A date for your calendars. On Saturday January 30th, the LGBT General Assembly 2010 (North Buckinghamshire) will be held at the Ridgeway Community Centre in Milton Keynes (map link). The objective is to bring together all those who are interested in the LGBT community in the area.

Whether you organise events or activities, or are interested in attending them, this is the opportunity. The day will consist of:

• Brief presentations by the various organisations as to what they do and offer
• Discussion as to what people would like to see as events
• Discussion on what is the LGBT community itself
• Public viewing of Olivia Humphreys’ film “Late-Comers” about “older” people coming out.

Topics to be covered include support, healthcare, sports, social evenings and more.

Tell us what you do, tell us what you want.

To be kept informed or to mark your interest, please get in contact with Peter Leeson – PeterJLeeson {at} hotmail(.)com or 01908 501426.

If you don’t see the video above then click here to go to the video on the AskMK.tv website.

The video above is a lovely montage of yesterday’s fantastic Celebr8 Diversity Parade in Milton Keynes! (for a full set of pictures see our Facebook page – you don’t need to be a member to see the album). What an amazing, fun and well organised day – congratulations to all involved. Roll on next year!!!

We’ve developed some amazing LGBT awareness training that will appeal to all kinds of people and the profits made from running them help us to fund great services to support local LGBT people!

And now YOU can help us fill the training days and EARN MONEY for doing it! We’ve got places available on courses running from now until March 2010 and we’ll pay you commission to help us fill them.

How to earn up to £20 per booking

It’s really simple!

1) Use the publicity resources on our website and your own contacts, skill and charm to get people to register online for one or more of our training days.

2) Ask them to put your name in the ‘where did you hear about us’ box on the registration form.

3) Email us with the details and we’ll pay you 10% of the fee they pay us.

Depending on the type of organisation they work for, you could earn up to £20 per booking.

Example 1: You get someone from the public sector to book onto a full day session. They pay Q:alliance £120. We pay you £12.

Example 2: You get someone from a private company to book onto a full day session. They pay Q:alliance £175. We pay you £17.50.

Everything you need to get started promoting our training days is available on our website at www.qalliance.org.uk/training or if you have any questions, email us at training {at} qalliance.org(.)uk

This information is available in a poster. It would really help us out if you could print off a copy and display it in appropriate places!

Download the Poster here

I am setting up a new social group for South East Asian women who identify as gay or bisexual in the Milton Keynes and surrounding areas.
The social group will involve activities such as eating out, bowling, badminton, going to the cinema, picnics (weather permitting!) and generally meeting up informally to network with other women. The group will be open to any other ideas that members may have for social networking.  If anyone is interested can they please contact me on email address seaconnections {at} googlemail(.)com

If you want to start up a new group, or promote an existing one – do get in touch with info {at} qalliance.org(.)uk

They’re also hoping to get your views on the LGBT adults part of the forthcoming Celebr8 diversity parade in Milton Keynes, along with your thoughts on their corporate and social responsibilities.

For more details, or to RSVP, please email peter {at} qalliance.org(.)uk

The 2009 Celebr8 parade will take place on World Peace Day, 21 September 2009, celebrating the diversity of our community, past, present and future and looking outwards towards the issues of global poverty. The parade at its core celebrates the seven strands of diversity. Diversity is about ‘difference’ – difference across race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, faith, age and economic circumstance.

It’s about recognising that not all people are the same and that people have different, equally valuable, skills, experience and knowledge to offer. The parade will mark the launch of the entire fringemk Festival 2009 with the Mayor of Milton Keynes opening proceedings, along with Ruth Stone of the MKCVO (Milton Keynes Council of Voluntary Organisation).

The parade will allow groups to celebrate their differences with over 470 groups registered with the MKCVO alone and another 1200 being invited and encouraged to register and participate.

For more information visit the Fringe MK website, or join the Celebr8 group on Facebook.

Also, check out The Parks Trust site for information on some forthcoming FREE events in MK, including an outdoor film festival and World Picnic Day.

Want a cosy new venue to relax, meet or celebrate in MK?

A place where you can eat, drink and just be…

There’s a new group on Facebook where you can share your views on a NEW venue for Milton Keynes. To join the group, click here (you may need to be a Facebook member to view and partake in the group).

In addition, the conversations about starting up new social opportunites for LGBT people in Milton Keynes are still going on at Gay MK.

Now what about Aylesbury? Do you live in, or near, Aylesbury? Are you happy with the social scene? Looking for more to do? Looking to start something up? There’s a Facebook group which is a bit quiet, but could be a good place to start a discussion.

Let us know at info {at} qalliance.org(.)uk if you know of other places on the web or around town where LGBT people in the Aylesbury Vale area meet up, we’d love to help promote them.

A list of LGBT groups that meet in Milton Keynes and Buckinghamshire can be found at www.qalliance.org.uk/information/ – do let us know if we are mising any! ]]> http://www.qalliance.org.uk/places-to-socialise-in-mk-and-aylesbury/feed/ 0 http://www.qalliance.org.uk/local-information-updated/ http://www.qalliance.org.uk/local-information-updated/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 16:25:21 +0000 Admin http://www.qalliance.org.uk/?p=627 We have just updated our Local Information page with details relevant to lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people in Milton Keynes and Buckinghamshire, including links to social groups. If there are any groups we’ve missed, do let us know!

We will be updating this information regularly, so check back here often or sign up here to be notified of updates to the site by email. We also have a very exciting RSS feed if you’re into that sort of thing.

We will be updating this information regularly, so do check back here often or sign up here to be notified of updates to the site by email. Of course, we’re always looking for people to get involved with our current services and to help launch new ones, so if you want to get involved with your local LGBT community email us at volunteer {at} qalliance.org(.)uk.