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On the 19th of May I'll be dancing in the Final of Strictly Come Dancing in front of a crowd of 350 people at Belfast's City Hall. I'm doing this to raise vital funds for a charity so close to my heart. 

The Rainbow Project is a health organisation that works to improve the physical, mental & emotional health and well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender people in Northern Ireland.

Although their initial work was focused on HIV and STI prevention, it became clear that service-users had additional support needs related to their physical health generally as well as mental & emotional well-being.  As such, The Rainbow Project was able to offer professional counselling services to gay/bisexual men, and those unsure of their sexual orientation, as well as providing practical interventions in the form of advocacy support for those men or women who had been discriminated against or been verbally, physically, and/or sexually assaulted because of their sexual orientation.

Today, The Rainbow Project is still committed to the prevention of HIV and STI transmission among men who have sex with men, however, they are also committed to addressing the physical, mental & emotional health needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender people in Northern Ireland.  They do this by providing a number of services, facilitated by 15 full-time members of staff, under the direction of a volunteer-led Board of Trustees.  They continue to have a strong volunteering ethos and seek to create opportunities for people to contribute to our overall organisational aims and objectives.

They are the largest LGB&T organisation in Northern Ireland and have two centres: one in Belfast city centre and the other in Foyle, L’Derry.

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