Below are groups or organisations that provide advice or safe spaces to connect:

Support for Camden staff

Rainbow Camden on Viva Engage (previously Yammer) is a space for staff that self-define as LGBTQ+, and for allies, to celebrate identities, discuss and learn, and organise events.

Support and services for staff and residents

• forum+ supports victims of homophobic, biphobic and transphobic hate crime and discrimination. They can support with discussing your options with a case worker and reporting hate crimes to the police. 
• Elop provides a range of social, and emotional support services, including counselling and young people's services.
• Galop provides support and advice for LGBTQ+ people who have experience abuse and violence.
• Stonewall Housing provides support for LGBTQ+ people who are facing or experiencing homelessness, or living in an unsafe home.
• Switchboard is the UK's national LGBTQ+ Support Line.
• LGBT Foundation a national charity with LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing at the heart of everything we do. 
• Silver Pride and the Cactus Club host a number of social groups for LGBTQ+ people aged 50 and over, both within and beyond Camden.
• The Gay Professional Network provides opportunities and resources for safe networking and professional connection across a variety of sectors and businesses. 
• East London LGBT Seniors host a range of social events for older LGBTQ+ people, their partners and young volunteer supporters. (Note: events are not hosted in Camden, but are open to residents of the wider East London area).

Resources and further learning

• Tonic Housing has published a major study, entitled 'Precarious Lives', that explores financial and material hardship among LGBTQ+ people in London aged 50 and above.
• The Furzedown Project has launched ‘Ageing on Our Own Terms’, a new booklet 
  for health and care commissioners, providers, and regulators, designed to assist in 
  meeting the needs and aspirations of LGBTQ+ people as they age.
• The University of York and University of Strathclyde are conducting a survey around the support needs of older LGBTQ+ Londoners (data collection will close at the end of May 2025).
• IncludeAge has a variety of resources looking at how to improve the inclusion of middle to older aged people (40+) with Learning Disabilities and/or people who identify as LGBTQ+, through examining positive experiences of inclusion in physical places and online spaces. 
• The LGBT Foundation run a Training Academy, providing a variety of trainings aimed at businesses and organisations wanting to take their support for LGBTQ+ residents, communities and colleagues to the next level. 
• Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) have a produced a repository of knowledge about older LGBTQ+ people's lives, needs and their experiences with social care.
• Why you should think twice before you talk about the LGBT 'community' - an article exploring the importance of language  when talking about LGBTQ+ people.
• Skills for Care have produced a LGBTQ+ learning framework to help staff in Adult Social Care to work affirmatively, inclusively and effectively with individuals from gender and sexually diverse communities.
• Skills for Care have also produced a framework for knowledge, skills and values for working affirmatively with LGBTQ+ people in later life.
  
• King's College London and community partners have developed an ABC of LGBTQ+ inclusive communication guide for health and social care professionals.
  
• Royal Holloway University of London and West London Social Work Teaching Partnership have produced a resource to support practice educators and ASYE (Assessed and Supported Year of Employment) assessors to respond to LGBTQ+ issues arising during student placements or the ASYE.
• Webinar recording focussed on support work with LGBTQ+ older adults: LGBTQ+ older adults in social care - YouTube.
• University of Kent, Creating Inclusive Residential Care for LGBTQ+ Elders (CIRCLE), a research project aiming to understand how providers of residential care for older people can improve their LGBTQ+ inclusive care offer.
• University of Birmingham, LOASCA study: LGBTQ+ Older Adult Social Care Assessment study -  addressing significant knowledge gaps about LGBTQ+ older (60+) people’s adult social care service experiences in England. 
• SCIE - Older LGBTQ+ people and social care 
• SAND Matters - SAND's journey towards making Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin a better place for LGBT+ people to age
• SAND's Covenant - a campaign of pledges made by groups and organisations to embrace a culture of inclusion.
• 70 Years through LGBT+ Eyes  - a film designed to prompt thoughts about people’s lives and experiences which may be different from our own.
• SAND - Inclusion Matters, Organisations working towards making Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin a more inclusive place for older and old LGBTQ+ people.