United Queerdom C.I.C is a grassroot organisation run for and by the LGBTQI+ migrants and asylum seekers from Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Northern and Central Asia living in the UK. The organisation fully operates on voluntary work with no paid staff, including directors. Over the year following our registration on 25/10/2024 our activities have benefited the community in the following ways: Integration programmes focused on the fundamentals of life in the United Kingdom. Between 25/10/2024 and 24/10/2025 has delivered eleven two-hours workshops to cover a wide range of topics focused on the fundamentals of life in the United Kingdom with an aim to facilitate a smoother integration of LGBTQIA+ asylum seekers, refugees and migrants into British society. The list of the topics covered is as follows: “Understanding banking systems in the UK”, “How creative tools can be used to promote equality and diversity within a community”, “How to travel in the UK and beyond on budget and with comfort”, “The role of an immigration lawyer”, “Living histories of LGBTQ+ Britain”, “Questions of budgeting and managing finances”, “Unconscious bias and Equality laws in Britain today”, “What’s standing behind the LGBTQIA+ letters soup”, “Understanding Non-binary and trans identities”, “Approaches to writing a CV: how to gain interest from the potential employer”, and “Understanding Further and Higher education systems in the UK”. The number of attendees per workshop has ranged from 20-40 individuals from the United Queerdom community. Networking events and peer-to-peer support Between 25/10/2024 and 24/10/2025 United Queerdom has organised eleven face-to-face meeting days open to all (270) participants of the community and gathering from 25-50 people over the six-hour monthly events. Activities included regular discussions on the community matters such as creation of a safe space through reviews of chat rules and code of conduct, regular community swap-shop, board and team games, community-building speed-“dating”, and additional sessions and discussions such as “how to assess correctly an unsafe situation” and practical creative workshop on make-up and skincare “Glow with Pride”. We held two picnics in the spring which allowed us to share food and socialise with other community members while building stronger ties in different public locations of London. Services designed to improve the wellbeing and mental health of members. Between 25/10/2024 and 24/10/2025 United Queerdom provided more than one hundred hours of mental health support in the online format. Initial five one-hour sessions are offered to the community attendees upon request to join the queue with one of our psychological support volunteers. This is to support the community with transitioning into life in the United Kingdom and aims to relieve mental and emotional crises that community members may suffer. Promoting international cultural exchange and LGBTQIA+ diversity and cultural expression, including through the arts Between 25/10/2024 and 24/10/2025 United Queerdom organised four evening events celebrating holidays, traditions and customs of different countries, cultures and religions practiced in the community. These included the New Years and Christmas celebrations, Spring Ball, which included significant holidays such as Nauryz, Easter and Passover as well as Pre-Pride events celebrating LGBTQI+ identities and Halloween extravaganza. These events gather around 100 participants each time. In addition to the workshop on LGBT+ histories and identities in the UK, we have hosted an LGBT author Sergey Khazov-Kassia, who did a reading of his short queer story called Mother. In addition, United Queerdom organised a documentary screening about conversion therapy by Nikita Loyk with a Q&A session with the producer for our community. We marched with the community at Pride in London 2025 (75 participants) and Brighton Pride 2025 (50 participants). The attendance to these events is limited by the Prides organisers with additional people arriving to the post-parade gatherings we organise in the parks (Victoria Embankment Gardens in London and Preston Park in Brighton). Other activities assisting with integrating the community into British society United Queerdom has ties with the Host Nation charity and does referrals to befriend a native-English speaker with an aim to improve communication skills in English language as well as to get in touch with British life based on some common interests. General Community Support Any additional support that will allow for greater participation in the life of the community. We aim to provide personalised assistance tailored to the unique needs of each member of the community. This includes emergency support in crisis situations, collaborative problem-solving, the establishment of a resource and information hub, fostering cultural sensitivity and inclusiveness, and continuously gathering feedback for service improvement. The goal is to ensure flexible and effective support for the successful integration of members into British society. Academic participation United Queerdom established collaboration with the (Digital) Media and Cultures (DMC) Study Group in the context of the US and UK legal challenges to equality, diversity and inclusion especially in regard to gender and sexuality. The planned activities include two creative offline workshops for a group of United Queerdom participants titled Queer Horizons to run in February and March 2026. The workshops to be documented by the photographer and the outcomes to be presented in the form of an exhibition at 2026 BASEES conference. United Queerdom has also proposed a roundtable at 2026 BASEES conference to present the becoming of the community to the academic audience with an aim to raise awareness and potential support. The roundtable to take place in April 2025 and to include three to five representatives from the community who will touch on the group’s history and will answer the questions of how the LGBTQI+ migrants from Eastern Europe, Caucasus, Northern and Central Asia living in the UK coexist as a community, and how is a safe and inclusive space made possible in the light of cultural, religious and ethnic diversity. While celebrating the community's achievements, the criticism and the challenges involved in the work and the development of the United Queerdom will also be raised. Collaborations with other organisations and institutions in order to represent interests of our members We collaborate with the following organisations: Queercircle - (Bldg 4, Design District, 3 Barton Yard, Soames Walk, London SE10 0BN) is a charity hosting our monthly meetings, our educational programme workshops and our creative projects. Orford House - (73 Orford Road, Walthamstow Village, London. E17 9QR) is a social club hosting our evening events.

Regular online meetings were organised for the nine registered members of the United Queerdom C.I.C. as well as the volunteers comprising an operative council and working teams of the community. The meetings were taking place weekly at the end of 2024 when the demand was high for the consultations and decision making. By the end of 2025 these meetings were taking place monthly on the first Thursday of each month. All discussions and decisions are recorded in the minutes. The community holds an action log reflecting the work done as a response to the consultations. Examples of such meetings include GDPR compliance, community bank account opening, social media operations etc. Additional consultations with the community were taking place in-person as part of our monthly meetings which have resulted with written codes of conduct in the online space and in-person gatherings. Consultations with the wider community attendees have also set parameters to our participation in Pride events, such as rejection of the national flags during the marches.

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