Lancashire LGBT

For Individuals

There are lots of opportunities for LGBT people in Lancashire to find support and contact with like-minded people.

Check out our Peer & Social Support listings for an up to date list of groups around Lancashire, and our News page for upcoming events and meetings.

LGBT people can experience additional challenges, difficulties and sometimes conflicts that are not experienced by heterosexual and cisgender (non-trans) people in the wider community.

For some LGBT people isolation, homophobia and hate crime are still big issues and this can have a huge impact on confidence, mental health and the quality of their lives.

DO YOU YOURSELF NEED SUPPORT FROM LANCASHIRE LGBT?  

You can now make a self-referral online. https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/self_refer/

Also, you can report hate crime online to Lancashire Police here or you can report anonymously to True Vision here

For Professionals

Are you a professional looking to refer one of your adult service users to Lancashire LGBT for support?   

If so, please complete our online Third Party Referral Form

As well as our Training Packages and Lancashire LGBT Quality Mark we work with a range of organisations who have asked for our help in better understanding the needs of LGBT people when accessing their services as well as the needs of their LGBT employees.

Since 2012, we’ve worked with organisations from the Voluntary and Public sectors and some work has resulted in partnership working opportunities. Requests have been varied: from support in putting together an LGBT staff network; integrating an ethos of LGBT equality into service delivery; how to support a staff member or service user undergoing gender transitiion or help integrating the needs of LGBT people in planning for strategy or policy development. We have also worked with some primary and secondary schools, advising on best practice for supporting children and young people going through gender transition. 

“Developing a partnership agreement [with Lancashire LGBT] has given us access to a range of knowledge and expertise which we previously lacked. It also sends an important message to our LGBT services users that we are developing more work around LGBT issues.”  Healthwatch Blackburn with Darwen

“For us, working with Lancashire LGBT has helped us to significantly raise our profile and improve our work with LGBT young people in the Blackpool area.”  UR Potential

WE CURRENTLY WORK WITH:

  • Leeds Gender Identity Service  (as part of our Partnership, we host their satellite clinic as well as their Gender Outreach Worker)
  • Lancashire Strategic Hate Crime and Cohesion Group
  • Lancashire County Council Joint Strategic Needs Assessment team
  • Public Health Blackburn with Darwen, Public Health Blackpool, Public Health Lancashire
  • Lancashire Constabulary
  • Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
  • UR Potential
  • CAMHS (Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service)
  • Lancashire & South Cumbria Suicide Prevention Oversight group

Case Study: East Lancs Hospice (article by Lynn Holden, Clinical Services Development Facilitator at the hospice, about our work with them)