March Newsletter
🗞 Our March Newsletter is out! In this edition you will find an important update about the Supportive Schools Campaign, news about Lesbian Visibility Week, our Spring Support Sessions, Team […]
Read MoreLGBT+ Sector Responds to the Government’s Draft ‘Guidance for Schools and Colleges: Gender Questioning Children’.
Following a long wait and several delays, the UK Government have today, 19th December, released their draft ‘Guidance for Schools and Colleges: Gender Questioning Children’. We would like to reassure […]
Read MoreFinal Evaluation of the LGBT+ Futures: Equity Fund
We are excited to be publishing the final evaluation of the LGBT+ Futures: Equity Fund, which has been funded by The National Lottery Community Fund, thanks to National Lottery players. […]
Read MoreConsortium Welcomes New Chair of Trustees
Today Consortium welcomes a new Chair of Trustees, Yatin Mistry, as we always say farewell and a huge thank you to outgoing Chair Christopher French, who stands down after 3 […]
Read More£20,000 awarded through our LGBT+ Futures: Faith Fund
Consortium is delighted to have awarded £20,000 to LGBT+ organisations thanks to generous funding from a private donor. 20 LGBT+ organisations across the country received funding. Funds were awarded to […]
Read MoreStatement on the ruling in Mermaids v Charity Commission and LGB Alliance
Consortium are disappointed to learn that the appeal was dismissed on the grounds of legal standing. Although the judges were invited to indicate what their decision would have been on […]
Read More2023 Volunteer Awards: Highly Commended Nominations
Volunteers’ Week reminds us all to take the time to say thank you to the LGBTQIA+ volunteers who dedicate their time volunteering for the LGBTQIA+ sector. This is why we […]
Read MoreNew Funding Partnership for Trans Rights Makes First Award
New Funding Partnership for Trans Rights Makes First Award Consortium is delighted to have made a grant award of £10,000 to TransActual, a trans-led […]
Read More2023 LGBTQIA+ Volunteers’ Awards Winners
It’s Volunteers Week! Volunteering keeps our communities going, and is a week when we recognise and celebrate the contributions from LGBTQIA+ volunteers all over the UK! Volunteers’ Week reminds us […]
Read MoreILGA releases latest Rainbow Europe index, UK falls to 17th place
ILGA Europe have published their latest Rainbow Europe map and rankings, with the UK once again dropping in the ratings and now sitting at 17th place in the list of […]
Read MoreTrans Day of Visibility – Creative Blog from Consortium’s TNBI Staff
Helmut De Nardi (they/he) – London Engagement Officer A note on time Pronouns, presentation, time. A lifetime of wondering, ignoring or questioning feelings instead of thriving; A child in […]
Read MoreLondon Funders Fair
At Consortium we recently hosted our first ever Funders Fair, at the London LGBTQ+ Community Centre. The event was an opportunity for our London members to meet and get to […]
Read MoreLGBT+ History Month 2024 – TRANSforming Futures
Damien Da Silva, TRANSforming Futures Grant Officer TRANSforming Futures is a partnership project bringing together 10 organisations (Be:North, CliniQ, Galop, Gendered Intelligence, GIRES, LGBT Consortium, Mermaids, Sparkle, Stonewall, and UK […]
Read MoreWe Are All Humans – Time to Call, Enough!
In the last 10 days we have seen our LGBT+ identities attacked in ways we haven’t seen since the 80/90’s. The focus of these attacks have been trans people and […]
Read MoreMental Health Awareness Week – Consortium Team Blog
This year, Mental Health Awareness Week is focussed on anxiety – what it is, how it affects us and what we can do about it. The last few years have […]
Read MoreTrans Day of Visibility Blog
Trans Day of Visibility turns 14 years old this year! This awareness day was started back in 2009 by American trans activist, Rachel Crandall, to counteract and balance the grief […]
Read MoreNeurodiversity Celebration Week Blog
It’s Neurodiversity Celebration Week! This week is “a worldwide initiative that challenges stereotypes and misconceptions about neurological differences. It aims to transform how neurodivergent individuals are perceived and supported by […]
Read MoreInternational Women’s Day
International Women’s Day is a day for all women. It’s a day where we celebrate that women are diverse, and complex, and interesting, and it’s also a time to shine […]
Read MoreDiscussing LGBTQIA+ experiences of immigration detention
On 7 February it was time for the quarterly meetup for organisations, groups and projects that support LGBTQIA+ asylum seekers, migrants and refugees. Together with our wonderful member and co-organiser, […]
Read MoreRace Equality Week 2023
Some thoughts from Nikita Chadha (she/they), Consortium’s Racial Justice Engagement Officer: Race Equality Week is starting across the UK today. With any awareness week, there can be an increase in […]
Read MoreCourt of Session to hear key trans case on Wednesday
Court of Session to hear key trans case on Wednesday On Wednesday, the Court of Session in Edinburgh will hear arguments in a key trans equality case. Scottish Trans, part […]
Read MoreSAFEGUARDING LGBT+ CHRISTIANS SURVEY 2021
SAFEGUARDING SURVEY SHOWS ONLY A THIRD OF UK ADULT LGBT+ CHRISTIANS SAY THEY FEEL ‘SAFE TO BE OUT’ IN THEIR LOCAL CHURCH. A 2021 safeguarding survey amongst over 750 […]
Read MoreTrans in the City’s Public Response to Statements by the EHRC
Trans in the City has spent several years attempting to engage with the UK Government in a positive conversation around its approach towards trans people. We have received very little […]
Read MoreSparkle – The National Transgender Charity’s Public Response to Statements by the EHRC
Sparkle – The National Transgender Charity strongly condemns the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) attempts to intervene in the Scottish consultation on reform of the Gender Recognition Act, and […]
Read MoreFirst Pride event launches in Cannock Chase
A new Pride festival will launch in Staffordshire in 2022 to offer greater support to the region’s LGBTQ+ community. Plans for the first Chase Pride have been announced, aimed at […]
Read MoreLGBTI network responds to Equality & Human Rights Commission letter on trans equality
The Equality Network, a national LGBTI organisation in Scotland, and its project Scottish Trans, have responded to a letter sent today by the GB Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), […]
Read MoreTrans people and allies call for their rights outside the Scottish Parliament
Scottish Trans joins legal challenge to protect trans people’s equal participation in the next Scottish Census Equality charity says that attempt to overturn well established guidance for trans men and […]
Read MoreWelcome for Holyrood report on banning conversion practices
End Conversion Therapy Scotland welcomes Holyrood Committee report into a ban on Conversion Practices Scotland’s major LGBT+ groups and the End Conversion Therapy Campaign have welcomed a report from the […]
Read MoreLaunch of LGBTQI+ mental health resource for young people
Following a survey of and workshops with LGBTQI+ young people, the Anna Freud Centre has created a free resource to support LGTBQI+ young people’s mental health. The resource explores […]
Read More“You’re Safe Here” scheme rolls out in Liverpool
A scheme to create safe spaces in venues across the Liverpool City Region, developed in response to a spate of hate crimes against the LGBT+ community in the city, has […]
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