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Charity calls for dating industry to make reporting safety concerns easier

Independent research has found that a third of online daters have been concerned for their personal safety when communicating online or meeting potential partners from a dating website or app.

The research, which was carried out by YouGov on behalf of personal safety charity Suzy Lamplugh Trust (SLT) and funded by dating service Match also found that, despite the high number of users reporting safety concerns, over half of those never reported the incident to the dating provider.

Around 7.8 million adults in the UK used dating sites in 2016, making it the largest single way in which relationships start in Britain today. Whilst the majority are without incident, with 32% of respondents feeling concerned for their safety and over half of those not having reported the concern to their dating provider, the SLT believes that the number of unreported dating safety concerns could be over a million.

Rachel Griffin
Rachel Griffin

Rachel Griffin, CEO of the SLT, said: “While dating is mostly a fun and enjoyable experience, our research shows that the majority of those who have had concerns for their safety simply block perpetrator profiles, with 15% of daters feeling their report would not be acted upon by the service provider, 12% saying there wasn’t an easy way to report the concern on the dating website, and 7% feeling too embarrassed to report it.

It is essential that dating agencies encourage and support their members to report all incidents and concerns and that the mechanism for reporting is clear and easy to follow. This not only helps the individual involved, but may also safeguard other users as online dating agencies can spot potential problems and act immediately to protect their members.”

The research also shows that people feel comfortable sharing information about themselves online, with 44% saying it was easier getting to know someone quickly on an online dating website or app compared to face-to-face. 75% of those who have seen advice on safe dating said they have read it, but over half of those who have never acted on the advice they read (53%) said they felt they were already being careful (53%) or doing everything suggested (47%).

Suzy Lamplugh Trust personal safety advice includes:

♦      When online keep all communications with unknown persons through the dating website and not via personal communications such as social media.

♦      When chatting with someone online it’s better to talk about where you’ve been rather than where you’re going.

♦      When meeting people for dates tell someone where you’re going, who you’re meeting and check in with them before, during and after the date.

♦      Agree that if you don’t check in as agreed or respond then your friend would call the place where you’ve met or even go there to check on you.

♦      Report any suspicious or offensive behaviour to the online dating site.

For further information about the SLT and personal safety advice, click here:

Speaker Tour features young people with HIV

Young campaigners living with HIV in Brighton for National Speaker Tour

♦ Inspiring stories told as part of nationwide speaker tour organised by Youth Stop AIDS

Local students support tour as part of It Ain’t Over campaign

There is nothing more powerful than hearing the life experiences of people affected by HIV & AIDS to motivate you to take action. That’s why on Tuesday, Brighton will have the chance to hear the inspiring stories of young people living with HIV.

The powerful event is part of a month-long nationwide speaker tour organised by Youth Stop AIDS  and hosted in Brighton by Sussex Youth Stop AIDS, where stories of triumph over adversity inspire people to take action on the global HIV & AIDS epidemic.

The local Sussex Youth Stop AIDS society is one of the nine lucky hosts for this year’s tour, which attracted over 700 people last year when people were moved to tears and laughter as powerful stories weaved between humour, positivity and emotionally hard-hitting experiences, such as being humiliated at school or suffering violent schizophrenic delusions.

Speakers visiting the city include:

  • Alex Causton-Ronaldson (UK): First Dates Contestant told he had to reveal he was HIV-Positive on television
  • Krishen Samuel (South Africa): Fashion blogger championing LGBT+ rights
  • Jimmy Isaacs (UK): Former employer reduced his pay because he was HIV positive

Young campaigners will also be hitting the streets of Brighton with a giant postcard for people to sign in support of its campaign to promote the global fight against HIV & AIDS, called It Ain’t Over. The postcard will be sent to the Secretary of State for International Development, Priti Patel.

Connor Moylett, Sussex Youth Stop AIDS, said: “As a group we’ve seen the incredible effect that first hand accounts can have. The power for change in the words of those directly affected cannot be underestimated; listening and sharing stories can change apathy to activism.”

James Cole, Youth Stop AIDS National Coordinator, said: “We can beat AIDS, but It Ain’t Over. AIDS is now the second largest killer of young people in the world – in 2000 it wasn’t even in the top ten. We hope that hearing about the experiences of young people living with HIV directly at tours like this, will inspire more people to join our fight. Sign our petition!”


