Redress. Repair. Remember.
Bristol Legacy Foundation is an Afrikan-centred, community-mandated institution working to advance reparatory justice.
We work with Afrikan Heritage Communities to build the knowledge, structures, and collective power needed to move from acknowledgement to action, in Bristol, across the UK, and globally.
REDRESS
We support the call for justice and equity for those living with the ongoing legacies of enslavement and colonialism. Redress is necessary to protect present and future generations from continued harm.
REPAIR
We uphold the right of Afrikan Heritage Communities to define and lead their own processes of repair. This includes recognising Bristol’s responsibility to confront its past and present, and to act as a model for city-wide repair.
REMEMBER
We say remember and re-member to acknowledge those Ancestors who have gone before us and sacrificed much in striving for justice and stood as role models for what embodies courage, wisdom and determination to thrive in a just, repaired world.
We are not a campaign organisation.
We are a framework-builder, an accountability mechanism, and a cultural anchor, creating the conditions for communities and institutions to act justly, redistribute resources, and embed reparative practice.
WHAT WE DO
Framework Building
We design and support structures that enable reparatory justice to move from conversation into practice.
Community Led Repair
We work with Afrikan Heritage Communities to shape and lead initiatives rooted in self-determination, knowledge, and collective healing.
Accountability & Transformation
We create spaces and mechanisms that hold institutions accountable and support long-term systemic change.
Bristol’s wealth and global standing were shaped by the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Afrikans.
The impacts of this history remain present today.
Our work exists to ensure that truth is acknowledged, responsibility is taken, and repair is shaped by those most affected.
PROJECTS
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Local
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National
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Global