The low-down on what we'll be getting up to at OutZone during the next few weeks...
Scroll down to find out what we’re doing this month at our weekly group. New members are welcome every week... so why not get in touch?
This page is usually(!) Updated on or before the 1st day of each month (or if there is a last minute change of plan). It's always a good idea to check this page regularly to make sure you know where and when we are meeting for various events.
Email: info@outzone.org
Call: 0207 700 1323
Join our Facebook Group
You don't have to come along every week, or stay for the whole session if you don't want to, but we hope you will! You can also subscribe to our newsletter to get the very latest news and/or programme changes.
Click here if you’re worried about what to expect when you get in touch or come along to the groups.
MARCH 2010
Friday 5th March
New Members Night/Residential Weekend Planning Session 3
Housing and homelessness – Support for gay and bisexual young men
Chlamydia Screening at OutZone! (In association with Brook)
It's a busy one tonight! As usual, the first Friday of every month is New Members Night – Make March the month you make it to OutZone.
Not long to go now until our super-amazing peer-mentor led residential weekend at Avon Tyrrell in the New Forest…and the excitement is starting to build. We’ll be finalising our plans and workshops for the weekend and making sure you have all the information you need should you find yourself lucky enough to have bagged a place…
Also – Michael from JIGSAW will be paying us a visit to provide some information about homelessness and housing options for gay and bisexual young men in London.
Did you know Chlamydia is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted infection in the UK and is on the increase? Women aged 16-24 and men aged 20-34 are at the greatest risk. OutZone has teamed up with Brook London to offer all group members free, confidential Chlamydia screening from the comfort of your favourite youth group. Come along tonight to get yourself tested! Find out more about Brook here.
Friday 12th March
OutZone @ Home
A night in with the lads at OUtZone HQ. There'll be a Wii knockout competition, Andre's Parlour Games and we'll be making some fab OutZone posters and other stuff to put up at PACE...Come along and join in from 6.30pm!
Friday 19th March
OutZone Photo Board – Another little bit of OutZone history in the making…
A cool suggestion from Andre, one of OutZone’s lovely peer mentors, to create an OutZone Photo-board with images from OutZone events and happenings - a useful tool for our Peer Mentors to use when helping new members settle in and find out more about us… You can either bring some of your fav pics and/or we can take some new ones! Disposable cameras and inspiration provided!
Friday 26th/27th/28th March
OutZone – OUT of the CITY-Residential Weekend to Avon Tyrrell.
OutZone is CLOSED tonight for those of you NOT coming away with us on the residential weekend. Back in two weeks time after the Good Friday Bank Holiday next week! See you soon!! Missing you already...
APRIL 2010
Friday 9th April
New Members Night
April - June 2010 Programme Preview & Session Planning
It’s April! As usual, the first Friday of every month is always New Members Night. Get OUT and about in April with OutZone. You know you want to…
We'll be previewing the next three months at OutZone and asking for your ideas and thoughts on what you think should be going on during weekly group sessions. Come along and/or email your ideas to: info@outzone.org.
Friday 16th April
Self Defense and 'Breakaway Techniques'
The reported 48% rise in gun crime, and almost 27% rise in homophobic attacks on London’s streets during 2009 means it’s even more important that we learn what we can do now to help keep ourselves as safe as possible. Our very own Theresa (the 'original' Girl Diva) will be at OutZone tonight to show us some cool self-defense and breakaway techniques that might help - should you ever find yourself in need of them. Another fantastic OutZone session, not to be missed!
Friday 23rd April
Election Fever!
With a General Election just around the corner (OutZone predicts it'll be on Thursday 6th May) and politicians of all persuasions (good and bad) promising us just how much better they are going to make things (so long as we mark a cross next to their name on election day), OutZone will be digging a little deeper and taking a look at the choices laid before us - in order to decide which way we’re going to swing… as it were.
Will there be a ‘Brown Bounce’ or can ‘Cameron and Co.’ pull it off? Does the sound of 'Prime Minister Clegg', float your boat? Just how hung can a parliament be? Is a swing-o-meter a good or bad thing? How stupid must one be to vote BNP? Ahem...
Whatever you think about politicians and politics, it's vital that you cast your vote on polling day. Check out the links to the three main political parties below:
The Labour Party - http://www.labour.org.uk
The Conservative Party - http://www.conservatives.com
The Liberal Democrats - http://www.libdems.org.uk
Friday 30th April
Soho Remembers - 11th Anniversary of the London Nail Bomb Attacks
In a change to the previously advertised programme, OutZone will be attending an event in central London tonight organised by the Soho Remembers 17-24-30 campaign to mark the 11th anniversary of Soho nail-bombings. Find out more about homophobia and hate crime here, or by joining the Soho Remembers 17-24-30 Facebook group. Show your support for this worthy campaign.
