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Our Pride festival is fast approaching and we’re looking for 30 amazing volunteers to help make the day happen and ensure everything runs smoothly.

We appreciate the kindness shown by Warwickshire NEU. It makes a difference. If you are able to donate to Warwickshire Pride, please visit our donate page.

There is an emergency protest tomorrow at 1:15pm outside Shire Hall in Warwick. It is a protest against Warwickshire County Council’s Reform administration trying to ban LGBTQ+ displays and books from Warwickshire’s libraries.

Huge thanks to Royal Leamington Spa Town Council for awarding a grant of £717 to help pay for first aiders at our upcoming Warwickshire Pride festival.

Big thanks to the people at Pixel Toys for hosting a Pride Month cake sale in support of Warwickshire Pride and donating £211 to us. It will help us to continue our vital work across Warwickshire with LGBTQ+ communities.

We’ve had to cancel Rugby Pride due to unreasonable requirements put on the event at short notice by the council and police that we could not afford to fund or resource. It made it impossible to go ahead with the event.

We have received the email, pictured within, that was sent by Reform Warwickshire county councillor Wayne Briggs to the Chairman of Warwickshire County Council.

Warwickshire Pride believes that Councillor Finch’s comments form part of a wider pattern of rhetoric that has targeted transgender people and contributed to hostility towards the wider LGBTQ+ community.

We are pleased to see the Chairman has stood with LGBTQ+ communities and had the flag raised. Thank you.

We appreciate the love and support that was shown by so many people. While there were challenges, love outshines the hate, and we came away from the market grateful for the opportunity to be there in all our rainbow fabulousness.

Big thanks to the Southam in Bloom team and councillors in Southam for being so wonderful and lovely and supportive. Thank you also to Whitnash Town Council for raising a rainbow flag for the start of Pride Month.

Wishing you an extra fabulous Pride month from all of us at Warwickshire Pride.