Event: Speaker tour organised by Youth Stop AIDS

Where: Jubilee Theatre, Lecture Room at Sussex University Campus, Falmer, Brighton

When: Tuesday, February 28

Time: 6pm

Cost: Free entry

To reserve place, click here:

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PREVIEW: Polari Soho Special

As part of its tenth birthday celebrations, London’s award-winning LGBT+ literary salon returns to its Soho roots with this special event for London Book & Screen Week.

Hosted by Paul Burston with readings from poet Sophia Blackwell, author Christopher Fowler and author and comedian VG Lee.

Cocktails and chat from 6.30pm. Readings from 7pm.

This event is part of London Book & Screen Week, a seven-day, citywide celebration of books and the films, TV programmes and virtual worlds they inspire.

For more information about Polari Literary Salon, click here:


Event: Polari Soho Special

Where: The Light Lounge, 1 Newport Place. London WC2H 7JR

When: Monday, March 13

Time: 6.30pm – 8.30pm

Cost: £5

To book tickets online, click here:

International Women’s Day: Free events at Brighton Museum and Dome on March 4

Brighton Museum, Brighton Dome and Brighton Women’s Centre (BWC) join forces to present their annual celebration of International Women’s Day.

A specially curated programme of inspiring speakers, activists and innovators, workshops, arts and crafts, causes and campaigns for all the family has been programmed and everyone welcome.

Free day at Brighton Museum:

Saturday, March 4, 10am-5pm (free admission, drop-in)

Free entry for everyone at Brighton Museum as they celebrate International Women’s Day, with Brighton Dome and Brighton Women’s Centre. Be inspired and empowered by a diverse programme of talks, performances and workshops:

To view programme online, click here:


All Day, Brighton Museum Art Room – Children’s Area

The Early Childhood Project host a dynamic and nurturing children’s area for children and their carers to enjoy together. There will be activities for a range of ages from 0 – 12, plus plenty for parents and carers to browse and talk about.


All Day (except 1-2pm), Brighton Museum Lab: Wonder Women

Meet some incredible women from history, including Brighton suffragette, Minnie Turner, and fossil hunter Mary Anning, whilst getting up close and personal with some of Brighton Museum’s Collections.


All Day, Brighton Museum Lunch Room: Brighton Women’s Centre Drop-in Space (women only)

For the first time ever they are providing a safe, nurturing environment for all self-identified women at International Women’s Day. The space will be free to access and experienced BWC staff and volunteers will offer support and a kind ear, information about specialist organisations, or simply company.


10am – 4pm, Brighton Museum: Virgin Territory Workspace

Take a moment to reflect and make something in response to how our highly digitized, porn-infused culture is affecting young people’s identities, personal choices and relationships.


10.30am – 11.15am: Sing Your Heart Out with Aneesa Chaudhry! (women only)

No judgement, even from yourself. Just a chance to get together with women from all around and to use that voice of yours to sing, have fun and make some new friends.

10.30am – 11.30am, Brighton Museum Seminar Room: Heritage Voices, Women Write

Poet Evlynn Sharp will facilitate this workshop and encourage everyone to write from the heart of ourselves; to write through our daring, our courage, our vulnerability; to share our words in community, in hope, and in tribute to creative freedom.


11am – 11.30am, Brighton Museum Education Pavilion: Feminism in Theory with Simi Dosekun

Simi, a Nigerian feminist, makes a case for why feminism needs theory, but also more. By drawing on examples from black and African feminist thinking, she will take us through some of the ways in which theory can sharpen our activist practice.


11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm & 3pm, Brighton Museum: Walking Talking Curator on the hour every hour

Pop up talks with curator Dr Alexandra Loske, looking at paintings brought out specially from the museum store, by Dame Laura Knight, Angelica Kauffmann, amongst others.


11.30am & 2.30pm, Brighton Museum: Discover the Women of Brighton with tour guide Louise Peskitt

Explore the important women of Brighton’s history with a walking tour of the Royal Pavilion Estate (approximately 45 minutes long). Meet in the Museum Foyer


11.45 – 12.15pm, Brighton Museum Education Pavilion: A Beginner’s Guide to Intersectionality with Arianne Shavisi

Arianne Shavisi will introduce the idea of intersectionality, which simply means that feminists should consider the many different, interlinked ways in which people are affected by the way our society operates.


