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BOPF Trustees have agreed to sign the following statement/letter to the Chairs of the Living Rents Commission Advisory Board. We are supporting this, alongside several other organisations represented on the Board, because of the detrimental impact of high rents on

It is with great sadness that our long-standing member Roy Hackett OBE & MBE has passed away at the age of 94. In 1963, Roy was one of the leaders of the Bristol Bus Boycott, a successful protest movement to overturn

What do you understand by the following initials; ICS, ICB,ICP? Better get used to them because they are the future of the NHS from 1st July. The new Health and Social Care Bill  'proposes to formalise these new entities from 1st

We’ve all seen them haven’t we? Advertisements showing happy elders laughing and clasping wine glasses, in their perfectly set retirement dwellings.  "Don’t worry about a thing" is the general message. "You’ll be better off here." When my husband died in 2020,

I am honoured to have been elected by the Trustees as Chair of BOPF for the coming year. I have been treasurer of BOPF and a Trustee for the last 2 years so I have been party to agreeing the

I will soon be stepping down as the Chair of BOPF.  I was first elected in July 2019, and I have thoroughly enjoyed my role during that time. Not only has it been a privilege to be Chair of our

I am delighted to let you know that Bristol Older People’s Forum has been successful in its bid to BCC’s Bristol Impact Fund (BIF). This means that BOPF will be receiving grant funding for the next 4 years (2021-2025), which

The BOPF COVID-19 Information and Advice Newsletter - May 2021 is produced in partnership with the Bristol City Council and Age UK Bristol.  We hope you will find the following articles useful, informative and enjoyable. You can also download our newsletter under BOPF Publications. In this issue p1

This exciting project has been recently set up to enable older people to make new social connections by meeting up with new friends on a regular basis via Zoom. The relaxed and informal format of each Meet-up Morning will be

Launch of Bristol Older People's Forum (BOPF) Housing Survey Report