Community News Lunch Positive invites you to its Community Lunch this Sunday, November 26 Every year in the lead up to World AIDS Day, local HIV charity Lunch Positive provides a community lunch that is open to everyone. This Sunday, November 26, the Lunch Positive Community Lunch will take place at Dorset Gardens Methodist Church, Dorset Gardens, Brighton BN2 1SA. Everyone is invited to By Gary Pargeter • 1 min read
Community News Lunch Positive – all about community! At Lunch Positive we’re so pleased that the global theme of this year’s World AIDS Day is Let Communities Lead. It speaks to everything we are as a charity, and all of our ways of working. Our work is the much needed continuation of support by and for people living with HIV that started when HIV fir By Gary Pargeter • 4 min read
HIV Brighton & Hove communities to come together on Friday, July 21 to combat HIV stigma Friday, July 21 is Zero HIV Stigma Day, a call-out for everyone to come along to the first ever Zero Stigma Rally at Jubilee Square, outside Brighton’s Jubilee Library. By Gary Pargeter • 1 min read
Features & Longread World AIDS Day Partnership: remembrance and solidarity This year the Community World AIDS Day Partnership has again been working hard to bring together the annual Candlelight Vigil and Reading of Names of people locally who have died with HIV. By Gary Pargeter • 3 min read
Community News HIV Community Representation “I’m proud to stand alongside so many others that do just that and as a result to make a difference to the lives of people in the HIV community that I value and belong to.” By Gary Pargeter • 3 min read
10 years of Lunch Positive… 10 years of Lunch Positive……with appreciation! Gary Pargeter reflects on the impact and achievements of Lunch Positive over 10 years. By Gary Pargeter • 4 min read
Lunch Positive and World AIDS Day December was an exceptionally busy month at Lunch Positive, the weekly lunch club for people who are HIV positive. It started with huge appreciation given by the members and volunteers following the empowering speech made in Parliament by Kemptown & Peacehaven MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle about being HIV- By Gary Pargeter • 3 min read
LETTER TO EDITOR: Thank you for my award “I am so grateful and happy to have received the Princess Diana community award at the Golden Handbag Awards – most especially because of all the wonderful citations that people have written. Reading those, it feels quite overwhelming, in a good way! I am so grateful to everyone that contributed – a By Gary Pargeter • 1 min read
Health HIV charity offer support to service users struggling with Universal Credit implementation Lunch Positive respond to Universal Credit implementation in Brighton & Hove. As the implementation of Universal Credit enters its final stages, there are big changes ahead with the longstanding link between disability benefits and higher levels of other benefits decreasing. By Gary Pargeter • 2 min read
Fundraising News Lunch Positive thank Pride after raising £4,465 Lunch Positive, the local HIV charity that provides a weekly HIV lunch club hosted a Community Café at Brighton Pride, on Saturday, August 5. This was the sixth year Lunch Positive have provided the café, which was situated in the Community Village on Preston Park. By Gary Pargeter • 2 min read
Health World Aids Day: A fairer future? World Aids Day (WAD) approaches and the lives of people with HIV have possibly a greater focus within our community. WAD gives us a valuable opportunity to reflect on where we’ve come from, what the struggles have been, loss, the inequalities, our achievements and our hopes for the future. Often I’m By Gary Pargeter • 3 min read
Community News Food poverty exists in Brighton actually! Food poverty exists despite stories to persuade us otherwise with 3,500 people in Brighton and Hove not able to afford to feed themselves or their families. Low pay, high rents, expensive fuel and household bills. Reduced welfare support, inadequate housing benefits, withdrawal of emergency support. By Gary Pargeter • 2 min read