11.45am – 1pm, Brighton Museum Temporary Exhibition Gallery: Open Space Discussion with Brighton Women’s Centre

Sophie Gibson of Brighton Women’s Centre invites you to join their Open Space Discussion: What does it mean to be a Feminist in the twenty first century?


12pm – 5pm, Brighton Museum Seminar Room: Complementary Therapies (Women Only)

Maja Jordan and her team will be offering a range of low cost complementary therapies including Indian Head Massage and Reiki.


12pm – 1.45pm, Brighton Museum Old Courtroom: In Conversation: Women and Photography

Join renowned photographers Marilyn Stafford and Nina Emett as they each present a selection of photographs from their work based on the theme of women, hosted by Miniclick facilitator, Jim Stephenson.


12pm – 2pm, Lunch with Real Junk Food Project

Come and fill your bellies at IWD with the most delicious and ethically sourced food.


12.30pm – 1pm, Brighton Museum Education Pavilion: Travelling Alone with Laura Barton

Join Laura Barton as she talks about her experiences of travelling alone as a woman in theEducation Pavilion.


1pm – 2pm, Brighton Museum Lab: Zine Making Workshop

Anyone can make a zine. You don’t need a computer, fancy programming, or super cool contacts. You just need something to say, and some materials with which to express that!


1.15pm – 1.30pm, Brighton Museum: Staging the Female Experience with Charlotte Vincent

Charlotte Vincent talks about why her work interrogates gender stereotypes, power, violence and pornography and discusses the need for women’s stories to be heard to counter the insidious sexism and creative bravado that seems to persists within our culture and beyond.


1.15pm – 1.45pm, Brighton Museum Education Pavilion: Leap In with Alexandra Heminsley

Alexandra Heminsley discusses her latest book, Leap In.


2pm – 2.30pm, Brighton Museum Education Pavilion: Fat Bodies with Mathilda Gregory

Mathilda Gregory is a writer and a performer who makes work about bodies and popular culture. She is the most famous author of werewolf erotica in the world.


2.45pm – 3.15pm, Brighton Museum Fashion & Style Gallery: Helen McCookerybook: Women in Punk

Helen Reddington, aka musician and writer ‘Helen McCookerybook’ lifts the lid on women in the punk scene.  Plus the last chance to see the display Photo-Punk: 40 images from the birth of UK punk by Ian Dickson and Kevin Cummins.


2.45pm – 3.45pm, Brighton Museum Education Pavilion: Blog to Express, not to Impress

Join Brighton Girl editors Pippa and Sofaya for a workshop encouraging you to break all of the rules you’ve heard about blogging and do it your own way.


New display: Marvellous Mary Merrifield

From March 4, Museum Lab display case (adjacent to North Balcony, free with admission), Brighton Museum

Mary Philadelphia Merrifield (1804–1889) was a remarkable, self-educated woman who spent most of her life in Brighton. She wrote about colour, dress history, marine algae and even Brighton’s tourist features, and was actively involved in shaping the natural history collections at Brighton Museum in the later 19th century. To mark International Women’s Day on March 8 this small display outside Museum Lab will include images, maps, letters, books and other items relating to Merrifield’s life.

There will also be a related talk later in the month at The Keep:

In Search of Colour in the 1840s: Mrs Merrifield’s Continental Journey, March 29, 5:30-6:30, at The Keep

With art historian and curator Dr Alexandra Loske.

For more information, click here:


Brighton Dome and Brighton Museum
Brighton Dome and Brighton Museum

At Brighton Dome:

All Day, Brighton Dome Cafe bar – Communal Quilting

Join SmallHillArts to make a communal, unconventional patchwork quilt.

All Day, Brighton Dome Cafe bar – Radical Self Portraits

All Day, Brighton Dome Mezzanine bar – Cultural Sharing


11.45am – 12.45pm, Brighton Museum Mezzanine Landing: Women’s Self Defence (women only)

Time to get active and equip yourself with some valuable self defence skills at the same time. Anna’s class is designed to be fun and can be taken at a pace suitable to you.


2pm – 3.30pm, Brighton Dome Concert Hall: Panel Discussion: Do We Need Women Only Spaces?

Join the panellists Katharine Sacks-Jones, Lisa Dando, Natasha Scott, Caroline Lucas MP, Larissa Kennedy, and Sophie Heawood.


