Resources: LGBTQIA+

akt

akt supports LGBTQIA+ young people in the uk experiencing homelessness or living in hostile environments to find safe homes, employment, education or training, and to celebrate their identities in order to improve their life outcomes.

Bristol Drugs Project

Bristol Drugs Project provide free and confidential support to people who are looking for help with their own alcohol and drug use, and the people who care for and about them. Services include support groups, drop-ins, harm reduction, and a dedicated helpline. Specific and targeted support is available for children and young people, students, older people, women, and the LGBTQIA+ community. A specific service is available for recent drug and alcohol-related bereavements.

Creative Youth Network – Proud to Be

Proud To Be is an LGBTQ+ youth club, open to young people who identify as LGBTQ+, including questioning and allies. It’s a safe place to meet new people and be yourself, ran by experienced youth workers. Young people can get involved in different activities (crafts, cooking, games, trips, social action), try new things and have a say about what they want to do in the group.

 

Details:

Where: The Station, Silver Street, BS1 2AG

When: Every other Monday 4:30 – 6:15 pm, starting 17th June.

Ages: 11-19

FFLAG

FFLAG is a national voluntary organisation and charity dedicated to supporting families and their LGBTQIA+ loved ones. An FFLAG group meets in Bristol to bring together carers and parents of LGBTQIA+ young people. carers

Freedom

Freedom is a gender and sexuality social action project from OTR Bristol & South Glos. The Freedom Youth project provides social, informative, and safe supportive group sessions to young people aged 13-19, and the Freedom project provides a support, advice, and social opportunities for young people aged 19-25. All sessions take place online.

Galop

Galop are a LGBTQIA+ anti-abuse charity, providing support to LGBTQIA+ people who have experienced abuse and violence. They provide helplines, advocacy, online support communities, and dedicated services for LGBTQIA+ children and young people.

Gay West

Gay west is a social and support group for LGBTQIA+ people in Bath, Bristol, and surrounding areas.

Intercom Trust

Intercom Trust provide support to LGBTQIA+ people across the South West of England. They offer a dedicated South West helpline, and specific services for people in Devon, Cornwall, and Dorset.

Mermaids

Mermaids supports transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse youth and their families, up to their 20th birthday, and offers webchat support to gender-diverse students up to the age of 25.

Mindline Trans+

Mindline Trans+ is a UK-wide confidential emotional support and signposting helpline for people who identify as transgender, non-binary, or otherwise gender-diverse and their families and friends. The service is provided by Mind in Somerset, and is staffed by listeners with lived experience of being trans+.

OTR Bristol & South Glos

OTR is a mental health social movement by and for young people aged 11 – 25 living in Bristol and South Gloucestershire. Projects include social groups and workshops, talking therapies, and focused support for LGBTQIA+ and BAME young people.

Pink Therapy

Pink Therapy is an online directory of LGBTQIA+ affirmative therapists. Search “Avon” to see therapists in the local area. Please note that this is a directory of private therapists and Bristol Mind does not endorse any individual private therapist.

Prism

Prism is Bristol’s free LGBTQIA+ alcohol and drug service, operated by BDP. They provide information, advice, and support.

Safe Space Support Groups

Bristol charity Changes hold four peer support groups which are categorised as closed safe spaces because they are only open to specific members – Women’s, Men’s, Women of Colour, and LGBTQIA+ online meetings. These groups are open to anybody identifying as part of the community that the group serves.