LGBTQ+ Venue Forum

Safer Sounds has been commissioned by the Greater London Authority (GLA) to manage the LGBTQ+ Venue Forum for 2020/21.

During this time Safer Sounds will be consulting on the structure of the group and format of meetings - facilitating LGBTQ+ venues to create an independant organisation that represents their views and needs.

Safer Sounds will

  • Facilitate meetings of the LGBTQ+ Venues Forum

  • Provide relevant administrative support (minutes of meetings etc)

  • Provide advice and information to venues

  • Create resources to support venues e.g. fact sheets and checklists 

  • Conduct regular outreach work with venues to stay abreast of current issues 

  • Provide briefings and events (online and in person [post-lockdown])

  • Provide briefings and advice to the GLA

  • Manage and increase the number of signatories to the LGBTQ+ Venues Charter

  • Regularly communicate with LGBTQ+ Venues and promote the work that the forum does

For more information please email safersounds@saferbusiness.org.uk

LGBTQ+ nightlife venues

As part of his Cultural Infrastructure Plan The Mayor has committed to providing an annual audit of LGBTQ+ venues. 

This year the number of LGBTQ+ venues in the capital remains stable in 2017/18 after 62% fall over the past decade.

For more information you can visit:

https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/arts-and-culture/lgbtq-nightlife-venues