3.30pm – 4pm, Brighton Dome Café Bar: Raffle Prize-giving


4pm – 5pm, Brighton Dome Concert Hall: Miss Represented Sharing

Women only events are open to ALL self-identifying women

For more information about International Women’s Day in Brighton, click here:

PREVIEW: Sisters are doing it for themselves!

An event celebrating International Women’s Day –  Singing workshop led by Aneesa Chaudhry

Time for a workshop where women can sing out their views on today’s unsettling times. This will be a kick ass workshop encouraging women, sisters, mum’s, daughters, friends to come together and make some noise.

Aneesa Chaudhry is the Musical Director of the Rainbow Chorus, European Queer Choir, Martlets Hospice GOOD VIBRATIONS Choir and St Lukes Primary School Community Choir. She loves getting people to explore their voices and let out what’s inside!

She’ll be teaching you the workshop titled song, plus music from 4 Non Blonde’s, Janis Joplin and MILCK’s Women’s anthem that’s been sung around the world since the women’s March in January.

To learn a voice part that suits you in advance of the workshop, click here:

Everyone’s welcome! Go along with a fire in your belly and ready to make some noise.


Event: Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves!  Singing workshop led by Aneesa Chaudhry

Where: Latest Music Bar, 14-17 Manchester Street, Brighton

When: Sunday, March 5

Time: 11am – 2pm

To book a place, click here:

Book by February 14 and you get 10% discount when you arrive.

 

Greens claim their ‘spend to save’ budget proposals will save £2 million to protect essential services

Green Councillors have released their proposals ahead of todays annual Budget Council meeting laying out ways the Greens would seek to make changes to the present budget.

They argue a spend to save approach to the budget would net the Council an additional £2 million and prevent cuts to essential services.

Their spend to save, approach focusses on the following set of priorities:

♦  Spending to save money: focusing on the value of prevention

♦  Homelessness and temporary accommodation

♦  Getting serious about value for money: Contract management

♦  Raising income through fairer budget redistribution

♦  A long-term approach

Greens maintain their calculations show that the Council would obtain an additional £2 million income should they support the Green approach.

This would more than offset the current plans to cut key services such as Community Youth Work, Early Help, Third Sector Investment, Supported Buses and Community Safety. It would also create the finance to save potential cuts to Allsorts Youth Project and the LGBT/Hate Crime specialist officer in the Council’s Partnership Community Safety Team, which is the last remaining dedicated LGBT post at the Council.

Convenor of the Green Group, Councillor Phélim Mac Cafferty, said: “We hope by making it clear in our document that everyone can see the sound and reasoned approach we are taking. All the evidence supports the fact that if you cut services you will inherit problems in the future. This is why we are committed to a different approach, putting prevention at the heart of our proposals.

Our approach requires all parties to put the evidence about prevention being better than a cure ahead of their concerns about making savings in this financial year. While we can only make amendments, and they will no doubt be challenged, our paper is about our challenge to the Tory mantra of cuts and our push for bold alternatives to protect those most at risk.”

To read the budget document which sets out and evidences the rationale underpinning each of the Green proposals, click here:

Manchester Pride supports local LGBT projects with community grants

Manchester’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) charity, and organiser of The Manchester Pride Festival, reveals first projects to receive grants from its community fund in 2017.

Every year grants from the Manchester Pride Community Fund, which is made up of money raised throughout the year by the charity, are issued to help different groups and organisations that support LGBT+ people.

Grants awarded in January will go to three city centre based groups; Let’s Do Lunch, Mancunian Way and Gay Gordons.

Let’s Do Lunch is an organisation which provides a safe environment for lesbians to meet in Manchester’s gay village, regardless of race, faith, employment status, age or any disabilities. The grant will be used for basic stationery and essential admin costs to enable the group to meet.

Mancunian Way, is a specialist in street engagement and education of young people on personal safety and choice. They work on the streets at the times of greatest need, ensuring young people have access to the help and guidance they need to improve their own life outcomes. Mancunian Way links up with many support partners and statutory agencies to ensure their aims are fulfilled.

The Gay Gordons is a group of Scottish country dance enthusiasts who felt that the gay community in Greater Manchester could benefit from something new and different. The group is open to everyone within the LGBT+ Community and their friends. It holds weekly dances to promote fitness and wellbeing as well as demonstrations during the summer.

