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At last year’s Warwickshire Pride festival, many of you will be aware that we had some trouble on site that led to the Police attending and making arrests. The nature of the incident was transphobia, aggression, and comments and gestures of a sexual nature towards members of our team.

This year’s festival takes place on 22nd August in its usual location of the Pump Room Gardens.

We have communicated to local Girlguiding and WI that we will not be permitting them to be part of Warwickshire Pride until their organisations reverse the decision to ban trans women and girls.

Thanks to a grant from Warwickshire County Council’s councillor grant fund, we will be running an LGBTQ+ community engagement event in Alcester.

We’re recruiting two youth workers to help run our LGBTQ+ youth service and volunteers to help run Golden Queers, our new group for LGBTQ+ people aged 50+, that is coming soon.

Big thanks to the LGBT+ Fund’s Collective Nurture Fund for awarding us a grant of £1,000 to help support our work with LGBTQ+ people seeking asylum who have been placed in Warwickshire.

Thanks to a grant from the Norton Foundation, we can continue hiring a room for the next 12 months for our LGBTQ+ youth group in Leamington.

Thanks to funding support from the Baron Davenport’s Charity, we will soon be starting a regular group for older LGBTQ+ people.

Big thanks to everyone who attended our vigil last night for Trans Day of Remembrance.

The donation will be used to provide support to LGBTQ+ people seeking asylum who have been placed in Warwickshire.

Are you passionate about empowering queer youth to thrive in life? We’re recruiting a youth worker to help run our LGBTQ+ youth service.

Thank you to Warwick District Council for once again allowing us use of the Pump Room Gardens in Leamington Spa for the festival. Stall bookings and performer applications will open in January.