Switchboard - National LGBTQ+ Support Line

The World AIDS Day RED RUN returns to Victoria Park, East London for its 14th year on the 23rd of November, 2024! ❤️ The RED RUN is an incredible opportunity to celebrate progress, honour those lives lost and take action. You can sign up to run/walk/roll/sashay on behalf of Switchboard and make a difference in the lives of those affected by HIV. This is a fully accessible event, so please don't feel you don’t have to run to participate, you can also choose to walk and roll, or however you'd like to move through the course. Sign up today: redrun.org.uk #redrunuk #worldaidsday #takeactionlaceup

Come join our team Switchboard - National LGBTQ+ Support Line!! 🌈 We have three exciting roles available, including a Communications Lead, who will work closely with me. ✨ This is a fantastic time to become part of our staff as we celebrate Switchboard's 50th year. We are a small but passionate team dedicated to supporting the LGBTQIA+ communities, ensuring that everyone has someone to turn to when they need it most. If you're passionate, driven, and want a job that makes a real difference, please apply. If this role is not for you *PLEASE SHARE* to help amplify 🫶 For more info about the Comms Lead role and to apply, click here: https://lnkd.in/ezCfjpaa

So excited to share this news! 🌟 We're expanding the team at Switchboard with three new key roles in our 50th year. Full details in the post below. In the near future, we'll be crafting and executing a new three-year plan as our current one wraps up. Now is the perfect moment to become a part of our team. Our mission is to serve our community, a duty that is more crucial now than in the last 25 years. Please share with your networks.👍🏻😊🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ #lgbtqia #CommunityService #pride24

We’re Growing! Join the Switchboard Team! 🌈 We are thrilled to announce that Switchboard is expanding our staff team with three exciting new roles! If you are passionate about supporting the LGBTQIA+ communities across the UK, this is your chance to join an organisation dedicated to making a real difference. At Switchboard, our volunteers provide vital support and resources to those in need. Now, we’re looking for dedicated individuals to join our staff and help drive our mission forward. 📢 Current Opportunities: Head of Operations: https://buff.ly/3Wh7diz Volunteer Training Lead: https://buff.ly/3WhVTCV Communications Lead: https://buff.ly/3LjkHnD If you're looking for an opportunity to contribute to Switchboard's important work, we’d love to hear from you! #Hiring #LGBTQIAJobs #JoinOurTeam #SwitchboardJobs #Careers #LGBTJobs

Today Switchboard publishes our annual Listen Up! Report, which celebrates 50 years of our service and provides crucial insights into the LGBTQIA+ community based on nearly 15,000 conversations in 2023. In this special 50th anniversary edition of Listen Up! you'll journey through our community’s incredible milestones, hear firsthand from our amazing volunteers past and present about what’s evolved (and what’s stayed the same) over the past 50 years, and discover the latest insights and data on the topics that matter most to those who reached out to us for support and information last year. We hope that these insights will provide anyone who makes decisions on behalf of our community— politicians, community leaders, LGBTQIA+ organisations and voters— a real, honest account of what the LGBTQIA+ communities in the UK are exploring, worried about, seeking to understand and fighting for. Read the full report here https://buff.ly/3xHzEwy

50 years of Switchboard has changed many lives (it's also changed mine) and at Pride in London, all the planning of our team came together (what a team!). It was the first big outing of our new branding and I think we can say with confidence it's an absolute banger of a brand. Huge kudos to our Head of Communications and Fundraising Allison Tash Montgomery for leading the brand refresh and its implementation and to the team Nice and Serious for working with us to develop our new identity. And also thanks to Pride in London for allowing me 10 minutes on the main stage at Trafalgar Square to address the thousands present about the work of Switchboard - National LGBTQ+ Support Line and the continued and growing need for our service. Certainly the largest crowd I've spoken to, and thank you to all that we're present for listening.

What an incredible day it was at Pride in London marching to celebrate Switchboard's 50th Birthday and remind people they are not alone! If the last 50 years have taught us anything, it’s that we survive and thrive together ❤️ #Switchboard50 📸: @emil.lombardo

Sunday - Thursday. Pride talks galore including three events in one day on Thursday that took me from sunny Burton on Trent at lunch to a sweltering Soho in the evening with some of the Switchboard team, via an event in Holborn. Pride is a hectic month, but it's also an incredible opportunity to educate. This month one of the key messages I have been keen to express is that two things can be true at the same times. It's true that wider acceptance of our community in society has come on leaps and bounds since Switchboard began in 1974. All of these events would have been unimaginable then. That is progress. It's also true that we are now in the most regressive period for our community since the 2000's began. The divisive misinformation that has been poured on the trans community is having real-world consequences and we see this, every day in the calls to Switchboard. Across the world there is increased pressure on the rights of LGBTQIA+ people with many countries heading to the polls this year, the rights of our community have been placed firmly on the table in multiple countries. Pride is still needed, it's still relevant. What is needed now more than ever before is active allieship. We didn't have the levels of allieship in 1974 we have now, but it's wasted if it's not active. Here are just two things you can do. 1. Allieship when we are not in the room, it's easy to like and share and attend a meeting/ presentation and we thank you for doing that. But stand up for us when we are not in the room, that's when it matters most. 2. If you like or share an article. Please feel free to add your own thoughts to that post. It has more weight when you put your thoughts there. Huge thanks to Dean Piggott Liam Boyle Adelle Barker Claire Bowers, MA (she/her) Ciaran Corrigan the team at Ugg and the Broadwick Soho for your support of Switchboard - National LGBTQ+ Support Line at your events this last week. Oh, and the golf picture. That's the fabulous @out2golf UK group I am happy to be a part of. On Sunday we held our first Pride Golf Day in partnership with American Golf thanks to Scott Taylor for all your support in helping make this happen.

As part of our Pride activities this month, it was wonderful to host Stephanie Fuller, CEO of Switchboard - National LGBTQ+ Support Line at the agency this morning! 🙌 Introduced by our MD, Claire Bowers, MA (she/her), Stephanie spoke to us about the organisation's story and incredible 50-year journey. She also shared insights from Switchboard's upcoming ListenUp! Report and what this tells us about the LGBTQ+ community and the issues they’re facing in the UK today.   #BrandBuilding #AdCampaigns #CreativeIdeas #AdProduction #ContentCreation #AdCreative #BrandStorytelling #DigitalMarketing #CreativeAgency #AdvertisingAgency #Pride #Switchboard

Switchboard volunteers have been busy attending pride events all across the UK! 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ Last week we were at Pride Cymru, Edinburgh Pride, Pride Picnic and Pride at HMP Dovegate Prison. We love getting to meet so many of you, share with folks about our service and give out *FREE* pronoun badges. If you see us at a pride event near you, make sure to come by and say hello 👋