Rainbow Fund launch Community Consultation Survey to listen to feedback about services on offer to the LGBT/HIV communities they fund in the city. The Rainbow Fund receives donations from the Brighton LGBT communities, raised through events such as Brighton Pride and Brighton Bear Weekend, fundraising by venues, and donations from individuals throughout the year. Those funds…
Brighton Bear Weekend gets off to a great start with a quiz at the Camelford Arms raising £320 for the Rainbow Fund. Two teams tied for first place and after a tie break Sent to Coventry the team from Gscene magazine were declared the winners on the night. The main £300 cash star prize was…
Rumour Has It the monthly LGBT club night at Funfair nightclub on Brighton seafront receive a certificate for the £528.96 they have raised from their monthly parties for the Rainbow Fund. Each month Rumous has it… donates a percentage from the door take to the Rainbow Fund. The next Rumour has it…. will be at Funfair…
Former Lollipop Girl and landlady at the Queens Arms, Barry Nelson, will be celebrating his birthday with a bevy of friends and the cream of Brighton’s entertainers at the Queens Arms on Sunday, January 31 from 5.30pm. Artists appearing will include Miss Jason, Kara Von Park, Mrs Moore, Allan Jay, Christopher Howard, Maisie Trollette, Cassidy Connors, Sally…
Sonny and Nicole from Dr Martens, the iconic footwear brand and retailer handover £570 to Chris Gull the chair of the Rainbow Fund. The money was raised during Pride when staff at the shop sold raffle tickets to win various pairs of unique Dr Martens boots specially designed for the Rainbow Fund raffle. You can…
The Rainbow Fund Awards on Tuesday, September 8 at the Hilton Brighton Metropole Hotel saw more than £78,000 in grants awarded to local LGBT/HIV groups and organisations who deliver effective front line services to LGBT people in the city. The awards were hosted by comedienne and Rainbow Fund Patron, Zoe Lyons who was joined by…
The Autumn Grants Round for The Rainbow Fund is now open, and organisations are invited to submit their grant applications. The Autumn Grants Round is the bigger of the Fund’s two annual grant rounds. Applications are invited from local LGBT and HIV organisations in Brighton and Hove who provide effective front line services to LGBT people in the…
From a conventional Surrey upbringing to global notoriety via “The Naked Civil Servant”, Quentin Crisp was an extraordinary raconteur and wit. Following a UK tour and off-West End season at the St. James Theatre, this much-acclaimed production shows Quentin both in his beloved Chelsea flat as the 1970s dawned, and in his final years…
Rainbow Fund supports small LGBT groups in the Spring Grants Round. In the spring grants round the Rainbow Fund has been able to support a range of LGBT/HIV groups, including three trans* organisations working to build confidence within the local trans* community, two organisations providing frontline services to people with HIV, two projects providing BSL signers…
Bear-Patrol organiser Danny Dwyer and entertainer Jason Sutton, joined 17 friends and Bear Patrol members at Gunwharf Quays in Portsmouth at 8am this morning to abseil down the 560 foot high Spinnaker Tower. THE purpose of the early start was to raise funds for the Brighton based Rainbow Fund, who make grants to LGBT/HIV organisations delivering effective front…