Celebrating Pride Month at The Forward Trust 

First started in 1970, Pride Month is a month-long awareness campaign to commemorate Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Queer or Questioning or the Community (LGBTQ+) culture and rights – ensuring that more people can become better advocates, allies and supporters. 

In our frontline services, we know that addiction does not discriminate - and neither do we. We're focused on supporting everyone that attends one of our services and we work with the whole person to ensure we can provide a service that works for them. See our list of support services.

Our event schedule includes attendance at Pride Month events – from Hull to Canterbury – among others. 

• 6^th June 
  LGBTQIA+ Wellbeing in the City – The Brink, Liverpool 

• 8^th June 
  Pride March – Canterbury and Thurrock 

• 21st June 
  ‘Pride in our community’ event - HMP Rye Hill 

• 22^nd June 
  Pride Festival - Bury St Edmonds 

• 29^th June 
  Pride march - Hull 

• 10^th August 
  Pride march - Margate 

We have also been able to host online workshops and share useful resources with staff – see The Genderbread Person - poster which provides a quick guide to develop understanding of gender, sex, identity and expression – a great way to start and initiate conversations about LGBTQ+ culture in your community. 

We’re also promoting the excellent ‘Pride and Beyond’ podcasts available for free via the We Create Space website: https://www.wecreatespace.co/pride-and-beyond-podcast 

We will add new photos and event summaries to this page as they roll in – please keep checking back for updates! 

Details about Forward’s Proud Employee Resource Group (ERG) can be found on our EDI page.

How are you celebrating Pride month? Let us know what you are doing to mark the occasion; communications@forwardtrust.org.uk