Why should you become a Room Sponsor with YMCA DownsLink Group? Can you imagine what it would have been like to navigate your teenage years without a supportive family? Or, worse, that your home wasn’t a …
Become a Room Sponsor and change a life. Forever Read More »
Samantha Burton, West Sussex Chaplain, writes about her experience volunteering at the very first Crawley Pride Festival. On the weekend of 28-29 August, Crawley hosted it’s very first Pride festival, a weekend of fun, colour, funfair rides, …
Spirit And Breathe… Such a simple, unconscious, and yet life-giving action that we perform awake and asleep. But do you remember to breathe? I mean, really breathe, consciously and deeply. Our body is great at giving …
Faith and Queerness: a discussion between colleagues. PRIDE month has given our organisation an opportunity to explore the lived experiences of both our LGBTQU+ staff and the young people we work with. One of the issues …
Faith and queerness: a discussion around LBGTQU+ identities and religion Read More »
This article is intended to give an overview of the difference between sex, gender and sexual orientation, for those who want to know more, but maybe feel embarrassed to ask, or, are confused by the different …
Glossary of gender identity and sexuality for beginners Read More »
We are delighted to have secured the support of local comedian, campaigner and marathon runner extraordinaire Eddie Izzard for our YMCA DownsLink Challenge fundraising event. She joins Olympic gold medallist Sally Gunnell OBE in encouraging people …
Eddie Izzard and Sally Gunnell OBE, Support YMCA DownsLink Challenge Read More »
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