About Us
The LGBT Centre for Health and Wellbeing
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About us
The organisation
The LGBT Centre for Health and Wellbeing is a unique Healthy Living Centre initiative which opened in 2003 to promote the health and wellbeing of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in Scotland.
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The organisation’s key objectives are:
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· To provide a programme of activities which tackle the life circumstances that contribute to ill-health of LGBT people
· To reduce levels of isolation and social exclusion experienced by LGBT people
· To strengthen the capacity of the LGBT community to promote the health of individuals
· To support individuals to adopt and sustain healthy lifestyles
· To ensure that LGBT people have equity of access to mainstream health services and information which are responsive to their needs.
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The LGBT Centre provides a varied programme of services, events, courses and groups, most delivered from its centrally located Edinburgh base. The best way to keep up to date with our activities is to subscribe to our regular e-bulletin Village Voices, which you can do from any page of our website (see left hand side of screen).
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The 2011-2012 annual report can be downloaded in PDF format (this may take a few minutes to download)
Information for people wishing to complain
The LGBT Centre for Health and Wellbeing aims to provide high quality services and support at all times. However, sometimes we might not get this entirely right. We want to make sure we do our best to learn from any areas where we do not perform well, and improve our work as a result.
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If you are unhappy about our work or any part of the serviceds we provide we would be grateful for comments, criticism and complaints. These help us to do things better. Our full complaints procedure is available here
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The staff team
The organisation’s staff team are based at Edinburgh’s LGBT Centre for Health and Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street. The office is staffed 9am-5pm Monday-Friday.
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All staff email addresses follow the format of the person’s first name (as below), followed by “@lgbthealth.org.uk” (email addresses are not case sensitive).
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Maruska Greenwood, Director
0131 523 1106
Louise Farquharson, Administrator & Project Assistant
0131 523 1100 (general office number)
louisef@lgbthealth.org.uk
Louise Lewis, Finance Worker
0131 523 1100
Stacey Webster, Deputy Director (Mental Health Project)
0131 652 3282
Alison Wren, Development Worker (Mental Health Project)
0131 652 3283
George Burrows, Community Development Worker (Mental Health
Project)
0131 652 3281
Lynne Macdonald, Development Worker (Drug & Alcohol Project)
0131 652 3285
Claire Thomson, Project Assistant (Mental Health Project)
0131 652 3284
Deputy Director (Community Development)
0131 523 1105
Stephen McCabe, Equalities Development Worker
0131 652 3285
Jules Barnes, Community Development Worker (Social Capital
Project)
0131 523 1104
Garry McGregor, LGBT Age Project Coordinator
0131 523 1107
Stefan Milenkovic, Development Worker (LGBT Age Project)
0131 523 1102
Rose Marshall, Development Worker (Transition Support Service)
0131 523 1100
Board of Directors
The LGBT Centre for Health and Wellbeing is governed by a Board of Directors, who are who are responsible for ensuring that the charity is well-managed in line with its vision and mission and that it abides by its charitable objectives. You can contact Margaret Smith, the Chair of the Board of Directors, at chair@lgbthealth.org.uk
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Margaret Smith (Chair)
Trevor Owen (Vice-Chair)
Jonathan MacBride
Heather McCluskey
Alison Meiklejohn (NHS representative, non voting)
Peter Roberts (Treasurer)
Ruth Stevenson
