We’re Hiring: Health & Wellbeing Service Manager Reporting to: The Chief Executive Officer Location: Office is Brighton based, role involves some travel around Sussex Hours of Work: part-time 26 hrs per week Salary: Starting Salary: £34,000–£38,000 (FTE) depending on experience – Offered at 0.7 FTE (part-time, 26 hours per week): £23,800– £26,600 (pro-rata) About the… Continue Reading We’re Hiring: Health & Wellbeing Service Manager
LGBTQ+ 50+ Services Showcase 2025 Part of the Ageing Well Festival 2025 Join us for a welcoming and inclusive showcase of services and opportunities for LGBTQ+ people aged 50+. Wednesday 8th October 202511 am – 1 pmCommunity Base Conference Room, Brighton, BN1 3XG This free event brings together organisations from across Brighton & Hove who… Continue Reading LGBTQ+ 50+ Services Showcase 2025
GambLGBTQ+ is a research project seeking to understand gambling and related harms in LGBTQ+ communities. The University of Brighton are leading on GambLGBTQ+ in collaboration with ourselves and YouGov, and is funded by GambleAware. Research on LGBTQ+ gambling and gambling harms is limited, and the research that is available highlights the need for further research on the lived experiences of… Continue Reading GambLGBTQ+: Brighton University’s new LGBTQ+ gambling study
We’re thrilled to share that we’ve launched a crowdfunding project to raise £10,000 for Brighton & Hove LGBT Switchboard! For the past 50 years, Switchboard has been a lifeline for the LGBTQ+ community in Brighton & Hove, offering vital support, connection, and advocacy. Now, we need your help to ensure we can continue making an… Continue Reading Please donate to help secure our future!
A huge thank you to the wonderful team at Shutterly Fabulous for their generous donation of £1,700 to our crowdfunder! Shutterly Fabulous are donating £50 to us for every order in Brighton & Hove, and we couldn’t be more grateful. Shutterly Fabulous says: “Shutterly Fabulous are proud to support local charity Switchboard. In August 2024… Continue Reading Shutterly Fabulous donates £1,700 to our crowdfunder!
Brighton & Hove LGBT Switchboard is a proud member of the Sussex Research Engagement Network (REN), ensuring LGBTQ+ voices help influence health care policy and shape local services for our communities. We are thrilled the REN project was showcased at the King’s Fund Life Sciences Conference last week by NHS Sussex Chair, Stephen Lightfoot. At… Continue Reading NHS Sussex Chair showcases Community Research Project
We loved taking part in the Brighton Pride parade this year! We really appreciated the opportunity to show up for LGBTQ+ rights, especially for LGBTQ+ refugees and for the TNBI community. Pride has always been an important way for our community to be loud, proud and visible. It was amazing to see 300,000+ people in… Continue Reading Looking back on Brighton Pride 2024
It’s been brilliant to attend some of the amazing Pride events around Sussex. We kicked off Pride Season at Chichester Pride on May 25th. where some of our staff and volunteers ran a stall advertising the support we offer. They loved meeting attendees and asking what pride means to them. They had a range of… Continue Reading Happy Pride Season!
We would like to say thank you to all the amazing fundraising initiatives supporting Brighton & Hove LGBT Switchboard, over this Pride season and beyond. Have you checked out Soctopus’s new Pride sock range, which donates £4 per sock sale to Switchboard? Team members Emily (she/they) and Astrid (she/her) visited the store, where they checked… Continue Reading Thanks to our Fundraisers!
A trainee social worker is aiming to help the LGBTQ+ community in Sussex by running the Brighton Marathon in aid of Switchboard. Libbie Nicklin will put her body through the 26.2-mile test of endurance with thousands of other runners on Sunday 7 April. It will be the first time the 23-year-old Oxford Brookes University student… Continue Reading Libbie to run Brighton Marathon in aid of Switchboard
We’re delighted to announce the appointment of our new chief executive. Paul Hook (he/him – pictured) will take up the post on Tuesday 2 April following four years at the helm of Asylum Matters, a charity which works to secure social and political changes to improve the lives of refugees and people seeking asylum. Simon… Continue Reading We’re delighted to announce the appointment of our new chief executive
Today, Thursday, 14 March 2024 is Social Prescribing Day, a celebration of the people, organisations and communities who connect people to non-medical support to address issues including loneliness, debt, or stress and other unmet needs. Since 2019, thousands of local and national organisations, link workers, medical professionals, academics and students have taken part across the… Continue Reading Social Prescribing Day 2024: Reuben lifts the lid on his ‘rewarding and empowering’ work