Info from the Soho Remembers 17-24-30 campaign:
Further details will be announced shortly.
MAY 2010
Friday 7th May
New Members Night
Guess what…? New Members Night! Maybe you will, Maybe you won’t, but we hope you do - make it to OutZone in May. The hardest part is turning up for the first time.
Click here is you're still unsure about coming along for the first time. More info about tonights session soon...
Friday 14th May
Fit for Summer - Session 1: Yoga and Keep Fit with Derek
Tonight we'll be getting a bit spiritual - and hopefully, nicely relaxed. Derek will be letting us in on the secrets of yoga and effective relaxation. All you need to do is bring yourself along to OutZone tonight from 6.30pm. Loose clothing would be advantageous... but isn't essential.
Friday 21st May
STI’s - Not, why, oh why's...
An important workshop for all young men and OutZone members everywhere: As part of our 'Sexually Healthy - Sexually Happy' series, we'll be focusing our energies on finding out more about STI’s. (Sexually Transmitted Infection's) We'll be looking at how to spot (and sort out) all sorts of nasties, which if left untreated, can cause all sorts of trouble and strife. Come along tonight to find out all you never wanted to know (but glad you found out) about STI’s.
Friday 28th May
Fit for Summer – Session 2 - Diet and nutrition
Fighting the flab and keeping healthy are one and the same thing. Are you sure you're getting your 5-a-day? Tonight we’ll create our top tips to help ensure we look and feel great in time for PRIDE London 2010. More details soon....
JUNE 2010
Friday 4th June
New Members Night
Banner Making in preparation for PRIDE London 2010
New members night - need we say more? Join OutZone this Summer!
Also, It’s been a couple of years since we updated the 'official' OutZone Banner (and to be honest, we're not even too sure where it is!) so it must be about time make a new one! Come along tonight (preferably with your creative juices flowing) and give us a hand to help create another OutZone masterpiece...Lovely.
Friday 11th June
Fit for summer - session 3: Looking after ME, (myself and I)
No details yet – Check back soon.
Friday 18th June
To be announced
No details yet – Check back soon.
Friday 25th June
OutZone Mid-summer picnic in Highgate woods!
Join us for our 'mid-summer picnic' in Highgate Woods. We'll be meeting outside Highgate tube station at 6.45pm (Car Park Exit) - Please don't be late!! We'll be providing snacks and drinks and taking part in some team games - Come along, join us and have FUN! (If it's raining - we'll be meeting at OutZone HQ, as usual)
JULY 2010
Friday 2nd July
New Members Night
Pre-PRIDE preparations
Here comes summer 2010!! As usual, the first Friday of every month is New Members Night and our lovely Peer Mentors can be on hand to help any newbies settle-in and feel at home.
Join us as the excitement starts to build for what, (no doubt) will be a fantastic PRIDE Day tomorrow. We'll be finishing off our banners and signs, finalising our plans and dusting off our tiara’s...well, some of us will... ;)
We'll also be asking for your help in preparing our legendary condom and lube 'Back Pocket Packs' that we'll be giving out to the crowds as we take part in the PRIDE London Parade 2010. There will be the usual social (locally) for those of you aged 18 and over and able to prove it!).
SATURDAY 3rd July
PRIDE London
The biggest day in London's queer calendar has finally arrived. Join us for the 2010 PRIDE London celebrations: This year's theme celebrates '40 Years of the Gay Liberation Front' and has been titled: PAINT THE TOWN RUBY RED...whatever that might mean?! Find out more at the official PRIDE London site.
Join London's leading youth projects (on the gayest day of the year) as we 'pimp our pride' through the streets of central London. We'll be joined by our sister project, Girl Diva, our newest younger sibling, First Move. More details soon.
Friday 9th July
To be announced
No details yet – Check back soon.
Friday 16th July
To be announced
No details yet – Check back soon.
THURSDAY 22nd July
Brighton Beach Ambush 4
“Oh we do like to be beside the sea-side...beside the sea’. Games on the beach — fish and chips & a '99' — rides on the pier and some retail therapy - It doesn't get much better than this. 25 places for our youth group members. We’ll be meeting at Victoria Station at 11am.
Friday 23rd July
OutZone is CLOSED tonight
Back as normal, next week.
Friday 30th July
To be announced
No details yet – Check back soon.
Scroll down to find out what we’re doing this month at our weekly group. New members are welcome every week... so why not get in touch?
This page is usually(!) Updated on or before the 1st day of each month (or if there is a last minute change of plan). It's always a good idea to check this page regularly to make sure you know where and when we are meeting for various events.
Email: info@outzone.org
Call: 0207 700 1323
Join our Facebook Group
You don't have to come along every week, or stay for the whole session if you don't want to, but we hope you will! You can also subscribe to our newsletter to get the very latest news and/or programme changes.
