Take Pride in Your Wellbeing
The Brunswick Centre is here to help you feel great, live well, and be proud — connecting you to a wide range of health and wellbeing support designed for LGBTQ+ people.
- Help with smoking, alcohol, and drug use
- Mental health and emotional wellbeing services
- HIV prevention and support
- Screening, awareness, and information
- Safe, inclusive spaces
- And much more
Queer as Smoke
Queer as Smoke aims to raise awareness of smoking in LGBTQ+ communities and promote local smoking cessation provision, including the offer of vaping, in Kirklees and Calderdale.
Here you will find out about what is happening in Calderdale and Kirklees as well as specific initiatives including Swap to Stop and Creative Minds.
DRAG
Supporting LGBTQ+ people in Calderdale and Kirklees affected by substance use, alcohol, and chemsex.
Working together The Brunswick Centre, Change Grow Live (CGL) and Recovery Steps Calderdale are promoting awareness, harm reduction, and improved treatment access for LGBTQ+ people.
Queer Bits
Providing information and resources on cervical, breast, peck, and chest health.
Your Queer Bits deserve care and attention – and so do you.
LEVEL
LEVEL is a new, community-informed pilot programme supporting LGBTQ+ people who have caused harm in intimate relationships. The programme will offer a 22-week, one-to-one behaviour change intervention, alongside support for those who have been harmed – including current and ex-partners.
This is a new approach, designed to fill a clear gap in current services.
Mind Your Head
Mind Your Head is a partnership between The Brunswick Centre and Happy Valley Pride, Promoting better LGBTQ+ mental health and wellbeing in Calderdale and beyond.
The online hub has lots of tools and resources as well as links to local, regional, and national services. You can catch up on past events and find out about future activities.
Counselling
Counselling is an opportunity to talk with someone who is trained to listen. It can help you to make sense of your feelings and enable you to see difficulties and challenges in a more manageable way.
Your counsellor is trained to listen without passing judgement or giving advice. They will help you to find your own answers and fulfil your full potential.
Bounce Back
The Bounce Programme is a ‘learn-do’ course, made up of video tutorials that impart key theory and knowledge, followed by personal activities and exercises that give you the chance to put the theory into practice.
It was created by The Brunswick Centre and The Empathy Coach, and gratefully funded by Syngenta, Kirklees Council and Local Care Direct.
Mission Zero
Focusing on prevention, testing, treatment, and support services, the initiative seeks to improve health outcomes and reduce health disparities across Calderdale.
You can find out more about HIV, TB and hepatitis as well as the various services that are available in Calderdale and the huge number of resources that are available locally, regionally and nationally.
Other services
HIV Prevention
We offer free, rapid and confidential HIV testing at drop-in sessions and provide support to people living with HIV and to their carers across Kirklees and Calderdale.
HIV Support
We provide support to people living with HIV and to their carers across Kirklees and Calderdale. The type and level of support we offer will very much depend on what your needs are. You may already be very clear about what you need support with.
yOUTh
The LGBTQ+ yOUTh Service works across all of Calderdale and Kirklees, providing support to LGBTQ+ young people, their parents and carers.
And more...
Details of other LGBTQ+ wellbeing projects and initiatives will be added soon.
