The Outside Project

We are LGBTIQ+ colleagues, friends & activists who work in the Homeless sector & have lived experience of homelessness & the unique, complex issues our community face. We volunteered to launch the UK’s first LGBTIQ+ Crisis/Homeless Shelter & Community Centre. We launched publicly at London Pride 2017, campaigning alongside the passionate & talented LGBTIQ+ community of activists & artists.

Since our founding in 2017, The Outside Project has campaigned for and led groundbreaking initiatives to support homeless LGBTIQ+ people in London. From the original LGBTIQ+ Winter Night Shelter in 2017 to the COVID emergency response and founding of the UK’s first LGBTIQ+ domestic abuse refuge in 2020, the organisation works tirelessly to address the absence of LGBTIQ+ crisis housing for London’s estimated ½ million LGBTIQ+ population.