NEW MAGAZINE LAUNCH IN OCTOBER 2020
NEW RAINBOW DIRECTORY AND ENTERPRISE NETWORK
NEW MAGAZINE LAUNCH IN OCTOBER 2020
ON ITS WAY: We are super excited about our new Somewhere: For Us magazine, supported by UnLtd's Do It grant and due to launch in October 2020, after a delay due to COVID19.
The magazine will feature four sections: Arts, Culture, Heritage and Enterprise and we will be shining a spotlight on all these aspects of LGBTQ+ life across Scotland and beyond.
The success of our magazine depends on you and your support. By becoming a monthly or yearly member you'll receive a copy of our quarterly magazine and a freebie mug, and you'll contribute to our two new LGBTQ+ funds.
Or why not buy us a rainbow latte or two by way of a donation, to help us get off the ground? Thanks for all your support so far. Here's to a great launch!
FUNDING FOR YOU: GRANTS SCHEME
NEW RAINBOW DIRECTORY AND ENTERPRISE NETWORK
NEW MAGAZINE LAUNCH IN OCTOBER 2020
COMMUNITY FUNDS: Up to 20% of all membership income will go into our new Somewhere: Funding for You grants scheme. As well as creating a fabulous new quarterly publication, we are founding two new LGBTQ+ funds for Scotland, enabling LGBTQ+ and ally creatives, researchers and business owners to thrive authentically. We will be creating a community panel to help with applications when funding is ready to go live.
The Somewhere: Arts and Culture Fund will support LGBTQ+ creatives needing small grants for creative work, as well as to help us reach our aim of developing a new community-funded LGBTQ+ arts festival for Scotland.
The Somewhere: Enterprise and Research Fund will support LGBTQ+ start-up entrepreneurs and business owners, and provide a means to create new research.
NEW RAINBOW DIRECTORY AND ENTERPRISE NETWORK
NEW RAINBOW DIRECTORY AND ENTERPRISE NETWORK
NEW RAINBOW DIRECTORY AND ENTERPRISE NETWORK
COVID19: We know the LGBTQ+ community has been hit really hard by COVID19, so we are doing our bit to help champion queer spaces and places, and especially to help support LGBTQ+-owned and LGBTQ+-ally businesses.
As part of our Somewhere: For Us magazine, we are offering a FREE listing in our Rainbow Directory to all LGBTQ+-owned and LGBTQ+-supporting businesses across Scotland, and as we connect up, we are developing a new Rainbow Enterprise Network across Scotland.
We want to hear from you about how COVID19 has been affecting you and your business.
Get in touch for more information and to claim your free sticker for your space and/or logo for your website.
PRIDE MONTH NEWS
PRIDE MONTH blog
CULTURAL PRACTICE article
PRIDE MONTH blog
Lives, Livelihoods and Progress
A blog for Emerald Publishing on the effect of COVID19 on LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs and businesses
AGRESPECT pledge
CULTURAL PRACTICE article
PRIDE MONTH blog
SRUC makes Agrespect pledge
Our Founder Kath is part of the SRUC team cementing their commitment to equality and diversity in the rural sector
CULTURAL PRACTICE article
CULTURAL PRACTICE article
CULTURAL PRACTICE article
A blog for the Institute of Cultural Practice's magazine talking about our new work with Edinburgh University
OUR PROJECTS AND PARTNERSHIPS
RESEARCH: Collaborative Doctoral Award announced
RESEARCH: Collaborative Doctoral Award announced
RESEARCH: Collaborative Doctoral Award announced
NEW CULTURAL ENTERPRISE LGBTQ+ PHD FOR SCOTLAND
Through our links with the Scottish Graduate School of Arts and Humanities, we are delighted to have been named Partner Organisation in a brand new Collaborative Doctoral Award starting this October, focusing on Cultural Geographies of LGBTQ+ Entrepreneurship in Scotland.
We are hugely delighted to be working alongside our Academic Partners in the Department of Geography within the School of Geosciences at the University of Edinburgh.
Applications for this fully funded PhD (starting October 2020) are now closed. Thank you and good luck to all our applicants!
ENTERPRISE: Scholarship and Mentoring
RESEARCH: Collaborative Doctoral Award announced
RESEARCH: Collaborative Doctoral Award announced
SCHOLARSHIP & MENTORING: LGBT+ FIRST FOR SCOTLAND
In 2019, a joint partnership between Somewhere and University of Edinburgh Business School co-created Scotland's first LGBT+ MBA Scholarship and Mentoring Programme, and this is continuing again in 2020/21.
Somewhere offers mentoring to LGBTQ+ people in business and cultural organisations and is mentoring this year's scholarship recipient.
Applications for 2020/21 for both full- and part-time MBA programmes are now closed. Good luck to everyone who applied. Watch this space for news!
CULTURE: Somewhere At The Fringe
RESEARCH: Collaborative Doctoral Award announced
RESEARCH: LGBTQ+ enterprise focus
SATF 2020:
A GROWING SUCCESS
Our yearly campaign supporting the 5% of shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe made for, by or about the LGBTQ+ community, is going from strength to strength. Our 2019 campaign built on the success of 2018, with a fantastic team of volunteer interviewers and reviewers.
Though we are saddened that the 2020 Fringe is COVID19 affected, we are delighted to have been awarded a PhD internship through the University of Glasgow, to work with us on our SATF project for 2020 - more soon!
Thank you to everyone who supported us this far, and please get in touch if you would like to be part of an even bigger SATF 2021
RESEARCH: LGBTQ+ enterprise focus
RESEARCH: LGBTQ+ enterprise focus
RESEARCH: LGBTQ+ enterprise focus
NEW LGBTQ+ RESEARCH:
2018 / 2019 / 2020 / 2021
Somewhere is a research-led social enterprise and is contributing to research, knowledge and understanding of LGBTQ+ equality, diversity and inclusion issues.
As well as our Arts and Culture Fund, through our members, we are co-creating a new Enterprise and Research Fund, starting with the launch of our magazine in autumn 2020.
We continue to actively expand our research collaborations with HEIs across Scotland, and we have new work with the University of Strathclyde and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH).
CULTURE: Community Partnerships
RESEARCH: LGBTQ+ enterprise focus
CULTURE: Community Partnerships
LAVENDER MENACE RETURNS: 2019, 2020
Somewhere is delighted to be a community partner in the exciting new plans to reimagine and relaunch the famous Lavender Menace LGBT bookshop.
The bookshop was a first for Scotland, and its founders, Bob and Sigrid, are much-loved community role models, and a big part of Scotland's LGBTQ+ cultural heritage.
As well as supporting Lavender Menace on their journey to becoming a new community interest company, there will be a permanent book-related Lavender Menace section in our new Somewhere: For Us magazine for 2020
CULTURE: LGBT History Month 2021
RESEARCH: LGBTQ+ enterprise focus
CULTURE: Community Partnerships
LGBT YOUTH SCOTLAND'S LGBTQ+ HERITAGE FESTIVAL
The annual LGBT History Month programme of events is a fantastic opportunity to strengthen our knowledge and understanding of LGBTQ+ history past and present.
Somewhere is here to shout about all the fantastic work across the month, so check in with us to check out the many diverse events taking place across Scotland each February.
As 2020's Pride season is COVID19 affected, we are especially looking forward to LGBT History Month 2021, to be able to rejoin our communities post-lockdown
WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP TO
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Big Lottery funded
community consultation work
2016 and 2017 - through the Somewhere MCR pilot project
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