Posted on: on Jan 31, 2012
Friday February 3rd
Tom Scanlon and Becky Woodiwiss, both from Public Health at the City Council are coming along at lunch time.
They’d benefit from chatting about the lunch club and how it helps, so please if you’re able – say hello, and let them know!
THT are coming along for their monthly visit.
FridayFebruary 10th
Tanya from LGBT HIP – The LGBT Health & Involvement Project is coming along for lunch, and will be available to talk about their work.
HIP is a project which aims to consult about a whole range of issues of interest to LGBT people in Brighton and Hove.
They’re currently undertaking an online anonymous survey around mental health. This needs to be completed very soon. If you’d like to take part – here’s the link https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LGBT-HIP-Suicide
Jason Saw from Mind OUT is also joining us for lunch.
After lunch at 3pm, Kate from the Sussex Beacon is around to talk at an open meeting about setting up a peer led art group at the Beacon. No previous experience or brush skills required!
Sunday February 19th
One of our volunteers, Juan, is running in the Half Marathon for Lunch Positive. Anyone who would like to come along and cheer him on, please do! There’ll be a Lunch Positive get together somewhere on the route with hot drinks and cakes provided. We’ll make arrangements for this on the notice board at the lunch club.
Go Juan!!!
From Friday February 24th
We’ll be setting up a notice board where you can post things you’re up to, social events etc. The hope is that members can use this to meet up, get out and about, make new friends and so on.
Also – take a look at the ‘DVD Share’ poster. Thanks to recent donations of DVD’s we hope you’ll be able to share these, add DVDs to the library if you have any spare; and enjoy some good films at home.
Posted on: on Jan 17, 2012
As part of the 2011 World AIDS Day commemorations, with the help of members recollections and other website sources we started compiling a global timeline and a local history of HIV & AIDS.
You can view those here HIV & AIDS Global Timeline and HIV & AIDS – Local History
We’re keen to expand the local history of HIV in Brighton & Hove; so if you have any recollections, experiences, or participation at events or within community services, please get in touch and we’ll aim to include those.
To take part in this please e mail timeline@lunchpositive.org
Posted on: on Jan 12, 2012
From January 13th – Pathways to Health start this year’s ear acupuncture clinics for members at Dorset Gardens, on Fridays – from 10.30 am. Treatment is free, though donations are welcome.
January 27th - From 2.30 pm at the lunch club. ‘Comments & Ideas’ – Everyone is invited to get together and raise any questions, comments & ideas about the lunch club. This will be really informal, so please join in if you are able, your views really matter.
Posted on: on Dec 22, 2011
Best wishes from all of us at Lunch Positive.
We are open during the Christmas and New Year period. On Friday 23rd December 12 noon – 2pm, and on Friday December 30th 12 noon – 3pm as usual.
Posted on: on Oct 29, 2011
November 18th – we’ll be closed on this Friday as the church is holding its’ annual bazaar.
Instead we’ll be open on Wednesday 16th, usual times.
World AIDS Day support – November
Members coming along for lunch are invited to give a few written lines (or more if you’d like) about how HIV has affected you, or your community. These will be anonymous, and displayed in the upstairs foyer at the Positive Hope service of remembrance and solidarity at Dorset Gardens on World AIDS Day. Please support this by sharing your thoughts if you can – a few words make a great difference to helping the wider community understand HIV and its’ impact.
December 1st – Help needed. Lunch Positive is street collecting in St James’ Street on December 1st. If you can give up an hour or two to do this alongside a volunteer, we’d really value the help. Please let us know.
December 10th – Evening fun ‘Quiz’ event with Outdoor Positive & Peer Action
We’ll be helping and providing a buffet at an evening quiz night with our good friends from Outdoor Positive & Peer Action.
Tickets are available at the Lunch Club and from these groups.
December 2nd – Community Lunch
We’ll be having our usual Friday lunch, and to coincide with World AIDS Day we’ll be inviting people from other HIV community and support groups. All the volunteers will be having a break from the usual duties to spend opening time together with members and visitors over opening hours.
There is no charge for lunch on this day – it will be ‘donations only’.
Lunch for this day is supported by Brighton & Hove City Council LGBT Workers Forum.
December 16th – MEMBERS CHRISTMAS MEAL. Open 11.30 – 15.30
Our annual Christmas Lunch. Bigger and better than before!
We’ll send out a separate mail out and flyers will be at the lunch club closer to the time.
December 23rd – We’ll be open on this day from 11 am – 2pm, hoping anyone who would like to come along for some company before Christmas arrives will join us.
We’ll be providing food parcels for members in need over the Christmas period.
Posted on: on Oct 28, 2011
Folow this link to see what is happening locally on World AIDS Day – December 1st http://www.facebook.com/worldAIDSdayBH
Lunch Positive are at the AIDS Memorial throughout the day, providing refreshments and helping let people know what is happening.
We’re also helping with refreshments at the ‘Positive Hope’ service of remembrance and solidarity at Dorset Gardens Methodist Church from 8pm until 9pm.
