25 or under?
Would you like your voice to be heard?
Would you be prepared to talk about the experiences you’ve had?

FILL IN AN ONLINE SURVEY FOR A CHANCE TO WIN £50!!!

Solutions are conducting some research in association with Q:alliance and could really do with your input. Results from this survey will help improve the services young LGBT people get from a variety of agencies and help us all to get a better understanding of what life is like for young LGBT people in the city.

Complete our short online survey to be entered into a prize draw for a chance to win £50 of CMK shopping vouchers.

http://www.survey.gabba.net/people_mk_survey
OR
http://tinyurl.com/YoungLGBT

PLEASE DOWNLOAD THIS POSTER AND DISPLAY IT IN APPROPRIATE PLACES TO HELP SPREAD THE WORD

Many organisations are interested in the LGBT community. Who is offering what? What is out there? How can you participate in what already exists?

The objective is to bring together all those who are interested in the LGBT community in the area and facilitate communication. If you are interested in the LGBT community or in finding out what there is; whether you are lesbian, gay, bi- or trans, or whether you are interested, concerned or related to someone who is, come and join us for the day.

The day will include presentations by over twenty organisations that are organising or offering services, events or activities to the LGBT community.

During the day, you will have the opportunity to circulate, listen to the presentations which you believe may be of interest to you, and meet people.

Of particular interest will be a debate with questions and answers between local parliamentary candidates from the three main national parties and a projection of Olivia Humphreys “Latecomers” about older people coming out.

For more information, please contact PeterJLeeson {at} hotmail(.)com

This meeting is provided free of charge to all participants, no financial assistance to the costs of the day can be provided to the groups making presentations. It is recommended that participants bring a packed lunch. Coffee and tea will be available on site; doughnuts will be on sale for £1.00 each. Contributions towards the cost of organising are welcome.

Public Transport:

Free Rainbow Bus to pickup participants from  The Point, CMK at 9:30am.

Public Transport: MK Metro bus 7A from City Centre to Dulverton Drive.

Over the next few weeks theres a wide range of events, including social opportunities, walking groups, HIV Quicktesting, pub nights, counselling, meals out, the LGBT General Assembly (which is going to be HUGE – click here for details), International Day Against Homophobia in Football and a fantastic event looking at the life of Alan Turing at Bletchley Park in honour of LGBT History Month – check the calendar for details. If you have, or know of, an event that should be listed here, please email us at website {at} qalliance.org(.)uk.

Please note that try to provide accurate listings, but always get in contact with the event organiser to double check. Not all social groups are listed on the calendar, for a full list of groups that we know of in the area click here. Unless otherwise noted, the events are not run by Q:alliance.

In addition to the events listed, Pink Punters, the local LGBT club, is open Thurs-Sun from 9pm. For more details on Pink Punters visit www.pinkpunters.com.

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.

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

How To Deal With Homophobic Abuse

Want to learn how to help?

Q:alliance is holding a support training session on Wednesday 9th July from 7:00pm to 9:00pm at the David Baxter Centre.

The training session is will be fun and informal. It is for anyone who wants to be volunteer for online support, answering phones at Q or even being involved with our outreach work. It will involve listening skills workshops, telephone answering methods and learning about outreach.

So come along on Wednesday 9th July and to the 2nd session on Wednesday 16 July at 7:00pm

***NEWSFLASH***

Q:youth is moving to a new day and a new home !!!

Our new home is at The Spot Youth Cafe @ The Point

Now every Wednesday from 7.30pm-10pm