LGBT+ Dementia Support  

We Have Support for you

LGBT+ Rainbow Friends. Rainbow Friends is a national Befriending Service which provides 121 support for isolated older LGBT+ Members who need support to live and thrive in the community. We will match you to a trained volunteer befriender who can offer regular phone or digital contact using Zoom, Teams, WhatsApp or similar. If you wish, they can also sign post you onto other services. We offer some face to face activities every year which bring members and volunteers together, e.g. at Pride events. also have a Members Forum where you can talk with other members and befrienders and decide on activities or projects which will help you or develop the Service.

To apply to become a member please email:
hello@sustainblecommunities.uk 
and complete our Membership Registration Form or 
telephone: +447492736679

Volunteer as a Befriender with Rainbow Friends

We are recruiting new volunteers to train to become a befriender with Rainbow Friends. Following initial training, we will match you with a befriendee or member who may live locally or elsewhere in the UK and we agree a schedule and aims for the Rainbow Friendship. Contact is by phone or other digital means. We offer on going supervision support and training to our befrienders as well as regular on line meetings which befrienders are expected to attend .

Befrienders can also become involved in face to face or on line events or projects which we organise for and with Members, and always based on what Members say they want . This effectively brings our Rainbow community together

To find our more about becoming a Volunteer Rainbow Friend , please email:
hello@sustainablecommunities.uk 
and complete our Volunteer Registration Form or
telephone: +447492736679

Dementia & Dementia Carer Support

We have dedicated London-based non-clinical, personalised support for LGBT+ people, especially older individuals who are living with dementia, caring for someone with dementia, experiencing dementia symptoms/memory concerns.
The project recognises that dementia affects people differently.

We intend to offer different levels of personalised support plan based on each person’s communication, confidence, mobility, interests and current needs.

Activities will be optional. Participants will be able to join in, observe, bring someone they trust, take a break or speak privately with a team member.

• small peer-support conversations;
• music and singing;
• support groups (online or in-person)
• painting and creative activities;
• reading and storytelling;
• accessible walking activities;
• individual or small supported activities.

To apply to become a member please email:
hello@sustainblecommunities.uk 
and complete our Membership Registration Form or 
telephone: +447492736679