The following letter has been submitted by organisations across the LGBT+ Voluntary and Community Sector to our new Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer.
Dear Prime Minister
On behalf of organisations across the LGBT+ Voluntary and Community Sector, we would like to offer you a warm welcome into your new role as Prime Minister. At a time of national renewal, particularly when parts of our communities have been under attack for some time, we are keen to re-establish productive and collaborative relationships to ensure equality and safety across our LGBT+ communities, across the UK.
LGBT+ Consortium is the umbrella body for LGBT+ Voluntary and Community Organisations in the UK, with over 600 members, and we have been partnering with organisations across the sector to collaborate, cooperate and bring a diverse and intersectional range of LGBT+ organisations together in a consistent way.
Organisations across the LGBT+ sector are ready to engage with our new Government, and we look forward to meeting with you and your teams across Government Departments to discuss where policy impacts on LGBT+ people and communities.
We are ready to offer insight, data, evidence, and the realities of lived experience around the priorities for our communities. This is a time to reframe how our communities are talked about, and how we are worked with, particularly after years of misinformation and division. We want to work together with an inclusive approach, ensuring every LGBT+ person can feel safe, is treated equitably and can fully participate in helping society thrive.
There are a range of policy areas, including health, justice, migration, safety, education, global leadership and civil society where we believe Central Government can contribute positively to LGBT+ policy.
Within these areas of focus, organisations across LGBT+ Civil Society have cost-effective solutions ready to implement. We believe relatively small investment could be disproportionately impactful, positively contributing to outcomes-focussed and compassionate solutions to the inequalities and threats our diverse communities face.
We would welcome the opportunity to bring together the thought-leaders and those directly affected by policy decisions across these areas of focus and look forward to broad engagement with you and your team in the coming months and years.
Yours sincerely
Paul Roberts OBEChief Executive OfficerOn behalf of…
Ade John, Founder & Lead Organiser, GaySocial
Aderonke Apata, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, African Rainbow Family
Alec Scott Rook, Founder, TMSA-UK (Trans Masculine Support & Advice UK)
Alex Charilaou, Co-Chair, Labour for Trans Rights
Alex Farrow, Chief Executive, Kaleidoscope Trust
Alex Feis-Bryce, CEO, Diversity Role Models
Andi Herring, CEO, LCR Pride Foundation
Andrea Brookes, Organiser, Proud To Be Trans In West Berkshire
Andy Hunt, CEO, Intercom Trust
Andy Train, Chair, Pride in Hull
Angela West, Director, QueerBee CIC
Antonia Lines, COO, Come Play With Me CIC
Aubrey Crawley, CEO, West London Queer Project
Avril Clark, CEO, Distinction Partner Support
Ben Kernighan, Interim Chief Executive, Galop
Ben Whur, Managing Director (Interim), Stonewall
Billi Jean, Deputy CEO, Allsorts Youth Project
Bobbi Pickard, Chief Executive, Trans in the City
Cat Burton, Chair of Trustees, Gender Identity Research & Education Society
Cat Hurst-McGahey, Chair, LGBT+ Northern Social Group
Cecilia Righini, Founder + Creative Director, Studio Lutalica
Charlotte Emily Skardon, Organiser, Tavistock LGBTQIA+ Social Group
Chay Brown, Director of Operations, TransActual
Chloe He, Director, Sapphic Bison
Christopher Gull, Chair of Trustees, The Brighton Rainbow Fund
Christos Bitzis-Politis, Club Secretary & Lead Welfare Officer, London Frontrunners
Claire Ebrey, Founder, Pride in Leadership CIC
Daniel Tomlinson-Gray, Co-founder and Director, LGBTed
Danielle St James, Chief Executive, Not A Phase
Dara Addams, Founder / Lead Organiser, Pluto MCR
Dr Alexander Rhys, Chair, It Gets Better UK
Dr Carl Austin-Behan OBE DL, Greater Manchester LGBTQ+ CommunityAmbassador, Greater Manchester Pride Network
Dr Paul Martin OBE, Chief Executive, LGBT Foundation
Dr Rebecca Don Kennedy, CEO, Equality Network, Scotland
Drew Dalton, CEO, ReportOUT
Ellis Beardsmore, Co-CEO, Pride Outside CIC
Emily Harley, Chair, LGBT+ Lit Fest
Finn Warman, Artistic Director / Chief Executive, Andro and Eve
Graham Reese, CEO, Newbury Pride
Grey Roberts, Co-Founder, TNBorguk
Heather Paterson, Chief Executive Officer, SAYiT
Helen Walsh, CEO, Space Youth Project
Ian Howley, Chief Executive, LGBT HERO
Ian Wallace, Director, Gaydio
J T Riggs, Director, Spectrum Inclusion
Jack Chapman, Chair, Navigate Brighton
