Find out how you can help us keep our vital services running.
Over the last 40 years, we have been empowering people and communities with our health and wellbeing services. Embracing difference and respecting identities is central to how we offer support. We support marginalised communities, with a strong focus on LGBTQ+ people, people living with HIV, and young people.
METRO is fighting my corner
HIV Support service user
I just wanted to thank you and the rest of the team for running these sessions for our [young person]. He has really benefited from attending the club and it has been wonderful to watch his confidence grow as he learns more about himself and the LGBTQ+ community. Thank you for providing him with a safe space and introducing him to other wonderful teenagers. We will miss the Zest [youth] club very much.
Parent/carer feedback
In the current climate, like many frontline charities, we are finding it increasingly difficult to make ends meet, as are many of the communities we support. Funding for services which support marginalised communities is shrinking at an alarming rate. Even where the funding is being maintained, it is being stretched by increased delivery costs and ever-increasing demand. This coincides with a time when rights for the LGBTQ+ communities, particularly those for our trans and non-binary communities, are under significant threat.
We are currently facing a shortfall in our income, which means we are already having to make some heart-wrenching decisions about which services we can continue to deliver.
We have acted to reduce our overhead costs, and are continuing to explore how we can deliver services in more innovative and cost-effective ways. However, we also know that the power of human connection is central to the impact and success of the vital work we do, and that needs people and spaces.
To ensure we can keep running our vital services, we are launching our 40 for 40 campaign, where we are aiming to raise £40,000 as we celebrate our 40th anniversary.
Your help really can make a huge difference at this critical time, and help us to keep supporting people and communities for another 40 years.
Help fund the next 40 years of METRO Charity!