a forum for members to celebrate and promote cultural and ethnic diversity

- Use creative ways of reaching these BME communities to ensure that everyones voice is heard, regardless of their cultural or ethnic makeup.

This group meets regularly and offers a social, support network for local BME families.  It is made up of long standing local residents - led by Avril and Marilyn who are wonderful and fierce campaigners for social justice and equalities.  They give up so much time to make this group work.  They reach out to new families and help them overcome and challenge barriers which can be multi-fold in an area of the highest deprivation and with the highest rates of hate crime in the whole of Avon & Somerset.  They run parties, empowerment and information sessions and they offer be-friending.