Jacob Stokoe, Managing Director, Transparent Change
James Henry Glennon, Policy Director, Pride UK Training and Consultancy
Jamie Lowe, Managing Director, Trans Support Hub CIC
Jason Kattenhorn, Editor-In-Chief, Sassify Zine
Jay Crawford, Chair of Trustees, Sparkle - The National Transgender Charity
Jay Stewart, CEO, Gendered Intelligence
Jayne Bloggs, Transiness admin, Transiness
Jayne Ozanne, Director, Ozanne Foundation
Jean-Francis Dor, Chairman, Gay Professional Network & Gay Business Association
Jen Yockney MBE, Convenor, BiPhoria
Jordan Trigg, Senior Data Analyst, Beyond Reflections and Pride Action North
Karen Skipper, CEO, Spectra
Kate MacKenzie, Lead Volunteer, TranSanctuary
Kate O'Donnell, Artistic Director, Trans Creative
Katy Jon Went, Founder, GenderAgenda
Kelly Walker-Reed, Chief Executive Officer, Wolverhampton LGBT+
Kieran Bohan, Director, Open Table Network
Kirsty Northam, Communications Team, Windsor and Eton Pride
Kuljit Singh, Project Led - The Open Minds Project, The Open Minds Project – LGBTQ+ South Asians
Laila El-Metoui, CEO and Founder, Pride in Education
Laura Mackay, CEO, Just Like Us
Lauren Stoner, Chief Executive, Mermaids
Leila Zadeh, Executive Director, Rainbow Migration
Lewis Turner, Chief Executive, Lancashire LGBT
Lisa Snowdon-Carr, Chief Exec, 2BU Somerset
Louie Stafford, Managing Director, Learnest CIC / Our House Wakefield
Luca Nasciuti, Community Trustee, Hidayah LGBTQIA+
Lucie Brooke, Director, FREE2B
Lucy & Avril Clark, Founders, Trans Radio UK, TRUK United FC & TRUK Listens
Lynne Nicholls, Chair, Firstbrick Housing
Maari Nastari, CEO, Star Support
Mack Mclean, CIC Director, Rainbow Bedfordshire Events CIC
Mark Fletcher, Chief Executive Officer, Manchester Pride
Mark Healey, Founder / CEO, 17-24-30 National Hate Crime Awareness Week
Mark Kelvin, CEO, LGBT Health and Wellbeing
Matt Humberstone, Founder, Plus Importance Project
Matt Mahmood-Ogston, CEO, Naz and Matt Foundation
Matt Taylor-Roberts, Founder and Managing Director, Proud 2 b Parents
Matthew Daykin, Chairperson, Scottish Ace Network
Matthew Kenworthy Gomes, Chief Exec, Cornwall Pride CIO
Maurice Greenham, Chair, North Midlands LGBT Older Peoples Group
Max Price, CEO, Proud2Be CIC
Monty Moncrieff MBE, Chief Executive, London Friend
Mr Oscar Sharples, Director, Transilience CIC
Ms Lilly Newton, Group Leader, Oasis
Naomi Bennett, CEO & Founder, Lesflicks Ltd
Nicholas John Barlow, Hub Coordinator, Wolverhampton LGBT+
Nick Lewis, Director, Umbrella Cymru
Niranjan Kamatkar, CEO and Artistic Director, Wise Thoughts
Osman Mohammed, Community Outreach Coordinator, HIDAYAH LGBT
Patricia Curtis, Chair, TransPALS
Paul Gary Ryder, Manager, LGBT Sparkle Social Group
Peter Flockhart, Dance teacher, The Cactus Club
Pip Gardner, Chief Executive, The Kite Trust
Professor Emeritus Sue Sanders, CEO, Schools OUT
Rebecca Sharples, Director, Transilience CIC
Reverend Jide Macaulay, Founder & CEO, House of Rainbow CIC
Richard Euston, CEO, Chester Pride
Richard Stevens, Chairperson, Pride in Gloucestershire
Roberta Francis, Volunteer, Tags Swimming
Ruby Almeida, Chairperson, LGBT+ Catholics Westminster Pastoral Council
Rupert Abbott, Executive Director, GiveOut
Sahhara Iris, President/ Executive Producer, Miss Trans Global Organisation
Sand Owsnett, Chair, Highland Pride SCIO
Sarah Furley, Chair, FFLAG
Sarah Maslen, CEO and Founder, Undivided Training and Consultancy
Sarah Savage, CEO, Trans Pride Brighton
Sarah Taylor, CEO, Proud Wellness CIC
Scott Cuthbertson, Director, The Rainbow Project
Sebastian Rocca, Founder and CEO, Micro Rainbow CIC
Shaun Dellenty, LGBT Advocate & Educator, Dellenty Consultancy/Inclusion For All
Simon Shaw, Chief Executive, Redbridge Rainbow Community
Steph Keeble, Director, Birmingham LGBT
Steph Richards, CEO, TransLucentOrgUK
Stephanie Fuller, Chief Executive Officer, Switchboard - The National LGBTQIA+ Support Line
Stephen Williamson, Executive Director, Cara-Friend
Stephen A Ireland, Founder, Pride in Surrey
Stephenie Robinson, Lead Creative Wellbeing, Oasis Resource Centre
Steve Harris, Chairman, Windsor and Eton Pride
Steven McIntyre, Chief Executive Officer, Stonewall Housing
Stewart O'Callaghan, CEO, OUTpatients
Sue Jones, Head of Operations, Ditch the Label
Summer Jones, President, Warwick Pride
Susie Cuthill, CEO, The Proud Trust
Teresa Sharpe, Chief Executive, elop: LGBT+ Mental Health & Wellbeing
Thomas Empson, Chief Executive Officer, The OutHouse
Tina Carnally, Director, Forward CIC
Tony Ereira, CEO, Come Play With Me CIC
Tony Openshaw, Co-ordinator, Out In The City
Tor Docherty, Chief Executive, New Family Social
Tris Reid-Smith, CEO, Pride Wide
Zoe Grant, Charity Manager, Breakout Youth
Zoe McIntee, Chair, Coventry Trans Pride
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