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Paul Hook “thrilled” to be joining Brighton & Hove LGBT Switchboard as charity’s new CEO

Graham Robson March 26, 2024

Brighton & Hove LGBT Switchboard, the charity that has provided services for LGBTQ+ people across Sussex for almost 50 years, has announced the appointment of its new chief executive. Paul Hook will take up the post on Tuesday, April 2 following four years at the helm of Asylum Matters, a charity which works to secure […]

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New app package keeps treasured LGBTQ+ memories alive for people living with dementia

Graham Robson February 27, 2024

From Pride, drag acts and LGBTQ+ role models, to trans heroes, queer art and film and the HIV/Aids epidemic, the content of the LGBTQ+ Memories app package is designed to encourage people living with dementia, and their loved ones, to reminisce and have conversations about their lives, the past and the present.

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Brighton & Hove LGBTQ+ Switchboard announces LGBTQ+ Housing Conference

Graham Robson May 10, 2022

Brighton & Hove LGBTQ+ Switchboard, in partnership with the Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender, is hosting a solution focused, community-led conference on Thursday, June 30 to provide a springboard for provision of safe LGBTQ+ affirmative housing

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Thank you for listening….

Besi Besemar May 28, 2018

After 33 years of dedicated service, Switchboard’s longest serving volunteer hangs up her telephone headset. Jenny Bennett, Brighton and Hove LGBT Switchboard’s longest serving volunteer has called time on her listening career this month as she moves onto pastures new up North.

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New Look for Switchboard

Besi Besemar May 27, 2018

Brighton and Hove LGBT Switchboard launch their new brand and logo this month to give clarity to how they support local LGBT+ people. Brighton and Hove LGBT Switchboard is the city’s longest established LGBT+ organisation providing a listening ear to LGBT+ people in Brighton and Hove since 1975.

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LETTER TO EDITOR: Silver Service from the LGBT Community Safety Forum

February 20, 2018

Switchboard would like to thank volunteers from the LGBT Community Safety Forum for their silver service at our Cream Tea on Monday, February 19. Volunteers from the LGBT Community Safety Forum lovingly prepared and served guests attending the Switchboard Cream Tea cucumber sandwiches, scones with cream and jam.

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Switchboard opens ‘The Rainbow Cafe’ today

Besi Besemar February 15, 2018

Continuing their work with hard to reach and seldom heard of groups, Brighton & Hove LGBT Switchboard are to open an LGBT+ dementia café today. With an £11,725 grant awarded by the Rainbow Fund, the Rainbow Café is an exciting new initiative for LGBT+ people living with dementia or memory loss and their friends, families and carers.

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New play raises awareness of LGBT+ people with dementia

Besi Besemar January 24, 2018

Award winning play The Purple List… a gay dementia venture by Libby Pearson will be performed by Ian Baxter on Thursday, February 15 at the opening of the Rainbow Cafe. The performance takes place at Brooke Mead, (the new extra care housing accommodation to be opened by Brighton & Hove City Council) in Albion Street, Brighton, from 11am- 2pm .

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