Nottingham and Notts Lesbian and Gay Switchboard

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Switchboard has provided training for the following:

Victim Support
North Notts LGB Development Agency
New College Nottingham
The University of Nottingham Dept. of Social Work
Nottingham CVS
Rushcliffe CVS
Nottinghamshire Police
West Notts College
Ashfield Homes
Nottingham Trent University Helpline
The University of Nottingham LGBT Society
Nottingham Social Services
Nottingham Education Department
Breakout
Portland College

Switchboard can offer training or presentations on the following issues:

LGB awareness
Discrimination and the laws affecting LGB people
Local and national LGB History
Developing good practice in the workplace

Switchboard's resources (some available for loan, some for purchase, some free) include:

A book describing Switchboard's history set in the context of local and national developments since the 1960s
CD recordings of reminiscences by 20 lesbians and gay men whose ages range from 25 to 85
Nottingham CHE's 1976 programme for Radio Nottingham (where we invented "the only gay in the village"!)
An interactive CD ROM
A selection of posters showing lesbian and gay Asian people in a positive light
A4 pictures + potted biographies of 20 famous LGB people from BME communities
A timeline of local LGBT history from 1967 consisting of about 30 A4 posters
An automated Powerpoint presentation of 600 "famous LGBT faces". Extracts from this are available showing just the BME faces, just the Lesbian/bi-women faces and just the "sporting" faces
Posters illustrating Nottingham Pride Festivals since 1997
Materials relating to gays in the Holocaust and posters of the memorial sites across the world which commemorate gays in the Holocaust
A map of the world showing punishments for homosexuality in various countries
An automated Powerpoint presentation about what Switchboard does
An automated Powerpoint presentation of LGBT History (with a Nottingham bias) since the 1960s
"Pink Professions" a series of 48 A4 posters each containing 4 famous LGBT people with a single "profession" in common e.g. Politician, Olympic champion, Cartoon Character, Serial killer ....
A directory of LGBT services for Nottinghamshire - available as an e-mailed Word document
Leaflets and posters describing Switchboard's work

We also have an extensive resource library. Items from this are not available for loan, but we can use it to provide appropriate references and reading lists.