New Consultation — LGB and Trans People over 50

We've just put up a new consultation survey for LGB or/and Trans people who are over 50, and it's going to be really useful. Log in to LGBT Voices In Action, make your voice heard about the issues that might affect you, and help influence services in your area. (Services which we all might need one day...!)

CORNWALL readers 50+ — URGENT CALL TO ACTION! We're working very positively with Volunteer Cornwall, who are seriously keen to get the views of as many Cornwall residents as possible who are LGBT and 50+ before Sunday 16 March. That's because we're supporting a massive Big Lottery proposal for Cornwall: Volunteer Cornwall are drawing up the bid and they're working to a Big Lottery deadline.

(Needless to say Volunteer Cornwall will get only an anonymised report from us: Intercom will never release identifiable personal information from any Voices In Action consultation.)

SO — if you live in Cornwall, and you're 50 or more — get moving, visit the consultation site, and Make Your Voice Heard in time for it to strengthen the Lottery proposal. You have till Sunday 16 March!

Any questions about the Lottery proposal, contact Michael at Intercom (Michael@intercomtrust.org.uk) or Jayne at Volunteer Cornwall. If it's successful it will bring in between £3m and £5m to improve life for older people in Cornwall — including us. But they need your input to make it successful!

We are gobsmacked to discover that supporters have nominated Intercom for this year's National Diversity Awards, in the category of LGBT Community Organisation. We are (in the immortal, slightly surreal, words of Sir Terry Pratchett) "as pleased as a cat full of sixpences". Thank you!

And we've found people had already started voting for us even before we were officially notified that we'd been nominated! Thank you all!

For more details, see the top story in our February newsletter. Anyone who feels like voting for the Trust, please follow the link below!

https://nominate.nationaldiversityawards.co.uk/nominate/endorse/6545

The Big Community Survey has closed, and we are beginning to analyse the results. They are already turning out to be fascinating! We're putting some in February's newsletter (see below), but we're going to be releasing much much more from this fascinating source of data over the next few weeks. Keep your eye on our LGBT Collective news website, www.lgbtcollective.org.uk.

So many of you completed this survey! Many thanks from us all!

Michael and Paul on behalf of all the Intercom team

Intercom's News bulletins can be downloaded from our Bulletins page. (The February 2014 Bulletin has up. The March newsletter will follow in the middle of March.)

However, we are now trying to get breaking news stories onto our South West LGBT Collective website (www.lgbtcollective.org.uk), so keep an eye on that—especially the front page, and the "Local LGBT News" tab, and the "What's On" tab.

Our community website www.lgbtcollective.org.uk. has a day-by-day What's On page covering the entire South West peninsula. And it has contact details for many local community groups and activities. If you're not already using it (it's getting a lot of hits), have a look!

Intercom is a lesbian gay bisexual and trans community resource in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset, providing help against homophobic and transphobic prejudice, crime and discrimination (including bullying, harassment, abuse, attacks, and threatening behaviour), helping to develop the LGBT communities, providing professional training and consultancy, and working in partnership with local government, the police, health, etc.