LGBT+ Off the Record Bath & NES

It's the Summer holidays (or at least really, nearly!) Here's the plan for sessions for space over the next few months so you know when we're open or closed and what events we have on! Any questions drop us a DM.

Next week's SPACE session looks slightly different. It's holiday time and a lot less people are around so join us for a chilled film night 5pm until 7pm, Wednesday 24th July.
DM us with any questions ✉

LGBTQ+ Youth Workers, Volunteers and Young People from the youth group SPACE have marched in Bristol Pride Parade today!

OTR's LGBTQ+ Team members Harriet, Connor and Oti were awarded the prestigious 'equalistar' award for running LGBTQ+ wellbeing groups at Chew Valley School over the last 5 weeks, we have our last session next week! We've had a great time so far meeting and supporting young people at if your school would like to benefit from 6 week wellbeing program for LGBTQ+ students and allies please get in touch with the team via email [email protected]

For those of you who are wanting to attend our trip to Bristol pride, please ensure you fill in and return your consent forms ASAP

Also there is a mistake on the trip info sheet we are meeting at Bath bus station NOT bath train station.

This week at SPACE we are celebrating and learning about Japanese culture and have a series of Japanese themed activities for young people to get involved in. Come along, join in and have some fun.

Massive shout out and thanks to Bath office community who have chosen and specifically the LGBTQ+ project for their Pride Month donation. We've been wanting to buy some more sensory items for our Space and Space to be groups and has made this possible. We have a number of neurodivergent group members who really enjoy sensory items, quiet space and soft lighting. Looking forward to making this a reality.

This week at SPACE we are joined by who are coming to talk to Young People about issues around drugs and alcohol. We will also be preparing for Pride by making banners, t-shirts and placards, as well as continuing our recent Dungeons and Dragons campaign. Come along and get involved!

For next weeks session (Wednesday the 12th of June) we are going to spend the evening enjoying the outdoors in a lovely park. We will be chill and doing outdoor activities.
The session will be at the usual time and we will meet at the usual venue and then all walk to the park together.
If you would like to come please DM us for more details and the consent form (this is needed for you to attend), alternatively you could contact one of the youth workers from SPACE for details and consent form.

For tonight's session at SPACE, we are running different sporting activities outdoors and a new D&D campaign indoors! We will also have the usual activities available! Come down, check it out and most importantly, have some fun!

A fabulous upcoming free Youth Pride event for LGBTQ+ young people ages between 11 - 19 years. If you are free on Saturday 6th July from 11am - 5pm make sure you check this out as it's going to be great!

The event is designed by and for LGBTQ+ young people, with Allies welcome.

If you have any questions about the event then please contact or

Tonight at SPACE we are playing some board games, if you have any you want to play then please feel free to bring them along!

🥳BIG THANKS & WELL DONE PRIDE PLANNERS 🥳
Even our wonderful mascot Oti is joining in with bowling! The LGBTQ+ team are taking 8 fabulous young people bowling tonight, this is to say a BIG thank you to them for working so hard to organise and run BANES Youth Pride Last month. These young people met fortnightly for 6 months, to plan this included chairing meetings, writing funding bids, designing posters, contacting venues, risk assessing and running workshops on the day!

We will be creating a new youth pride committee over the summer, watch this space!

👚 🧢 📢 SPACE ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 👗 👖

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Bring along your pre-loved clothes to swap with each other at Space next week! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

👗 👖Free, fun way to upcycle your wardrobe! No fast fashion, and option to try gender affirming clothes or new styles and colours! We can't wait to see you then! 👚 🧢

We are looking to put together a playlist for our SPACE group, please send us any suggestions and we will add them as long as they are appropriate!

*Trigger warning* mention of mental health and statistics related to su***de.

*Reposted with updated QR code and link*

One of the Young People who attends SPACE has recently started a petition with the aim of increasing funding to CAMHS, our local child and adolescent mental health service. CAMHS is such a vital resource for young people in BaNES so if you have a spare minute we would really appreciate you taking a second and signing this petition.

