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We had a great DVD sent to us by the wonderful Barry Lewis the other week: an amazing lesbian domestic violence DVD. The guys shot it on a very small budget – mainly because everyone donated their time and experience for free! It’s very good quality with a great main actress who is very watchable, [...]

31% said yes to experiencing domestic violence.

Win an iPod shuffle… AND help us out?
Is it possible, you ask yourselves? Yes, it is!
Our online youth survey has just over a week to go so all hands on deck; if you are aged 18-25 and have not taken it then please spare 5 minutes to meander over to our survey page:
Youth Survey
Not [...]

Recruiting…
Paid Sessional Helpline Workers £14 p/hour (self employed) for Broken Rainbow National LGBT Domestic Violence Helpline
Broken Rainbow LGBT Domestic Violence Service (UK) runs the only national LGBT DV Helpline offering support to all LGBT people, their family, friends, and to professionals around the issue of domestic violence.
We are recruiting Helpline Sessional staff to provide support [...]

Broken Rainbow News
Currently working or living in London? Are you experiencing any form of domestic violence from an intimate partner or family member?
What is Domestic Violence?
We define domestic violence as:
“any incident of threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between adults who are, or have been, intimate partners or family members, regardless of gender or [...]

Broken Rainbow LGBT Domestic Violence Service (UK) is the UK charity for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender people experiencing domestic violence.
P/T Helpline Operations Co-ordinator
£22,693 – 26,739 (inc ILW)
(up to 21hrs p/week pro rata – review pending)
We need a dynamic individual to co-ordinate the smooth running and ongoing development of our national LGBT domestic violence helpline. [...]

Hello all.
The hunt for volunteers for our joint stall with UNISON at Reading, Margate, Oxford, Brighton and Thanet; and our Broken Rainbow London stall, went so very well that we thought, “why don’t we see if we can get more people together for some of the other UK pride events?”
We have a fantastic Pride coordinator, [...]

We are looking for volunteers for some of the Pride events we are going to. Now, at these events we will be sharing stalls with UNISON South Eastern Region, so it will be good fun and you’ll get to meet some great people (at pride, from the other stalls – but espeically from ours because [...]

Do you deal with domestic violence in your job? Does your company/charity/service provider?
We’d love to hear from you in our super short, super important survey on service provider’s knowledge of LGBT DV.
Five questions. 5 minutes.
http://www.questionpro.com/akira/TakeSurvey?id=1228807

We are doing a couple of workshops. We picked this event to do because it’s in a great location and it’s very affordable for people to attend.  Go to our site for more details if needed, but it’s one not to miss: www.broken-rainbow.org.uk
Friday 27th March 2009 – Oxford Belfry Hotel, Thame
Conference Fees
Statutory / private [...]