We’re really proud to share The Rainbow Project’s Impact Report 2024-25. It reflects a year where, despite growing challenges and increasingly hostile rhetoric, we continued to show up for LGBTQIA+ people across Northern Ireland as a trusted, visible and vital support. Between 2024-25, we’ve reached more people than ever before. From delivering over 1,300 counselling […]
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The ‘Before I Die’ wall is a global public art project that encourages people to reflect on their own mortality, hopes, dreams and goals by completing the sentence: ‘Before I die I want to…’ This will be a safe space for reflection and connection within the LGBTQIA+ community. Reflect something you would like to do,
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“This week’s decision of the UK Supreme Court on the application of the Equality Act 2010, which does not apply in Northern Ireland, has caused a considerable amount of alarm in LGBTQIA+ communities and in particular for trans people and their families. Regardless of the legal implications, which we are working hard to understand, we
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The Rainbow Project’s Policy, Campaigns and Communications Manager, Alexa Moore, described the failure to progress both the Gender Equality Strategy and the LGBTQI+ Strategy as a ‘missed opportunity’ to ensure equality across Government and society in Northern Ireland. She gave evidence on Thursday 13th March alongside a delegation from the Women’s Policy Group, led by
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The Northern Ireland Executive’s newly unveiled Programme for Government risks deepening inequality and leaving LGBTQIA+ communities behind in key policy areas across the board, including addressing homelessness, health inequalities and building social cohesion. “Our Plan: Doing What Matters Most” is the Executive’s shared Programme for Government, agreed and published at the end of February. The
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A coalition of Northern Ireland based LGBTQIA+ charities have criticised the Executive’s decision to ban puberty blockers indefinitely, to not be reviewed until 2027, leaving trans children and young people, and their families, denied their healthcare needs for a further 3 years. Alexa Moore, Policy Campaigns and Communications Manager at the Rainbow Project, said, “We
18:00 Arrival Drinks 19:00 Welcome Address 19.30 Dinner is Served 22:00 Entertainment 01:00 Event Close  Dress Code: Smart, but not formal, dress to impress Saturday 8th March 2025 will see a grand gala dinner hosted at the iconic Titanic Building in Belfast to celebrate a combined century of unwavering support and advocacy from three
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As part of World AIDS Day, which is marked every year on the 1st of December, the Rainbow Project is displaying a collection of AIDS memorial quilts originating in Northern Ireland, likely last exhibited in 1996. The quilts, which formed part of ‘the Names Project’, were part of the world’s largest community folk art project,
Northern Ireland AIDS Memorial Quilts put on Public Display for first time since 1996 Read More »
The Rainbow Project is concerned by a number of elements contained in the Cass Report released this week on care for transgender children and adolescents. We’re currently taking the time to read through it and digest all its implications for care in England and any ramifications it might have across the UK and Ireland. Cass
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World AIDS Day, designated on 1 December every year since 1988, is an international day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection and mourning those who have died of the disease. But unfortunately, the stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV are as big an issue
Stigma and discrimination against people with HIV are as big an issue as ever Read More »
