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If you’d like to share more about your identity (to help us understand who we are working with), you can choose to fill in our separate, optional Equalities Monitoring Form. This is anonymous and not linked to your membership.

By filling this separate form in, it will help us to understand which communities we are and aren’t connecting with. It will also help us to tell funders why our work is important and to hopefully access future funding.

Take a look our BDEF news

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The Reality of Disabled Hate in Bristol 2026 Launch and Report

October 26, 2026

We gathered to discuss the findings of our ‘The Reality of Disability Hate Crime in Bristol 2026 Report', developed in collaboration with SARI.

October Newsletter

October 6, 2026

As October brings cooler days and the changing colours of autumn, October is also carrying on the big changes at BDEF!

Listening to lived experience

May 22, 2026

Presenting the findings from targeted engagement with Disabled residents and allies on Bristol City Council’s South Bristol Liveable Neighbourhoods (SBLN) project.

Adult Social Care: Measuring What Matters

March 28, 2026

Looking at how Adult Social Care can monitor its performance framework based on what matters to the people who access Adult Social Care Services.

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