Our helpline provides thousands of hours of support and advice to thousands of people every year, many who feel like they have nowhere else to turn. The helpline has been running for 45 years, and is staffed by a team of dedicated staff and volunteer operators all of whom receive extensive training and support.
Mermaids has been supporting transgender, nonbinary and gender-diverse children, young people, and their families since 1995.
Today, Mermaids has evolved into one of the UK’s leading LGBTQ+ charities, empowering thousands of people with its secure online communities, local community groups, helpline services, web resources, events and residential weekends.
We also seek to educate and inform wider society on gender identity by helping professionals accommodate and reassure gender-diverse young people.
Speak to a trained member of the Mermaids team. 0808 801 0400 . Monday – Friday; 9am – 9pm
Opening Doors is the only dedicated national charity connecting LGBTQ+ people over 50 with activities, events, support and information. We also provide accredited training to professionals, conduct research and create policy. We work across the UK but retain a focus in London.
Intercom Trust is a community-led charity that aims to build a South West region where people are treated with respect, celebrated, and where vibrant LGBT+ communities live with real equality.
Here are some of the services we offer:
Over the Rainbow is an NHS Initiative for the local Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual (LGBTQIA+) community in Bournemouth, Weymouth and Dorset. We offer information for individuals and their families with issues relating to:
We can offer a counselling service, health services and a sexual health clinic.
LGBTQ Online Support: Our Online Support Live Chat is confidential, non-judgmental and anonymous. It’s an Instant Messenger chat service available via our website, staffed by trained volunteers, which can offer listening and signposting.
We are a social group for trans people and are welcoming to anyone who is on the trans spectrum. Based in Bournemouth, we hold group sessions in social settings for people aged over 18. Come chat and chill with other like-minded people! We are a safe, social and supportive group. Sessions can run in local bars/pubs/restaurants as required and may vary.
A Christian church with a special welcoming and inclusive outreach to LGBT+ people. We offer Sunday worship services as well as small groups, coffee mornings, and other events.
Inclusive Community Church Hannington Road Bournemouth, Dorset BH7 6JT
Welcoming all young gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBT+) people across Dorset since 2001!
We aim to support young people who are or may be LGBT+ and empower them have positive self-esteem, to know they are supported, to have a sense of community and to overcome issues caused or intensified by prejudice in order to facilitate freedom of expression.