Service Category: BAME and Migrant Services
Migrants Forum
We offer support and advice through a variety of means including running funded events and projects that will educate participants, from BAME and traditional communities, and encourage them to challenge negative perceptions and policies that affect them while also gaining skills and confidence to make change happen.
The Rainbow Project
The Rainbow Project are a a support organisation for LGBTQIA+ individuals or anyone questioning or struggling with their gender and/or sexual identity.
Our services include peer social/support groups; health & wellbeing services; Rainbow Youth (ages 12-25); co-cultural counselling; hate crime, violence and domestic abuse advocacy; BAME, migrant, refugee & asylum seeker advocacy; our Macmillan Cancer Champion service and our sexual health service which offers rapid HIV & syphilis testing (with limited gonorrhoea testing) as well as advise on safer sex practices.
All our services are non-judgmental, confidential and free to access, you can be referred into our service or contact us directly to self-refer.
Our Sexual Health services are limited to people aged 18+ and is offered to any LGBTQIA+ individual or anyone who is in high distress about their HIV and/or syphilis status.
Waterside Women’s Centre
The Waterside Women’s Centre was set up as a safe space for women to meet, attend workshops and classes, and to find out about the wide range of support and services that are available locally. We welcome everyone and we are also keen to hear ideas to ensure our services are responsive to women of all ages.
The Centre has an excellent on-site creche which enables mums and carers of babies and young children to participate in our programmes or to have a couple of hours to themselves.
The Centre will be 30 years old this year (2024) and we have received many positive testimonies from women who have availed of our services over the years, including some who described the Centre as a ‘lifeline’.