Information about the Bristol Impact Fund, the Community Resilience Fund and funding for local projects from Community Infrastructure Levy.
The Bristol Impact Fund
The Bristol Impact Fund is a collective of 8 of the council's grant funds that aims to tackle inequality.
The third round of the Bristol Impact Fund (BIF3) has a budget of £8.8 million over four years.
BIF3 will build on the foundations of BIF1 and BIF2 to prioritise investments into neighbourhood organisations and citywide equalities communities.
People's Voice project
The People's Voice project is part of the Bristol Impact Fund.
At the moment there is no organisation in Bristol for disabled people with learning difficulties (traditionally known as people with learning difficulties and disabilities) which is led by disabled people with learning difficulties .
The Bristol Impact Fund set aside some of its money to fund some research to find out if disabled people with learning difficulties wanted their own organisation.
Read pdf more about the People's Voice project(463 KB) .
WECIL have run People's Voice Project since summer 2023, working with the Project Workers to set up a new organisation for people with learning difficulties.
The Community Resilience Fund
Applications for funding closed in October 2022. Find out which projects reveived funding.
Funding for local projects from Community Infrastructure Levy
Funding is available each year from the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL), paid by developers to be spent on community projects in the local area where their development is happening.
Local councillors allocate the funds through their area committees to support local priority projects, such as improving community centres or parks.
Find out more on Funding for local projects.