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...!)

And our consultation on people's experiences of workplaces, benefits etc. is still open, so if you haven't already made your voice hear, go for it! That one is of course for everyone, all ages.

We're still working on analysing the results of the Big Community Survey, which so many of you filled in (MANY thanks!) The results will be going up bit by bit on our LGBT Communities website (www.lgbtcollective.org.uk).

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

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.