Rita on LBC Radio, 21st August 2008

August 22, 2008 in LGBT domestic violence

Every week LBC Radio runs a segment on an organisation which uses the Workspace Group’s offices. On the 21st August, Broken Rainbow was lucky enough to be that organisation, and Rita Hirani, Consultant Trainer for Broken Rainbow, was interviewed (not entirely sure why they promoted poor Rita to CEO, but she had 3 mins [...]

Lack of Refuge Space for LGBT people experiencing Domestic Violence

August 19, 2008 in LGBT domestic violence

Broken Rainbow today highlighted the serious issue of the lack of refuge spaces available for lesbian, gay, bisexual and particularly trans victims of domestic violence.
Few refuges have adequate provisions in place to deal with LGBT people, and this leads to service users experiencing homophobia, transphobia, or in the worse case, can allow their abuser to [...]

Where can we go if nowhere will take us?

August 15, 2008 in LGBT domestic violence
Tags: lgbt dv, trans

We are still concerned by the lack of refuge space for trans people experiencing domestic violence and abuse. It seems the trans community really is getting a raw deal with a lot of things at the moment. No only was there toiletgate at Pride (not one, but two incidents) but now we are again hearing [...]

WRC Policy Forum

August 15, 2008 in LGBT domestic violence

We were extremely pleased to be asked back as a member of the Women’s Resource Centre Policy Forum. If you do not know, the Women’s Recource Centre…well, let me take it off of their site because they sure tell it a lot better than I could:
The Women’s Resource Centre supports women’s organisations to be more [...]

We signed up to…

August 12, 2008 in Uncategorized

…everyclick.
Like an edition of Lost, I hear you all cry, “what?”
Everyclick is a search engine just like google. However, every time you search the charity whose search box you use, gets…0.1p, or something.
Yes, well, we’re not going to get to buy a LGBT refuge next week with the clicks - but it would be nice if you could use it once a week? [...]

West Oxfordshire community safety partnership…

August 11, 2008 in LGBT domestic violence

…is the latest authority to launch the sanctuary scheme, meaning lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people experiencing domestic violence and abuse, can apply to receive funds to make their houses more secure from their abuser.
Jodie Foster made them famous and now over 171 local authorities in England have followed suit. Panic rooms for victims of [...]

Margate – sunny Devon – rain!

August 1, 2008 in LGBT domestic violence

This week ended with a trip to sunny Margate where we shared a stall at Thanet Pride with our colleagues from Unison South East LGBT Committee. We are doing 4 Prides altogether with Unison over the summer – Oxford, Reading and of course the biggy next week at Brighton.