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We’re inviting primary care staff across Sussex to attend our free Introduction to Inclusion in Healthcare webinar. Scheduled to run from 1pm to 2pm on Wednesday, 27 March 2024, the session will give participants an opportunity to brush up on their knowledge and conversational skills around inclusion. It will also allow them to learn more… Continue Reading Sussex primary care staff invited to our free healthcare inclusion webinar

Hove-based business Shutterly Fabulous have kindly agreed to extend an arrangement under which they donate £50 to us for every order received from customers with a BN postcode. The company, a leading seller and fitter of interior shutters, has also offered to give the same customers a 30 per cent discount if they enter the… Continue Reading Shutterly Fabulous develops new customer offer to help Switchboard

New app package keeps treasured LGBTQ+ memories alive for people living with dementia The memories of LGBTQ+ community members from across the globe have been captured in a new app package designed to help people living with dementia keep treasured moments alive. LGBTQ+ charity Brighton & Hove LGBT Switchboard and National Museums Liverpool’s award-winning House… Continue Reading New app package keeps treasured LGBTQ+ memories alive for people living with dementia

For our fourth and final interview marking LGBT+ History Month 2024, we’ve had a chat with one of our trustees, Charlotte Fiander (she/her). Our conversation is set out below. We hope you enjoy reading it. Please could you tell me a little about yourself? I have worked in charity communications for the past 17 years.… Continue Reading LGBT+ History Month: Interview with Charlotte, one of our trustees

Have you got your tickets for this year’s FemFest, Brighton’s only arts festival made by and for people who are AFAB (assigned female at birth), non-binary and trans? Don’t worry if you haven’t, because you still have time before the fifth annual event gets under way with the first of 27 shows scheduled to be… Continue Reading FemFest 2024: Have you got your tickets yet?

For the third in our series of interviews marking LGBT+ History Month, we’ve had a chat with one of our staff, Reuben Davidson (he/him). Our conversation with him is detailed below. We hope you enjoy it. Please could you tell me a little about yourself? I have lived in the Brighton area for the last… Continue Reading LGBT+ History Month: Interview with Reuben, our Social Prescriber

For the second in our series of interviews marking LGBT+ History Month, we’ve had a chat with one of our volunteers, Michele (she/they), who works on our helpline. Our conversation with them is detailed below. We hope you enjoy reading it.  Please could you tell us about yourself? I’m 29 years old, in a long-term… Continue Reading LGBT+ History Month: Interview with helpline volunteer Michele

Switchboard is urgently appealing for LGBTQ+ people from Crawley to take part in research for the NHS. We need three people for a study designed to help the NHS improve its healthcare research for our community. Participants will be required to be interviewed by an LGBTQ+ researcher for 45 minutes to an hour between 5… Continue Reading Urgent: LGBTQ+ people from Crawley needed for research for NHS

Today, Thursday, 1 February 2024, is the beginning of LGBT+ History Month. This annual event was founded in 2004 to enable the LGBTQ+ community to claim our past, celebrate our present and create our future. It’s a dedicated opportunity for us to share our rich and diverse history so everyone can learn more. To mark… Continue Reading Mehul kick-starts our celebration of LGBT+ History Month

A Switchboard expert has attended a parliamentary reception to celebrate a fund which supports projects that provide a safety net for survivors of domestic abuse. Astrid Palmer (pictured), an LGBTQ+ specialist independent domestic violence advocate, was among guests invited to the House of Commons event by Labour MP Jess Phillips. The reception highlighted the work… Continue Reading Switchboard expert Astrid attends Parliament to celebrate DA safety net

Switchboard is excited to welcome five new trustees and invite people from our trans, non-binary and intersex communities to join them on our Board. Our new trustees and their role We’re delighted to welcome: Lucy Cryan (she/her) Lucy is a chartered accountant focussed on forensic accountancy and financial risk management, with experience of advising companies… Continue Reading We’re welcoming five new trustees – and inviting TNBI people to join them

LGBTQ+ refugees, asylum seekers and migrants are being invited to attend new free weekly peer support group sessions in central Brighton. The sessions are part of a new service called IRIS, or International Rainbow Inclusion Service, which has been set up by Switchboard and fellow Brighton-based charity Conversation Over Borders. The service aims to provide… Continue Reading LGBTQ+ refugees, asylum seekers and migrants invited to IRIS meet-ups