About Bristol Legacy Foundation

Bristol Legacy Foundation (BLF) is an Afrikan-centred, community-mandated institution working for the Bristol Afrikan Heritage Community.

Guided by ancestral wisdom, community self determination, integrity, courage, and accountability, we exist to build the frameworks, structures, and cultural conditions that move Bristol toward reparatory justice.

To strengthen, protect, and enable the Afrikan Heritage Community through:

  • Community-led repair

  • Redistribution of resources

  • Transformation of systems that have caused historical and ongoing harm

PURPOSE

BLF is not a campaign organisation.

We are:

  • A framework-builder

  • An accountability mechanism

  • A facilitator of communal repair

  • A cultural anchor

We create the conditions for community and city institutions to act justly, redistribute resources, and embed reparative practices.

OUR ROLE

OUR PROCESS

Listen to, learn from, and be led by community

Call in


Convene community and city in accountable relationships

Call Together


Publicly challenge actions or behaviours misaligned with our principles

Call Out