The Manchester Pride Community Fund currently stands at £174k after another record year of fundraising in 2016.

The organisation, which fundraises via events and other initiatives including The Manchester Pride Festival, raised £149k last year plus it is putting £25k of unclaimed grants from 2015 back into the pot.

Every year Manchester pride donates 25% of the Manchester Pride Fund to support the LGBT+ Foundation’s Safer Sex Pack and 25% to the George House Trust Welfare Fund.

Grants will also be available throughout the year with awards being made every quarter.

Groups wishing to apply for the grants, click here:

Mark Fletcher
Mark Fletcher

Mark Fletcher, Chief Executive of Manchester Pride, said: “With a massive £174k in the Manchester Pride Fund this year we have a huge responsibility to distribute it to as many causes as possible. We have made a great start with Let’s Do Lunch, Mancunian Way and the Gay Gordons but we want to hear from as many groups as possible throughout the year to ensure that we are able to support a diverse selection of people.”

Manchester Pride fundraising events include The Manchester Pride Spring Benefit which is held annually in May, Dress Down Day in August and The Manchester Pride Festival which consists of The Manchester Pride Parade, The Big Weekend and The Candlelit Vigil, which takes place over August Bank Holiday.

The Manchester Pride Festival is an award-winning four-day event celebrating LGBT+ life. The event takes place in August, with The Big Weekend running from Friday August 25 to Monday August 28 and the Parade on Saturday, August 26.

Tickets for The Big Weekend are on sale now.

 

 

Gogglebox stars to open Cats Protection’s first shop in Brighton

Gogglebox stars Chris Steed and Stephen Webb will officially open Cats Protection’s first shop in Brighton next month.

The cat-loving duo, who appear on the hit Channel 4 TV show, will be at the store to cut a ribbon and meet shoppers on Wednesday, March 8 between 10.30am and 11.30am.

The store, in Beaconsfield Road, will stock good quality second-hand clothes, toys, books and household items. All proceeds will go to help care for unwanted and abandoned cats.

Chris, whose much-loved cat Ginge died in 2015, said: “Stephen and I love cats and we love Brighton, so we’re really looking forward to coming along to help launch Cats Protection’s new shop.

“Cats give so much back to their owners in terms of companionship, loyalty and support, so I think it’s wonderful that this new shop will enable the local community to raise money to help cats in need, particularly after losing my beloved Ginge a couple of years ago.”

Cats Protection is the UK’s largest cat charity, helping around 500 cats a day – or around 200,000 a year – through a national network of 32 centres and over 250 voluntary-run branches.

Cats Protection Area Retail Manager Mark Verity, said: “We’re really looking forward to welcoming Chris and Stephen to our store for an opening celebration. Brighton is a fantastic cat-loving city and we’re very much looking forward to getting to know the community.

 “There’s already a lot of buzz and excitement around the new shop, with lots of local people wishing us luck. The new shop will have a modern boutique feel which we hope will appeal to lots of shoppers, from discerning dressers to keen book-lovers.”

The new shop, at 70a Beaconsfield Road, will be open Monday to Saturday from 9am until 5pm and on Sundays from 10am until 4pm. Donations should be delivered during shop opening hours.

For more information or to check the items which can be accepted, click here:

Or telephone: 01273 565675.

LETTER TO EDITOR: Silence for Trump!

Looking on the bright side there are many reasons to be cheerful regarding the visit of America’s ‘so called’ newly, duly elected.

President Donald Trump
President Donald Trump

He must be a godsend for every worthwhile British male and female comedian. Not forgetting our highly talented and internationally respected satirists. We the British public could do with a big belly laugh post the Brexit vote.

As preparations are being made to vent our anger at this State Visit no one wants, we have to take on board the situation that has been forced on us.

Rather than do our usual and predictable gathering in our thousands, to line the route to the palace, screaming and shouting various abuses, getting sore throats, bad-tempered and hot under the collar, may I respectfully suggest a different kind of protest all together. SILENCE.

Yes please do gather together in our hundreds of thousands but as soon as Trumps cortège comes in sight all of us turn our backs to the road, our backs to him personally and do not utter a sound. Not a pip squeak.

