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# Brighton Bear Weekend raise £8,460 for Rainbow Fund
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/brighton-bear-weekend-raise-8460-for-rainbow-fund/
- Published: 2018-07-14T08:00:04.000Z
- Updated: 2018-07-23T15:12:58.000Z
- Description: Brighton Bear Weekend (BBW) organisers hosted a thank you party at the Camelford Arms on Tuesday, July 10 to thank volunteers, performers and venue owners who helped stage BBW 2018 from June 14-17.
- Author: Besi

## Brighton Bear Weekend (BBW) organisers hosted a thank you party at the Camelford Arms on Tuesday, July 10 to thank volunteers, performers and venue owners who helped stage BBW 2018 from June 14-17.

![](https://www.scenemag.co.uk/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/dsc0031.jpg)

**THE weekend was** raising money for the Rainbow Fund, a Brighton based fund who give grants to LGBT/HIV organisations that deliver effective front line services to LGBT+ people in the city.

**Steve Beaumont** a member of the Rainbow Fund Independent Grants Panel was on hand to receive a cheque from Graham Munday, Chair of BBW for £8,460\. A further £750 was raised at the *Bear-B-Que and Picnic* in Dorset Gardens for Lunch Positive who ran the community cafe and £850 for the *Brighton and Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum* who ran the on-site bar bringing the overall total raised during Brighton Bear Weekend for good causes to £10,060.

Total raised included a £250 donation from local licensee **Andy Tull** and £100 from **Michael McGarrigle** owner of Bar Broadway who hosted *Bear-a-oke*.

The annual BBW has now raised over £35,000 for the Rainbow Fund.

**For more information about BBW, click [here:](http://brightonbearweekend.com/?ref=scenemag.co.uk)**

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