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A warm welcome to the April edition of our Newsletter!
Read on for news from the Sector, our Members and the Consortium Team.
Sector News
The LGBT Fund
FUNDING – undoubtedly the single largest issue faced by our sector since the first LGBT organisations were formed.
In speaking to our Members, we hear time and time again the struggles
that many face year on year just to survive, let alone grow to the size
they think that they need to be to best serve their communities.
Check out our website to find out about our plans for a new LGBT Fund to help fuel growth in our sector.
Last few places available for -
Getting Our Voices Heard: a free one day workshop
The last few places are up for grabs for this free one day workshop that we are running in partnership with Stonewall.
The one day workshops are taking place on Friday 13th April and again on Saturday 14th April.
The workshops will be using the proposed reform to the 2004 Gender
Recognition Act as a learning framework for the day, to give LGBT groups
and community activists the chance to build influencing and campaigning
skills.
Find out more information and how to book your group's place here
Sexual Orientation Monitoring
The
CEOs of two leading LGBT Charities are sending out a call to action to
all LGBT groups to address the huge lack of evidence about LGBT people,
their needs and experiences.
Paul Martin, CEO of LGBT Foundation and Paul Roberts, CEO of LGBT
Consortium have written a letter to highlight how monitoring sexual
orientation, gender identity and trans status can help address that lack
of evidence.
LGBT Consortium Welcomes New Sustainable Funding Manager
Matt Halliday joins LGBT Consortium in the brand new post of Sustainable Funding Development Manager.
This
one year project will seek to address the sector's lack of access to
sustainable funding and will explore how we may go about setting up a
new LGBT Investment Fund for the sector.
Matt comes with a wealth of LGBT sector experience, having previously worked for GMFA and as CEO of London Friend.
As
part of our focused engagement work with our Members in London we are
pleased to launch the first in a series of regular networking events.
These events will provide a space for LGBT groups and organisations in
London to meet, share experiences and learn about local opportunities
and shape the work we do in the city. Each event will enable us to
address some of the issues that organisations and groups face.
At our Spring Networking Event, you will have the chance to tell us what
the next events should be focussing on and how these events can benefit
your groups the most.
The
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new, Europe-wide law
that replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 in the UK. It sets out
requirements for how organisations will need to handle personal data
from 25 May 2018.
We have gathered together some useful guidance and resources from a range of partners to help guide members through the process.
2018
Pride season is upon us and we are proud to already support many Pride
organisations across the UK, but we want to be able to help more!
Are you involved with organising a Pride event, or do you know someone
who is? We have a great range of Membership Benefits tailored to suit
Pride organisations!
Gaydio Youth Academy are recruiting young people in the Midlands to join a weekly youth group to develop new skills in media.
Now in its 5th year, they have seen hundreds of young people come
through their doors with little or no experience in media and leaving
with improved confidence, new passions and plenty of memories.
Reformed ‘ComeOut’ group scaling new heights in North Devon
LGBT
Number3, North Devon Sunrise and Drink Wise, Age Well Devon have joined
forces to relaunch the ‘ComeOut’ group to provide members of the
LGBT+ community across North Devon with the opportunity to get together
to enjoy events, activities, workshops, talks and counselling in
Barnstaple on the first Saturday of every month.
Nominations
for the annual Being Proud Awards close on the 12th of April. The
awards are a chance to acknowledge and recognise the hard work and
achievements of people making a positive difference to the lives of
lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans young people.
Here
are just a selection of the exciting opportunities which are
currently available with our Members. But we don't have space to list
them all here, so please visit the Work in the Sector page & Volunteering Opportunities page on our website for full details of all the available vacancies.
As
a Member of the National LGB&T Partnership, part of the health
system in England Health and Wellbeing Alliance, we are passionate about
ensuring our communities are counted, and count! To support this, we
are part of a drive to increase sexual orientation and trans status
monitoring, so we can reduce health inequalities that LGBT people face.
We are calling out to Members to encourage their own monitoring and to
look to their local areas and see how a range of Authorities are
approaching this. Please do check out the news story on our website to find out more.
Your Engagement Team
The Engagement Team are all gearing up for the Getting Our Voices Heard
event that we are running in partnership with Stonewall on the 13th and
14th of April. We are looking forward to meeting many of our Members
there, the last few places for both days are up for grabs this weekend,
so find out more and book your group's place here.
Next month we will announce our new training schedule, which will
match the needs of our Members with a practical set of training sessions
and resources... so watch this space!
We continue to roll out our new Engagement
Team plan, which sees each of our Members having their own named
Engagement Officer. This enables us to work closely with them to create
their own bespoke Membership Plan, ensuring that each Member gets the
most out of their Membership.
Our Trans Organisations Network is busy preparing for the announcement
of the Government consultation around reforming the Gender Recognition
Act and will be releasing a Brief next week.
For more information about the work of the Engagement Team or to find out how to access support get in touch.
Sophie - National LGBT Anti-Bullying Project Coordinator
Despite some training sessions being snowed off, work continues apace with the Anti-HBT bullying project.
The first project newsletter went out in March to schools involved with the project, and our project webpage
has been set up with some of the factsheets available for
download. More project resources will be added to the page as they
become available.
New Members
A Warm Welcome to our Newest Members!
We are delighted to welcome the following new members to LGBT Consortium.
Please click on the name of the organisation to find out more about them.
Here are
just a few of the exciting events from our Members which are coming up
this month. But we don't have space to list them all here, so please
visit the events page on our website for full details of all the upcoming events.
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