Follow the QR code or the link below.

https://bit.ly/3xU0a5I?r=qr

We're relaxing with a film night at Space this evening while we recover from last weekends BaNES Youth Pride event. Young people chose to watch Disney's Coco 🎬🎥

Image description: young people sit with their backs to the camera as they watch a film on the TV.

What a success! We had 30 young people celebrating Youth Pride in BANES today! Here's the team of staff, visitors and young volunteers who were still smiling at the end of the day! We had crafts, bake sale, drag performance, face painting and more! It was brilliant.
Swipe for us being silly 😋

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️We can't wait for youth pride on Saturday 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Our LGBTQ+ youth workers Jack and Harriet and our AWESOME Pride planning committee had their final planning meeting last night before Space. You will need to register to come along, but good news there's still time to sign up to the event which is happening this Saturday 1-4pm.👆 👆 **sign up link in bio** 👆 👆

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ONE WEEK TO GO until BaNES Youth Pride event, and we're super excited! 🥳

The event has been planned and organised by young people and we couldn't be more proud of them and all their hard work. ☺️

Please share and encourage young people to sign up and come along to the event- it's free! Sign up via the QR code, link in bio, or using this link: https://forms.office.com/e/3PHBHgF7yz

Any questions please email [email protected]

Unfortunately we have had to cancel this evenings SPACE session (20.03.24). We will however be back as normal next week. See you then.

We are running our LGBTQ+ training session again in April. This is aimed at professionals working with young people in BANES. This session covers LGBTQ+ terminology, experiences of young people and how you can support young LGBTQ+ people you work with.

Sign-up via eventbrite, link in bio.

Any questions DM or email, [email protected]

ONE YEAR AGO young people from OTR's Youth Forum ran Banes's first ever Youth Pride event! NEXT MONTH is BANES Youth Pride 2024 organised by young people from LGBTQ+ Space youth group - we're super excited!! 😄🎉
If you're a young person aged 13-21 (up to 25 with SEND), and live, work, or study in Bath and North East Somerset, complete our registration form to attend (link in bio). The event is open to young people who are LGBTQ+, questioning, and allies. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[Image description:
A picture of young people and OTR staff at the 2023 youth pride event. Two lines of people look at the camera with various pride flags in the background.]

Unfortunately the next SPACE session (21st of February) is cancelled. We will be back the following week so we will see you then!

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🎉Exciting Announcement!🎉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
In 2 months we will be hosting a BaNES Youth Pride!

This event has been planned and organised by young people and we couldn't be more proud of them and all their hard work.
Please share and encourage young people to sign up and come along to the event! Sign up via the QR code or this link: https://forms.office.com/e/3PHBHgF7yz

We will post more information about the line up and what to expect as we get closer to the event!
Any questions please email [email protected]

Did someone say WAFFLES?! 🧇 We had a busy evening at Space LGBTQ+ youth group this week. We made waffles with waffle maker. A visitor came to teach us BSL and about the D/deaf and hard of hearing community and intersection with the LGBTQ+ community. We also lit candles to mark and reflect on the theme of "Fragility of Freedom". 🕯️

[The first image shows an open waffle make with two waffles inside and one waffle on a plate. The second image is a waffle being topped with strawberry and blueberries. The third image shows a tray of t-light candles, some have been lit.]

Just a reminder it is our last session of the year tomorrow. Come and join us for a nice relaxed cosy session.

Don't forget we are NOT at our usual venue tomorrow. We will be running the session from OTRs office in Bath.

We will return to our normal venue in the new year.

We are looking to develop our session plans in the new year and would like some suggestions from Young People on what they would like from us.

From activities and visitors to day trips. We are open to suggestions.

Your voices are important to us and we want to hear what you have to say.

If you have 5 minutes please fill out this quick survey. Link bellow.

https://forms.office.com/e/dSkZ4VWPep?origin=lprLink

Or scan the bar code on slide 2.

Just a reminder we are going Ice Skating this week. If you are not coming Ice Skating then remember there will be NO normal SPACE session this week.

If you want to come and haven't completed a consent form and given it to us then please do this before tomorrow.

Hope to see you all there!

To ensure your voice is heard, please submit your response before the closing date.

To complete the feedback form either scan the QR code or visit the link below.

https://forms.office.com/e/w3AWrMrvq9