June is Pride month – a time of celebration, visibility and, of course, pride. It’s also a time when brands, venues and people across the country step up to raise vital funds for causes which support the LGBT+ community.
That includes our life-changing work at Terrence Higgins Trust. LGBT+ communities have been with us every step of the way since we were founded 40 years ago and that remains the case today. That’s why we’ve rounded up 10+ ways you can show your support for our work this Pride month.
Together we can end new HIV cases in the UK by 2030 and tackle the stigma that stops people living well with HIV.
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Support people living with HIV this Pride
Next’s Pride collection
Next is supporting our work for the second consecutive year by donating the profits of their new Pride range to us. And we genuinely love all of it – T-shirt, tote bag, pin badge and more. Buy your favourite or get them all!
Your pre-loved Pride outfit
There’s only one Terrence Higgins Trust charity shop, which is part of what makes Boutique in London’s Pimlico so special.
The shop has beautiful bargains all year round – including many designer items – but this Pride month the team has picked out some brilliant pieces for the perfect rainbow outfit.
Tatty Devine’s shooting star necklace
We love every single thing that Tatty Devine makes, but the brand’s shooting star necklace with special Terrence Higgins Trust engraving is so special.
It’s a limited edition, so get it while you can to wear this Pride month and support our life-changing work at the same time. £5 from every sale comes to us.
Emma Bridgewater’s Love is Love mug
An Emma Bridgewater mug is a perfect gift – even if it’s one for yourself. We’re thrilled that the Emma Bridgewater team is donating a whopping £5 from the purchase of every Love is Love mug to Terrence Higgins Trust. So what are you waiting for? Add a little rainbow to your kitchen!
Say hello and donate to us at tube stations
Pride is all about visibility and we’re going to be out and about at Prides across the country. We’ll be marching loudly and proudly to raise aware of the incredible opportunity to end new HIV cases by 2030, as well as handing our information and chatting about HIV and sexual health.
During Pride in London we’ll be at Tottenham Court Road, Leicester Square and Canary Wharf tube stations, shaking buckets and brandishing contactless card readers. So if you see us, please give us a cheer and donate generously!
You can also organise your own bucket collection.
DEN loungewear’s Pride tee
We love DEN’s black tee with the brand’s logo in the colours of the rainbow flag and trans flag with all profits coming to ensure our continuing support for people affected by HIV and poor sexual health.
These DEN red briefs are still supporting us too, which was a partnership for World AIDS Day.
Classical Pride at Barbican Centre
Whether you’re a long-time fan of classic music or even if you're not, Classical Pride at Barbican Centre will be one of the highlights of the summer on Friday 7 July. We can’t wait to experience conductor Oliver Zeffman and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra present the first Classical Pride concert given by a major orchestra in Europe.
As well as Terrence Higgins Trust, the event is also supporting LGBT+ charities Amplifund and Rainbow Railroad.
Your own Pride fundraiser
Another key part of Pride is community and joining together with others in the community and our allies. If you’re doing something for Pride, we would love it to be in support of our work and can support you every step of the way. Whether it’s a Facebook fundraiser, Pride picnic, taking on the Big Shave or anything else that you want to do, we're here to help!
Tabuu limited edition Pride pill case
Tabuu supporting Terrence Higgins Trust all started with an Instagram DM. Someone reached out to Tabuu mentioning their friend who is living with HIV but isn’t open about his HIV status and uses their pill cases to help him hide his medication.
Sadly, people who are newly diagnosed with HIV often feel unable to openly talk about it because of the huge stigma associated with the virus. The Tabuu x Terrence Higgins Trust pill case is a Pride product with a purpose – the collaboration aims to open up the conversation around HIV treatment, not only to tackle stigma, but also to educate the general public on how much HIV has changed since the 1980s.
This includes the fact that people living with HIV who are on effective treatment can’t pass it on and can expect to live just as long as anyone else. And that there’s an HIV prevention pill called PrEP that you can take to protect yourself from HIV.
Rainbow poop bag dispenser from Pets at Home
Why should humans get all the Pride fun? Our friends over at Pets at Home have launched a new Pride range for our pets to wear, including a rainbow bowtie, bandana and even poop bag.
And, as you might’ve guessed, the proceeds are coming to us at Terrence Higgins Trust as well as akt – which does brilliant work to address LGBT+ youth homelessness.
Scribbler’s Pride range
The problem with going into a Scribbler to buy a birthday card for your mum is that there are so many other brilliant things in there. That’s why we’re excited that many items in Scribbler’s Pride range are going to support us at Terrence Higgins Trust.
Thank you for supporting us this Pride
This isn’t an exhaustive list, but we really wanted to share some of the brilliant ways brands and individuals are supporting us this summer. If you’re supporting us this Pride season, we’d love to hear from you by emailing [email protected].
We’re on a mission to end new HIV cases by 2030 and we can’t do it alone. But together we can make a huge impact on the lives and mental health of people living with and affected by HIV, and make sure sexual and reproductive health is the priority is needs to be.
Thank you! And happy Pride.
