We also offer the following wellbeing activities:-
- 50+ LGBT+ Peer Support Group
- Fitness sessions
- Mindfulness
- Yoga
Other Organisations and Services
Disclaimer
Below is a list of other organisations and services that we hope will be helpful to you in finding the support you need. Kingston LGBT Forum is not affiliated with any of these organisations, services or resources. We are therefore not able to recommend any of these services or organisations, rather, we hope they will serve as ideas for where you might like to seek support. Please make your own judgement about what might be useful to you before contacting any organisation or using any service or resource.
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- Tel 0300 330 0630: Open 10:00-22:00 every day
- Email chris@switchboard.lgbt
- Website https://switchboard.lgbt/
- Chat (online) via website: Open 10:00-22:00 every day
- The Wolverton Centre at Kingston Hospital has LGBTQ walk-in clinics on Wednesdays from 5 – 7 pm. The Wolverton Centre, Kingston Hospital, Galsworthy Road, Kingston KT2 7QB, tel 020 8974 9331. Link: sexualhealthkingston.co.uk.
- Information: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/hiv-and-aids/
- HIV and sexual health – information and support – Terrence Higgins Trust. For website click here
- GALOP http://www.galop.org.uk/domesticabuse/
- National LGBT+ Domestic Abuse Helpline
- London LGBT Domestic Abuse Partnershi
- Kingston Adult Education – click here
The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and Public Health Kingston.
You can download this information here.
- Alcohol support
- Bone health
- Diabetes support
- Drug and alcohol misuse
- Emotional wellbeing
- Falls prevention
- Cook & Eat
- Breastfeeding drop-in clinics
- Healthy Start
- Heart health
- Fuel Poverty Prevention Service
- Expert Patients Programme
- Mental distress
- NHS health checks
- Physical activity
- Screening
- Sexual health
- Stop smoking support
- Weight management support
The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and the National Health Service.
You can download information here.
- Services for children and young people
- Services for older people
- Costs
- Languages
- Serious mental illnesses
- Crisis
- Self help
- Other support available
- Tips on looking after your mental health
- Addiction Support and Care Agency
- EACH Counselling (for women)
- Rape and Sexual Abuse Support Centre
- Emotional Health Services
- Hillcroft College (for women)
- Homeless Health Link Service
- iCope – Kingston Psychological Therapies Service
- Islamic Resource Centre Kingston
- Kingston Bereavement Service
- Kingston Carers’ Network
- Kingston College
- Kingston Samaritans
- Kingston University
- Kingston Women’s Centre
- Mind in Kingston
- New Malden Counselling Associates
- Refugee Action Kingston
- Relate
- Staywell
- Release YMCA Counselling Service
- The Bisexual Index – support and resources for UK Bisexual activists and community
- Bi Community News
- Bisexuality – some older (but still useful) writing by bisexual activist Jennifer Moore
- Bisexual Underground – London based relaxed, friendly pub meet for bisexuals and their friends
- Bi Coffee London: relaxed coffee meet for bisexuals and friends
- BiCon – the UK’s main bisexual gathering
- BiFest – one day events celebrating bisexuality including at the Kingston Quaker Centre in 2019 and hopefully again in 2021
- Purple Prose: Bisexuality in Britain – a book written for and by bisexual people in the UK
- Achieving for Children Kingston and Richmond (Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and London Borough of Richmond upon Thames) – click here
Regard – national organisation of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender and queer people (LGBTQ) who self-identify as disabled
- Opening Doors London
- Befriending service – email befriending@openingdoorslondon.org.uk or telephone 020 7239 0400. (ODL is running telephone befriending during lockdown.)
- Gendered Intelligence –
a trans-led charity whose mission is to increase understandings of gender diversity
- GIRES (Gender Identity Research and Education Society) – promotes research, campaigns, provides publications, especially in the medical and health care field
- Nonbinary Wiki – wiki dedicated to nonbinary gender identities
- Press for Change – the UK’s leading experts in transgender law; campaigns and provides some legal advice and takes on key test cases
- Twilight People – stories of faith and gender beyond the binary – a landmark project that discovers and celebrates the hidden history of transgender and gender-variant people of faith in the UK past and present