OLGA NEWSLETTER ISSUE 16 June-July-August 2012 OLGA Useful contact information Older Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Trans Association A Community Network SEXUALITY Albion Pub & Cabaret PO Box 458 Scarborough YO11 9EH Telephone: 07929 465044 136 Castle Road, Scarborough Tel: 01723 379068 OLGA Tel: 07929 465 044 Email: [email protected] www.olga.uk.com Email: [email protected] www.olga.uk.com Gay Scarborough Tel: 01723 375 849 Newsletter Issue 16 June-July-August 2012 P0 Box 458, Scarborough YO11 9EH Bacchus Night Club Tel: 01723 373 689 MESMAC Yorkshire. Tel: 01904 620 400 7a Ramshill Road, Scarborough YO11 P0 Box 549, York. Y030 7GX York Lesbian Social Group 18+ Tel: 07963 414434 MENTAL HEALTH Email: [email protected] OLGA’s successes GENERAL ADVICE Crisis Call Tel: 0800 501 254 (telephone support) One or two particular successes care homes, which makes our 01723 384644 (crisis response, resolution and Customer First Tel: 01723 232 323 need to be highlighted. work extremely valuable and home treatment) (Free from landlines. Mobiles - Scarborough Borough Council (General Enquiries) Firstly, our work is being needed. We believe that Peter cost for initial message and Crisis Call will call St. Nicholas Street, Scarborough YO11 2HG researched and will be Tatchell has begun to be you back, which is free) OLGA TeI: 07929 465 044 Summer has arrived, after a published by a senior involved in olgbt care issues. Great. We need his strong Samaritans Tel: 01723 368 888 Email: [email protected] long drawn out wet Spring. So, researcher from Nottingham voice. Samaritan House, 40 Trafalgar Street West, P0 Box 458, Scarborough YO11 9EH we hope our readers can enjoy University, End-of-life and Scarborough YO12 7AS Age UK Scarborough Tel: 01723379058 more outdoor activities and get Palliative Care Department. It Secondly, OLGA is being invited involved in some of the Gay appears that we are the only more and more to do speeches Survivors Mental Health Resource Centre 39 Aberdeen Walk, Scarborough YO11 BD Prides being held around the people at the moment and presentations to large Tel: 01723 501 049 Advocacy Alliance Tel: 01723 363 910 Country this Summer. delivering lgbt workshops in audiences. 9 Alma Square, Scarborough YO11 1JR Allatt House, 5 West Parade Road, Scarborough YO12 5ED Mind Tel: 01723 588008 Drop in Centre at Queen Street Methodist Church, Citizens Advice Bureau Fridays 12.30 to 3.3Opm. Tel: 01723368710 What has OLGA been up to? 2 Roscoe Street, Scarborough YO11 HOUSING Police March 2012 We delivered four Workshops in April 2012 Housing Support Tel: 0845 872 7374 Tel: 999 (Emergency/Crime Being Carried out) Chair, Secretary and Co-ordinator North Yorkshire Care Homes. North Yorkshire County Council Tel: 101 (Non-Emergency) OLGA Social Attendees enjoyed www. northyorks.gov.uk went to London to a Forum on The owner of two care homes Tel: 0845 606 0247 (Police attendance is required) three writing workshops on the olgbt and care issues. We hope and the manager of a care Stonham Homestay Tel: 01723 366 566 Tel: 0800 555 111 (Crime Stoppers/To pass on subject of Coming Out. These to encourage more people from home will speak at our Annual Scarborough & Ryedale Homelessness Prevention Information related to any Crime) were user led by one of our our Community to do similar General Meeting on July 10th Email: [email protected] Tel: 01723 384 444 (Anti-Social Behaviour) members. Project Co-ordinator work to what OLGA does. 2012. Tenancy Support Services spoke at North Yorkshire Health Roscoe Street, Scarborough YO12 7BY www.olga.uk.com Link AGM in Harrogate. Following this presentation, she Yorkshire Coast Homes Tel: 0845 065 5656 The website will be used as a way of keeping in touch Gladstone Road, Scarborough YO12 7BH with what OLGA is up to on your behalf. is being interviewed by a Radio York Reporter. SOCIAL CARE We will also use it as a way to share with you local Social Services national and international news that we feel you may May 2012 North Yorkshire County Council Tel: 08450349410 be intereste d in. You must let us know if we are getting Newsletter produced and this right, or not. Or, if you have seen something you SOCIAL project co-ordinator spoke to would like to share; please let me know: OLGA Tel: 07929 465 044 the Royal College of Nursing Email: [email protected] Annie Hooper, Marketing & Communications lgbt Network members in www.olga.uk.com Manager – OLGA Tel: 07944 210825 Harrogate at their RCN Congress Lou Squires owner of two Care Homes attended OLGA Workshop P0 Box 458, Scarborough YO11 9EH www.olga.uk.com and Exhibition AGM. OLGA NEWSLETTER ISSUE 16 