Click here if you’re worried about what to expect when you get in touch or come along to the groups.
MARCH 2010
Friday 5th March
New Members Night/Residential Weekend Planning Session 3
Housing and homelessness – Support for gay and bisexual young men
Chlamydia Screening at OutZone! (In association with Brook)
It's a busy one tonight! As usual, the first Friday of every month is New Members Night – Make March the month you make it to OutZone.
Not long to go now until our super-amazing peer-mentor led residential weekend at Avon Tyrrell in the New Forest…and the excitement is starting to build. We’ll be finalising our plans and workshops for the weekend and making sure you have all the information you need should you find yourself lucky enough to have bagged a place…
Also – Michael from JIGSAW will be paying us a visit to provide some information about homelessness and housing options for gay and bisexual young men in London.
Did you know Chlamydia is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted infection in the UK and is on the increase? Women aged 16-24 and men aged 20-34 are at the greatest risk. OutZone has teamed up with Brook London to offer all group members free, confidential Chlamydia screening from the comfort of your favourite youth group. Come along tonight to get yourself tested! Find out more about Brook here.
Friday 12th March
OutZone @ Home
A night in with the lads at OUtZone HQ. There'll be a Wii knockout competition, Andre's Parlour Games and we'll be making some fab OutZone posters and other stuff to put up at PACE...Come along and join in from 6.30pm!
Friday 19th March
OutZone Photo Board – Another little bit of OutZone history in the making…
A cool suggestion from Andre, one of OutZone’s lovely peer mentors, to create an OutZone Photo-board with images from OutZone events and happenings - a useful tool for our Peer Mentors to use when helping new members settle in and find out more about us… You can either bring some of your fav pics and/or we can take some new ones! Disposable cameras and inspiration provided!
Friday 26th/27th/28th March
OutZone – OUT of the CITY-Residential Weekend to Avon Tyrrell.
OutZone is CLOSED tonight for those of you NOT coming away with us on the residential weekend. Back in two weeks time after the Good Friday Bank Holiday next week! See you soon!! Missing you already...
APRIL 2010
Friday 9th April
New Members Night
April - June 2010 Programme Preview & Session Planning
It’s April! As usual, the first Friday of every month is always New Members Night. Get OUT and about in April with OutZone. You know you want to…
We'll be previewing the next three months at OutZone and asking for your ideas and thoughts on what you think should be going on during weekly group sessions. Come along and/or email your ideas to: info@outzone.org.
Friday 16th April
Self Defense and 'Breakaway Techniques'
The reported 48% rise in gun crime, and almost 27% rise in homophobic attacks on London’s streets during 2009 means it’s even more important that we learn what we can do now to help keep ourselves as safe as possible. Our very own Theresa (the 'original' Girl Diva) will be at OutZone tonight to show us some cool self-defense and breakaway techniques that might help - should you ever find yourself in need of them. Another fantastic OutZone session, not to be missed!
Friday 23rd April
Election Fever!
With a General Election just around the corner (OutZone predicts it'll be on Thursday 6th May) and politicians of all persuasions (good and bad) promising us just how much better they are going to make things (so long as we mark a cross next to their name on election day), OutZone will be digging a little deeper and taking a look at the choices laid before us - in order to decide which way we’re going to swing… as it were.
Will there be a ‘Brown Bounce’ or can ‘Cameron and Co.’ pull it off? Does the sound of 'Prime Minister Clegg', float your boat? Just how hung can a parliament be? Is a swing-o-meter a good or bad thing? How stupid must one be to vote BNP? Ahem...
Whatever you think about politicians and politics, it's vital that you cast your vote on polling day. Check out the links to the three main political parties below:
The Labour Party - http://www.labour.org.uk
The Conservative Party - http://www.conservatives.com
The Liberal Democrats - http://www.libdems.org.uk
Friday 30th April
Soho Remembers - 11th Anniversary of the London Nail Bomb Attacks
In a change to the previously advertised programme, OutZone will be attending an event in central London tonight organised by the Soho Remembers 17-24-30 campaign to mark the 11th anniversary of Soho nail-bombings. Find out more about homophobia and hate crime here, or by joining the Soho Remembers 17-24-30 Facebook group. Show your support for this worthy campaign.
Info from the Soho Remembers 17-24-30 campaign:
- Back in 1999 over a period of three weeks the nail bomber David Copeland planted three nail bombs, targeting three different communities. The first bomb was planted in Brixton on the 17th April 1999 targeting the Black community, the second bomb targeted the Asian community in Brick Lane on the 24th April 1999 and the third bomb killed three people when it exploded on the 30th April 1999 in the Admiral Duncan pub targeting the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered community of Soho. The bomber was caught before he was able to plant his next bomb targeting the Jewish community in Golders Green. What David Copeland wanted to do was strike fear into these communities and provoke a backlash which would result in the election of the BNP. Luckily his plan failed.
