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OS Barbers raise £410 for Sussex Beacon

George Oakley and Joe Steven from OS Barbers in George Street once again turned over Pride Friday, on August 4 at the salon, to raise money for the Sussex Beacon, the local HIV charity.

George and Joe
George and Joe

For the third year both boys donated their days takings of £410 for every haircut they did to the Sussex Beacon.

The Sussex Beacon provides specialist support and care to people living with HIV a year, offering both inpatient and outpatient services to improve health and promote independence.

Those using the charity’s services may be facing serious HIV related illnesses, dealing with mental health issues or struggling to cope with the side effects of new drug regimes. Recently rated ‘outstanding’ by the independent health regulator, The Sussex Beacon provides first class care and support to those in need.

 

New leaflet about screening programmes for transgender and non-binary people

Public Health England (PHE) have published a new national public information leaflet that explains the NHS population screening programmes for transgender and non-binary people.

The leaflet is required as inequalities can exist if trans individuals:

♦ Do not know which screening programmes they are eligible for
♦ Are not invited for screening because of the gender they are registered as with their GP

PHE have published the leaflet on GOV.UK alongside a PHE screening blog article explaining its purpose and how it was developed.

To read the leaflet online, click here:

Greens angry at new youth service ‘cuts’

Greens councillors on Brighton & Hove City Council call for transparency as administration announce fresh wave of youth service cuts.

Greens protest over Youth Service cuts earlier this year
Greens protest over Youth Service cuts earlier this year

The Green group have condemned the Labour administration for continuing to make cuts to the city’s youth service despite a successful city-wide campaign to save it saw the budget for the work largely restored in February.

Councillor Alex Phillips, Green spokesperson for Children, Young People and Skills has called for greater transparency after information about recent cuts to the service appeared as a small footnote on the internal council information network, the Wave.

Cllr Alex Phillips
Cllr Alex Phillips

Councillor Phillips said:  “At the last full council meeting in July, I directly challenged the local Labour group about the current state of youth services and was told that the youth service information bus would be retained for a further year. Now we learn – from a notice quietly ushered out on an internal council network – that the entire dedicated detached youth work team is to be lost.

“The young people who campaigned to save the youth service repeatedly made clear that access to support where they lived made a huge difference. A few in-house services in the city centre mean little to young people unable to shore up the bus fare in and out-of-town. Detached youth work and services like the youth mobile information bus meant that help and support came to them, where they live, with advice and activities.

“After the Labour Council attempted to axe all council youth work last February, Greens launched a series of successful budget proposals that together with amendments from the Conservatives saw the youth service funding almost entirely reinstated. The disgraceful reality is that despite this, key elements of youth work are still being axed behind the scenes. Getting rid of detached youth work flies in the face of everything we and these young people campaigned to protect.”

Labour have been asked for a response.

Brighton Gin celebrates Brighton Pride with limited edition bottle

Brighton Gin to donated percentage of sales to The Rainbow Fund.

Small batch, super premium Brighton Gin has created just over 400 limited edition bottles of the UK’s favourite gin (as voted for by the public in the 2017 People’s Drinks Awards) – with specially created rainbow labels and pink wax seals to celebrate Brighton Pride, the UK’s biggest Pride festival.

A percentage of the sales from each bottle will be donated to The Rainbow Fund, the Brighton and Hove based grant-giving fund for local LGBT+HIV organisations.

Brash, beautiful and brilliant Brighton Pride 2017, welcomed over 300,000 participants and spectators, from across the world to the city to come together and fundraise, celebrate, campaign and party with Pride.

The Brighton Pride bottles from Brighton Gin, recently voted The People’s Choice Gin in the 2017 People’s Drinks Awards, went on sale at independent shops across the city from Tuesday August 1.

Snap them up from independent shops in Brighton and Hove including Quaff in Hove and Fiveways, Hisbe on London Road, Ten Green Bottles on Jubilee Street or Twenty One Wines.

Founded by five gin-loving Brightonians in 2014, Brighton Gin is made from organic grain spirit, juniper, fresh orange and lime peel, locally grown coriander seed and liver-friendly milk thistle.

Founder, distiller and Out In Brighton presenter Kathy Caton, said: “Brighton Gin was created for good time boys and girls everywhere. We wanted to celebrate the free-thinking, campaigning and hedonistic spirit of Brighton, values which have made the city the obvious setting for the UK’s biggest Pride festival.We’re so proud of that – and want to contribute to the essential work of the Rainbow Fund in supporting the city’s LGBT+ community and voluntary sector”.

Versatile and adaptable, Brighton Gin is particularly delicious as a classic G&T served with a fine tonic and a slice of orange to bring out the flavour of its citrus botanicals. It’s also smooth enough to be served neat over ice and makes the finest of Negronis. Locals often drink it as a unique Brighton Gin Rocktail – with tonic, ice and a chunk of Brighton rock.

For more information about Brighton Gin, click here:

 

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