June-July-August 2012 OLGA NEWSLETTER ISSUE 16 June-July-August 2012 Q. What do you do at OLGA? Q. How do you like to relax when not working for OLGA? A. My main role is befriending Mary's social care section OLGA members. A. I go to the gym, and I love Q. What do you enjoy most socializing with my friends, Dr Kathryn Almack, communities. working with OLGA and in about OLGA work? many of whom are members of regular contact with Mary. OLGA OLGA. one of OLGAs most Dianne and Jackie stayed people A. I enjoy everything about really are pioneers in this area; OLGA’s work . I especially enjoy Q. Where would you like to see valued partners involved and went on to running awareness raising attending meetings on behalf olga in the future? successfully complete a three workshops to health and social tells of her work day training programme, aimed This is a regular of OLGA. care staff. I sat in on one A. I would like to see olga at preparing older volunteers to feature in our with us: workshop in a care home and Q. What do you not enjoy about extend its National presence. I undertake community-based I’ve talked to another care Newsletter. This time your work with OLGA? I am a Senior Research Fellow at peer education for advance care know it already is well known, home manager who bought in we will hear from a the University of Nottingham, planning and associated end of A. Honestly, I enjoy all of my but more national advertising OLGA’s trainers and I know in the Sue Ryder Care Centre for life care issues. I know Dianne Volunteer, Mark. volunteering work with OLGA. would be good. what valuable work this is. I’d the Study of Supportive, and Jackie have continued to Palliative and End of Life Care. make use of that training and like to bring different resources information. together and to produce some One of my main areas of work good practice guidelines for Attitude Magazine shows the way is research with older lesbian, More recently I linked up with care homes to become more gay, bisexual and transgender the National End of Life Care LGBT friendly and OLGA are (LGBT) older people and those Programme (NEOLCP) and the helping with this. to better coverage of LGBT stories. who work with them. OLGA National Council of Palliative have been involved in a lot of Care (NCPC) to look at what was Finally just to mention – I know Attitude Magazine are to be same challenges as anyone else Well done JOHN! The younger my work – without research being done nationally to some OLGA members are congratulated, as is one of our who gets old. The difference is Gay readers should be reading partners like OLGA, my work address the end of life care hoping to get to a conference I members, John age 70 whose that they don’t always have the articles about older gay people would not be possible. It’s needs and concerns of older article “I ran away from home same network support around have helped to organise with and seeing positive images of been a privilege to build up LGBT people. We carried out a NEOLCP and NCPC: Showcasing at 63”, was part of a two page them. If anything happens to my older gay people showing relationships with the group broad consultation with older Research, Policy and Practice spread in Attitude’s April 2012 health, I want to stay here. This is affection. COME ON EDITORS, and see how much the group LGBT people and again OLGA about end of life care for LGBT edition. John says, “Older where I consider myself to have has achieved in recent years. members contributed to those people. June 21st in London. people who are gay face the family: MY FAMILY OF CHOICE”. LEAD THE WAY. The energy and commitment of consultations. Out of those This is aimed at a mixed OLGA members is really events we have been working audience of health and social inspirational! on different fronts to address care staff working around end OLGAS Members Socials issues raised. of life care, LGBT people and Our links started a few years OLGA provides safe confidential and help out with activities. ago when Dianne and Jackie For example, I am currently those who work with them. We disabled access venue in central Our disabled members get came along to a workshop I finding out about work that has want everyone attending on Scarborough. Here we can be help, by fetching them a drink. organised in York. This was part been carried out (or is the day to take away an action of a bigger research project underway) to address the point of something they can relaxed and chat openly about Recently, we have enjoyed Ruth guiding the Writing about peer education in end of needs of older LGBT people in address in their lives or the WHOLE of our lives.