The Brighton Rainbow Fund grants made during the Autumn 2015/16 funding round:
Accessibility Matters – £1,974 toward core costs of running the project which delivers access to Pride for disabled people.
Allsorts Youth Project – £5,000 for their work with young trans people at Transformers.
BluePrint 22 Youth Group – £10,098 to support ‘Work it Out’ a project supporting 60 young people who have experienced barriers to employment, enterprise and education because of their sexuality or gender.
Brighton GEMS – £2,720 to enable them to add a second daytime meeting on a Monday to their monthly Friday evening meetings.
FTMB – £1,508 to help double their meetings to two a month.
LGBT Community Safety Forum – £12,514 for core costs, a self-defence course and a new Outreach programme.
Lunch Positive – £10,066 towards the cost of providing a healthy meal each Friday for people with HIV.
MindOut – £4,889 to support ‘Out of the Blue’ a suicide prevention and peer support group and a further weekly social peer support group for all MindOut service users.
Older and Out – £5,010 to help continue their once a month social club for older LGBT+people.
Peer Action – £6,493 towards core costs and continuing to provide therapies and yoga sessions for people with HIV.
RadioReverb – £2,000 to continue supporting the ‘HIV Happy Hour’ weekly radio show dealing with issues surrounding HIV.
Rainbow Chorus – £6,850 towards core funding and to develop the work of RC+ which provides an opportunity for people who just want to sing and don’t want to perform in concerts.
Trans Can Sport – £5,000 to help transgender and gender variant people have access to sport.
