I'm doing the Blenheim Palace Triathlon on 3rd June to raise money for Micro Rainbow, a charity supporting LGBTQI refugees and asylum seekers.

In 76 countries homosexuality is illegal. 1,500 LGBTQI refugees from those countries come to the UK every year. When they come to the UK they are still not safe. Because of their sexuality, gender identity, gender expression or intersex status they often abused in detention centres and face a hostile environment outside of them.

Micro Rainbow:

- Provides safe housing to LGBTQI asylum seekers and refugees

- Facilitates access to employment, volunteering, training and education for LGBTQI refugees through our moving on programme

- Provides social inclusion activities to reduce the extreme isolation faced by LGBTQI people

They also are fundamental in helping release LGBTQIA refugees from the horrendous detention centres and into housing. It costs £30 per day to provide an LGBTQI migrant coming out of detention with housing, subsistence and support.

Please donate! xx