The massed ranks of the British people in complete SILENCE, with their backs turned to him would unnerve him. He is a creature of the overblown American media.  He thrives and survives on sound.  Any kind of sound, be it hostile or adulation.  It is all oxygen to his over-inflated ego.  It might show the world we still, as a nation, retain our dignity. Despite what Mrs May might do.

Our glorious Queen Elizabeth, has over the decades, seen off many a murderous criminal thug from Eastern Europe and scandalous assorted dictators from the Commonwealth.  She is well able to do what she does best.

After all this is a first, in her long glorious reign. The first time she has hosted a dinner party for international celebrity White Trash.  Keep an eye on the cutlery and condiment sets Ma’am.  When it’s all over she and the family will have a wealth of material for their games of Christmas Charades.

I think our news anchors and journalists have a much more difficult job.  Keeping a straight face when interviewing any of his backing band of Barbie Grannies.  I look aghast at the number of those ‘Old Biddies’ as my mother would have called them.  She never being one to undervalue the proper honorific.

Every one it seems has been liberated from the Palm Springs retirement home for old showgirls. These Lazarenes are game I’ll give them that. These fatal females, the Americanisation of the original French, can hiss and spit up a storm when defending their saviour.  All those years of back stage infighting can finally be put to good use, even in their twilight years.

Each it seems shares the same plastic surgeon and hairdresser. The fright sight. The cascade of acres of luxuriant highlighted blond tresses. Well extensions anyway. Extensions.  Hair sold by some of the poorest women in the world so they can put food on the table. Beautiful hair washed, bleached then stitched into rows so they can be worn by some of the worlds wealthiest, scariest women. Sisterhood writ large on their thin over painted faces. Make up, war paint in their case, exquisitely applied by the same old darling dressing room artist from Las Vegas. Daringly up front gay and put upon in the late 60’s but thoroughly enjoying getting his own back in his late flowering years.

Getting his own back on some of the most selfish, pushy hoofers he ever had the misfortune to work on.  Yes, yes, yes citizens of GB.  Line the route in your hundreds of thousands but keep stchum, very stchum indeed.

Have a good day.

Michael James

International travel conference come to Brighton Centre

VisitBritain, the UK’s national tourist board, will host its flagship annual event ExploreGB in Brighton next week.

The tourism event will take place at the Brighton Centre from March 2-3, 2017 and is estimated to be worth an additional £1m to the local economy.

Teams from the city council’s marketing and conference arm VisitBrighton worked to secure the event for the city, beating off stiff competition from other UK destinations who were also keen to host the valuable event.

ExploreGB offers tourism destinations and businesses the opportunity to meet and do business with key inbound tourism markets from across the globe. More than 400 international buyers from 40 countries will do business with 430 travel industry suppliers from across England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Buyers from Britain’s largest and most valuable inbound visitor markets including the USA, Germany, France, Canada and Australia will be attending. Important growth markets including China, the world’s most valuable outbound market, India, Italy and the Gulf countries will also represented.

The two-day programme includes one-to-one appointments, seminars and workshops hosted by industry experts in the Brighton Centre, and a gala dinner at the Hilton Brighton Metropole Hotel. Delegates will also take part in 3-5 day familiarisation trips at a range of UK destinations, including Brighton where groups will visit a number of VisitBrighton partner restaurants and attractions including Terre a Terre, Riddle and Finns, Silo, The Royal Pavilion and the British Airways i360.

Cllr. Alan Robins
Cllr. Alan Robins

Commenting on VisitBrighton’s successful bid to bring the event to the city, chair of BHCC’s economic, development and culture committee, Alan Robins, said: “ExploreGB is a prominent event in the tourism business calendar, offering an opportunity for UK businesses to meet and boost trade with a significant number of key markets all under one roof.

“This is a great example of what goes on behind the scenes at the council day in day out to support and promote business in the city.  In this case, the VisitBrighton teams have worked hard to secure this event, knowing what great benefit it will bring both economically and as an opportunity to showcase our city offer on an international stage.”

Sally Balcombe
Sally Balcombe

Chief Executive Sally Balcombe, said: “With its vibrant arts and music scene, heritage buildings, boutique shopping and the draw of its lively seaside and famous pier, Brighton is a fantastic destination to showcase the diversity of our tourism offer.

“The hundreds of International buyers and journalists attending ExploreGB will return home in no doubt as to the outstanding facilities and tourism products on offer across Brighton and beyond.”

For more information about VisitBrighton, click here:

 

 

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