Three charities across the city have been awarded a slice of almost £750,000 from the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Bristol Next Link Domestic Abuse Services (NLDAS), based in Queen Square, and Easton charities The Brigstowe Project and the Single Parent Action Network (Span) are all set to benefit from the Strategic Funding Programme.

Overall the funding programme will offer nearly £10 million to 61 organisations across England, Scotland and Wales.

NLDAS will use the funding to help support black, south Asian and Muslim women and children experiencing domestic violence.

The Brigstowe Project, in Easton Road, Bristol, will use the cash to improve the quality of life for people living with or affected by HIV, while Span which will fund a project to enable disadvantaged single parent women living in poverty and isolation.

The Commission's funding programme, which received over 2,000 applications worth in excess of £500 million, provides project-based funding for up to three years and up to £450,000, for community and voluntary sector organisations.

Baroness Margaret Prosser, deputy chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said: "The Commission's strategic funding programme will help organisations in the South West that make a real difference to hundreds of thousands of people."