Lunch Positive, the local HIV charity that provides a weekly HIV lunch club hosted a Community Café at Brighton Pride, on Saturday, August 5. This was the sixth year Lunch Positive have provided the café, which was situated in the Community Village on Preston Park.
Lunch Positive, the HIV charity that provides a weekly lunch club for people with HIV will celebrate its 8th birthday on Friday June 9 from the Lunch Club at Dorset Gardens Methodist Church. All members are invited to attend, including those who go along regularly and those who go less frequently or haven’t been for a while.
I wanted to write and thank Billie Lewis and the volunteers from the Brighton & Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum, for everything they did to help us with the Soul Safari days at the B Right On LGBT festival. They did an absolutely amazing job with everything, and the space they created for us to work was great. It gave so many groups, including The Village MCC, the opportunity to feel that there was a bridge between the LGBT+ community and ourselves.
Lunch Positive, the charity that provides a weekly HIV Lunch Club will be staging a ‘Big Community Lunch’ during LGBT+ History month on Friday February 17 in the Phil Starr Pavilion on New Steine Gardens.
Lunch Positive the HIV lunch club attracted 90 service users, their entire team of 26 volunteers, trustees, supporters and friends of the charity to their Christmas Lunch on Friday, December 16 at Dorset Gardens Methodist Church.
A Community Works’ representative will help to ensure that the HIV community is involved in plans for the city to work towards becoming the first UK city to reduce HIV to zero. The Council’s Health & Wellbeing Board have agreed to work towards the goal of zero new HIV infections, zero HIV related deaths, and zero HIV stigma in Brighton and Hove.
In April, eighteen volunteers from Lunch Positive, the weekly lunch club for people with HIV, received training in understanding substance misuse.
Lunch Positive has started a new initiative, building on its previous emergency food parcels given to people with HIV in financial crisis.
Brighton Bear Weekend team up with Lunch Positive to provide food at this years Bear-B-Que in Dorset Gardens on June 18 between 1-5pm – as part of this years Brighton Bear Weekend Festival of events.
Volunteers from Lunch Positive, the weekly HIV lunch club who provide a healthy meal, community and social space for people with HIV shared a Christmas meal at The A Bar on Monday, December 7 to celebrate the achievements of the Lunch Club in 2015.
