The Black Development Agency manages the Bright Project. The purpose of the project is to work with Black and other Minority Ethnic (BME) voluntary sector organisations in the Bristol and South Gloucestershire to help to improve access to legal and benefits advice for their communities. It aims:
- To improve the quantity and quality of advice centres for BME communities in Bristol and South Gloucestershire.
- To increase the number of BME agencies having the capacity and resources to offer direct advice services to BME communities.
- To address the community languages advice needs within BME communities and reduce the need for interpreting services.
- To address the specific advice needs of refugee communities.
- To ensure effective networking and linkages between BME communities and all other advice providers in Bristol & South Gloucestershire and develop effective referral systems.
