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At our members forum meeting in October we focussed on employment. We have gathered together everyone’s comments and feedback to produce an open letter to employers, which you can read by clicking here

At our Annual General Meeting (AGM) in December our Trustees presented their annual report. You can read it in full here  

At the end of April, after 12 years based at the St Paul’s Learning Centre, BDEF moved to a larger office in Easton Community Centre. A big thank you to all the team at St Paul’s Learning Centre for their invaluable help & support over the years! After a week spent feverishly sorting and packing

Contents Introduction What did we talk about? How do we work together as a community in BDEF? What does community mean to you? How do Disabled people fit in with your idea of community in Bristol? How does BDEF fit into these ideas of Community, Bristol and you? Message from BDEF CIO staff and trustees

Hi everyone, Some of you I may already know but to everyone who I haven’t yet spoken to or met; it is great to e-meet you! My name is Megan and I’m a Bristol-adjacent (born in Bristol but grew up in Gloucestershire) Disabled person who has been working in the Disability Equality space here in

Memories of Ruth Pickersgill Easton Community Centre was built in 1989 after a management committee of local residents (Easton Community Association), (including Lil Stiddard, who supported the Centre until her 100th birthday), had a vision for a state of the art community resource, and raised the funds, employed the architect and the contractors. There had

Members will remember that the Members’ meeting in April, and then the Annual General Meeting in June, agreed in principle for Bristol Disability Equality Forum to become a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO). Changing to a CIO will give us a much better chance of getting funding from different places. It will also give protection to

This is our first e-bulletin since the incredibly sad news of the passing away of Laura Welti. As all our past and present members will know, BDEF will never be able to thank Laura enough for what she gave to our organisation. We can say with total certainty that BDEF would not have got the