LGBT+ retirement community gets Comic Relief funds

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LGBT+ retirement community gets Comic Relief funds
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Geoff Pine launched one of the UK's first housing communities for older LGBTQ+ people following mistreatment of his partner in a care home. It's recently been awarded funding by ComicRelief to carry on its work. 📱More here: rednoseday comicrelief

Comic Relief 2023: LGBT+ retirement community gets fundsWhat is described as the UK's first retirement community celebrating LGBT+ people has been awarded funding from Comic Relief.

Tonic at Bankhouse, in Vauxhall, south London, has been launched by Geoff Pine for deeply personal reasons - after his partner suffered discrimination for being a gay man while living in a retirement home. Now, Comic Relief has given funds to the business to help with staffing costs and to help maintains its 19 shared-ownership apartments.

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