Other Services
Free wellbeing bags
We have free “wellbeing bags” with funding from NSUN ( National Survivors Users Network). Wellbeing bags contain items from companies such as Lush and Bird & Blend tea, Rainbow over Bute, and Rolling Rainbow Crafts. The bags include item such as soap bars, bath bombs and toiletries, therapeutic colouring books and pencils, healthy foods, herbal teas, cosy socks, snacks, vouchers for tea and coffee at the local LGBTQI+ café etc. We offer wellbeing bags (one bag per person) to people who attend our groups and use our services, as we know an act of kindness can go a long way to giving people a sense of well-being and make them feel valued. This is important for people who are struggling with drugs and alcohol issues. Something positive and an act of kindness can have a positive effect on well-being, welfare and mental health, plus the bags promote activities other than things that involve drugs or alcohol. Please contact info@transsober.com if you or your company would like to donate items to our wellbeing bags.
Book us for Speaking Services
We also now offer speaker services where you can book a member of the committee and sometimes a service user to make a speech or presentation at an event or on panel or come along to chat to your group.
We can talk about a range of things such as our own personal experiences and journeys of being trans and non-binary and how we came about learning to live drug and alcohol free, and how we managed this within our lives. Some of the unique experiences of being trans non-binary and the impact that has on your health and well-being and drug and alcohol use. The difficulties of accessing services and the challenges that come with that being trans non-binary and setting up and running support groups. Challenges within accessing drug and alcohol services to trans/non-binary people. Email us at info@transsober.org for availability.
Free Sports Equipment Hire
TransSober has a range of sports equipment you can hire for free. At TransSober we are passionate about supporting drug and alcohol-free living and always try and be eco-positive to save the planet. This is why we have developed our free sports equipment hire scheme. We know it can be expensive buying such equipment and storing it. So we are pleased to offer a range of equipment you can hire at no cost (see list below). We hope to be adding to this range, so if there is something you would like and it’s not on the list, it’s always worth contacting us to see if we have it. Please email info@transsober.org If you would like more information or to hire some equipment.
We also offer a range of meet-ups throughout the month to participate in relaxed fun sports activities please see events calendar for what we have planned.
Equipment list:
- Tennis rackets and balls
- Rounders equipment
- Footballs
- Rugby balls
- Visual impairment sound ball
- Table tennis bats and balls
People hiring our equipment must agree not to use drugs or alcohol whilst using the sports equipment. They must be used responsibly and at their own risk and report any damages or losses to equipment, although there will be no charge for this.
Free sanitary products
We work with Brighton Period Project to provide this
www.brightonperiodproject.co.uk
Free condoms
These are provided to us by the Terrance Higgins Trust (THT)
https://www.tht.org.uk/centres-and-services/brighton-and-hove