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This International Women’s Day we attended the Fast Forward 15 Bingo Ball Fundraiser with fabulous drag prince, Alfie Ordinary, at ExCeL London. Fast Forward 15 is a not-for-profit mentoring scheme for women working in events, hospitality and travel. As we also offer peer mentoring at MindOut, the collaboration was a perfect fit. A highlight … Read more
MindOut is planning a Self-Advocacy workshop for Trans people on trans healthcare. The workshop will be held on Zoom on Thursday 24th March, 2.30 – 4pm. It will be led by Lou Thomas (they/them), MindOut’s Trans Advocate. It’s open to trans service users and volunteers. The workshop will cover speaking up for yourself, accessing services … Read more
MindOut is very excited that Lama Rod Owens, Buddhist minister, is coming to Brighton for an event on ‘Queer Resiliency in Times of Change’. Lama Rod is a US Buddhist teacher, bestselling author, activist, and authorized Lama in the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism. He will be in Brighton for a day of reflection and … Read more
Emily Ballantyne (she/her) has been appointed as Interim CEO at MindOut. After 22 years as founder CEO Helen Jones is stepping down on 17th February. Emily will be working with the Trustees to recruit a new permanent CEO. She has worked in the community and voluntary sector for 25 years as a volunteer, specialist advice … Read more
MindOut is delighted to announce that our out-going founder CEO, Helen Jones, will receive an MBE in the New Years Honours. She is being honoured for her contribution to LGBTQ mental health over the 22 years since she started MindOut. ‘When I heard that I was offered an MBE I considered whether or not to … Read more
For our winter fundraising campaign this year we tested out The Big Give Christmas Challenge. As the largest match funding campaign in the UK, we gave our supporters the opportunity to double their donation so they could have twice the impact on MindOut’s counselling service. We never expected to hit our £4000 target within 24 … Read more
Welcome to MindOut’s LGBTQ (+) glossary. There will always be evolving terminology around sexual and gender identities and simple explanations can be useful. Here’s our guide to help us all be better allies. Sexual Orientation Glossary + (plus) The ‘+’ at the end of LGBTQ+ is used to acknowledge the many terms to describe those that have a minority sexual orientation and/or gender identity, as not all of these identities are specified in the LGBTQ initialism, which stands for lesbian, … Read more
We LOVE The Body Shop! And luckily for us, they seem to love us too. MindOut has worked with TBS since 2019 when we were chosen as one of their charities of the year. Since then they have continued to impress us with their commitment to LGBTQ mental health and they are a shining example … Read more
As the days draw shorter, the sun gets low in the sky and the weather turns cold, our pace of life can change, and with it our outlook. Many of us will have had this sense of ‘the winter blues.’ For some people, the effects can be really heavy and we’d consider them to have … Read more
This year MindOut has been selected to participate in the Big Give Christmas Challenge 2021, which is the UK’s largest match funding campaign. We’ve set the target of raising £4K for our counselling services and all donations will be match funded for 7 days from 12pm on the 30th November, #GivingTuesday. One donation, twice the … Read more