Lunch Positive will be celebrating its sixth birthday on Saturday, June 6 and invite everyone to their outdoor celebration in Dorset Gardens Peace Park.
THEY’LL be setting up marquees with a picnic area serving hot foods, salads and soft drinks.
There’s no charge – but donations are welcome. You’re welcome to bring along your own food or picnic and there’ll be tables and chairs.
Gary Pargeter
Gary Pargeter, Volunteer Project Manager at Lunch Positive, said: “We’re inviting everyone in our community to come along, get together and share some good food and company. We do this every week for our members and as its our birthay we want to share the celebration more widely with our community, friends and supporters. We hope you’ll join in with our birthday celebrations at this special event. It’s all very, very informal! Just turn up, say hello, and enjoy your time. We’re hoping for good weather and a sunny day!”
Event: Lunch Positive 6th Birthday & Big Lunch
Where: Dorset Gardens Peace Park, Dorset Gardens, next to Dorset Gardens Methodist Church
When: Saturday, June 6, from 12 midday
Where: Dorset Gardens Peace Park, next to Dorset Gardens Methodist Church
Barclays is once again to be the headline sponsor of this year’s Pride in London festival championing the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT+) community.
PRIDE in London a week-long festival, from June 21 to 28, celebrating all aspects of the LGBT community last year attracted more than 750,000 people to London with 30,000 joining in the annual Parade.
Pride is one of the capitols biggest one-day events, second only to the London Marathon.
This year’s Parade takes place on Saturday, June 27, alongside the festival in Trafalgar Square and activities in Soho.
The theme of this year’s event is Heroes, celebrating individuals who have contributed to LGBT+ rights over the years. Participants are being asked to nominate their own heroes, from the famous to the unsung, and to share their suggestions via the Twitter hashtag #PrideHeroes.
Heroes follows the success of last year’s award winning #FreedomTo campaign which ran across social, digital, OOH and PR channels, driving record-breaking attendance to the event and helping to change attitudes towards LGBT+ people.
Barclays has been a close partner of Pride in London since its inception two years ago and was headline sponsor for the first time in 2014. During the festival it will be offering participants the opportunity to Ping for Pride – using its Pingit payment app which allows anyone with a bank account to donate to Pride in London from their phone or to donate via Twitter.
Event-goers will also be able to use Pingit to pay for items such as drinks and food more easily, safely, simply and quickly than with cash. They will not need to be Barclays customers to use the Pingit app.
Val Soranno Keating, Barclays’ Global LGBT+ lead and CEO of Barclaycard, said:“Pride in London is a highlight of the LGBT+ calendar in the UK and a key element in our own programme of activities in support of diversity and inclusion in the workplace, and we are delighted to be supporting as headline sponsor for the second year running.
“Our on-going relationship with Pride, both in London and across the UK, is just one of the ways in which we show our commitment to the LGBT+ community. At Barclays we want our colleagues, customers and clients to feel free to express who they are at all times. We’ve made great strides internally in creating an inclusive global workplace, but we want to go further. By supporting Pride in London, we’re saying “this is who we are” and we want to encourage everyone else to be able to say who they are, without fear.”
Michael Salter, Chair for Pride in London, added: “Pride in London has become one of the city’s largest annual events, and last year’s festivities were enjoyed by more people than ever before – so it’s fantastic that Barclays are again supporting the event as our headline sponsor.
“With our new #PrideHeroes campaign we’re encouraging people to celebrate and acknowledge the personal and historic heroes within our community, whether friends and family, factual or fictional, historic or living, political or celebrity. People will be able to publicly acknowledge their heroes and celebrate the positive impact they have had on their lives and the broader LGBT+ community.”
Warren Morgan the Leader of the Labour and Co-operative group on Brighton and Hove City council says a Labour administration under his leadership would be politically not officer led if Labour are elected at next months local elections.
Warren Morgan: Leader of Labour and Co-operative
SPEAKING at the LGBT Community Council Hustings last night he promised if elected, a Labour administration running the city council would focus on equalities, community safety, neighbourhoods, business growth and they would appoint a mental health champion to the city’s Health and Well Being Board.
In his opening speech, he said:“I’m proud to be leading Labour into the local elections here in Brighton and Hove, to be a member of a Party which is, as we speak, launching it’s national LGBT manifesto just a few hundred yards from here, to be leading a team that not only includes a significant number of out LGBT candidates in target and winnable wards, but which has a plan to take on the issues important to this city’s LGBT communities.
“A Labour council under my leadership will focus on equalities, community safety, neighbourhoods and business growth.
“I am announcing today that if we win a majority, I will establish a Neighbourhoods, Communities and Equalities Committee, with a Lead Member for Equalities, to promote a safer, stronger, healthier city, a real committee, with decision-making powers and the teeth to tackle some of the problems that persist, to devolve power to neighbourhoods and communities.
“We will take on and defeat homophobia, biphobia and trans phobia, push for stronger community policing, continue the work programme set out by the Trans Scrutiny report which I was part of, support LGBT run small businesses and more.
“As our national manifesto being launched now by Angela Eagle MP says, nearly a quarter of LGB young people, and a half of young trans people have attempted suicide. That’s a tragedy and a scandal that we all need to address.
“I’ll appoint a lead member for mental health who will sit on the city’s Health and Wellbeing Board to take that on.
“But I’m not just here tonight to promote our LGBT policies – LGBT residents and businesses need cleaner streets, roads that aren’t blocked for months on end with road works, a freeze on parking charge increases, a crackdown on bad landlords and rip-off letting agents fees and more.
“We want to make major projects at Black Rock and Madeira Drive happen, we want the Madeira Terraces and the Aquarium Terraces repaired and reopened, we want to see Kemp Town thrive.
“We are not just about getting rid of the Greens and stopping the Tories taking over again, Labour offer a positive and bold vision for the city, a city that works for you whether gay or straight, trans or cis. Give us a majority on May 7, give us the chance to serve you for the next four years.”
The LGBT Hustings at the Queens Hotel on Brighton seafront were organised by the Brighton and Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum and made possible with a grant from the Rainbow Fund.
For more information about the LGBT Safety Forum, click here:
Brighton Fringe 2014 ‘Best Comedy Show’ nominees return with their hotly anticipated second show featuring quick-fire skits, silly songs and some rather inappropriate mime.
THE Foster’s Golden Jesters Award finalists, Laughing Horse New Act of the Year 2014 semi-finalists and Brighton Fringe ‘Best Comedy Show’ nominees present delightfully awkward characters, endearingly grotesque sketches and memorable songs you’ll be singing for days.
Kitten Killers formed in April 2013 after Fran Bushe, Kat Cade and Perdita Stott met at Soho Theatre’s SYC (Soho Young Company) classes. Since then they have gone on to enjoy success all over the London circuit, a sell-out Camden Fringe run, an award nominated Brighton Fringe show and a debut Edinburgh Fringe run with Underbelly.
They return to Brighton with a brand new hour directed by Lee Griffiths (Late Night Gimp Fight).
“Every punchline lands with feline confidence” (BroadwayBaby.com)
★★★★“Kitten Killers have talent.” (Remote Goat)
★★★★“Will make you laugh until your sides hurt.” (Everything Theatre)
“Great Fun” (Kate Copstick – Scotsman)
Event: Kitten Killers
Where: The Warren: Theatre Box, Otherplace, York Place, Brighton, BN1 4GU
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