Further details will be announced shortly.
MAY 2010
Friday 7th May
New Members Night
Guess what…? New Members Night! Maybe you will, Maybe you won’t, but we hope you do - make it to OutZone in May. The hardest part is turning up for the first time.
Click here is you're still unsure about coming along for the first time. More info about tonights session soon...
Friday 14th May
Fit for Summer - Session 1: Yoga and Keep Fit with Derek
Tonight we'll be getting a bit spiritual - and hopefully, nicely relaxed. Derek will be letting us in on the secrets of yoga and effective relaxation. All you need to do is bring yourself along to OutZone tonight from 6.30pm. Loose clothing would be advantageous... but isn't essential.
Friday 21st May
STI’s - Not, why, oh why's...
An important workshop for all young men and OutZone members everywhere: As part of our 'Sexually Healthy - Sexually Happy' series, we'll be focusing our energies on finding out more about STI’s. (Sexually Transmitted Infection's) We'll be looking at how to spot (and sort out) all sorts of nasties, which if left untreated, can cause all sorts of trouble and strife. Come along tonight to find out all you never wanted to know (but glad you found out) about STI’s.
Friday 28th May
Fit for Summer – Session 2 - Diet and nutrition
Fighting the flab and keeping healthy are one and the same thing. Are you sure you're getting your 5-a-day? Tonight we’ll create our top tips to help ensure we look and feel great in time for PRIDE London 2010. More details soon....
JUNE 2010
Friday 4th June
New Members Night
Banner Making in preparation for PRIDE London 2010
New members night - need we say more? Join OutZone this Summer!
Also, It’s been a couple of years since we updated the 'official' OutZone Banner (and to be honest, we're not even too sure where it is!) so it must be about time make a new one! Come along tonight (preferably with your creative juices flowing) and give us a hand to help create another OutZone masterpiece...Lovely.
Friday 11th June
Fit for summer - session 3: Looking after ME, (myself and I)
No details yet – Check back soon.
Friday 18th June
To be announced
No details yet – Check back soon.
Friday 25th June
OutZone Mid-summer picnic in Highgate woods!
Join us for our 'mid-summer picnic' in Highgate Woods. We'll be meeting outside Highgate tube station at 6.45pm (Car Park Exit) - Please don't be late!! We'll be providing snacks and drinks and taking part in some team games - Come along, join us and have FUN! (If it's raining - we'll be meeting at OutZone HQ, as usual)
JULY 2010
Friday 2nd July
New Members Night
Pre-PRIDE preparations
Here comes summer 2010!! As usual, the first Friday of every month is New Members Night and our lovely Peer Mentors can be on hand to help any newbies settle-in and feel at home.
Join us as the excitement starts to build for what, (no doubt) will be a fantastic PRIDE Day tomorrow. We'll be finishing off our banners and signs, finalising our plans and dusting off our tiara’s...well, some of us will... ;)
We'll also be asking for your help in preparing our legendary condom and lube 'Back Pocket Packs' that we'll be giving out to the crowds as we take part in the PRIDE London Parade 2010. There will be the usual social (locally) for those of you aged 18 and over and able to prove it!).
SATURDAY 3rd July
PRIDE London
The biggest day in London's queer calendar has finally arrived. Join us for the 2010 PRIDE London celebrations: This year's theme celebrates '40 Years of the Gay Liberation Front' and has been titled: PAINT THE TOWN RUBY RED...whatever that might mean?! Find out more at the official PRIDE London site.
Join London's leading youth projects (on the gayest day of the year) as we 'pimp our pride' through the streets of central London. We'll be joined by our sister project, Girl Diva, our newest younger sibling, First Move. More details soon.
Friday 9th July
To be announced
No details yet – Check back soon.
Friday 16th July
To be announced
No details yet – Check back soon.
THURSDAY 22nd July
Brighton Beach Ambush 4
“Oh we do like to be beside the sea-side...beside the sea’. Games on the beach — fish and chips & a '99' — rides on the pier and some retail therapy - It doesn't get much better than this. 25 places for our youth group members. We’ll be meeting at Victoria Station at 11am.
Friday 23rd July
OutZone is CLOSED tonight
Back as normal, next week.
Friday 30th July
To be announced
No details yet – Check back soon.
You don't have to come along every week, or stay for the whole session if you don't want to, but we hope you will! OutZone members are also able to subscribe to our newsletter to get the very latest news and/or programme changes.
Click here if you’re worried about what to expect when you get in touch or come along to the groups. Click here to find out how to contact us or telephone us on 020 7700 1323 (office hours)
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