The University’s Counselling and Guidance Service are trialled “Q-chat” yesterdar morning, right before the coffee afternoon. A big thank you to all those that volunteered to help out.

The Counselling service at 3 Elm Road places a great deal of emphasis on supporting LGBTQ students and recognising the issues that they face. They also operate a “coming out, moving on” group workshop aimed at LGBTQ students; whether or not they have recently come out.

Q-chat is intended to be an online chatroom designed for LGBTQ students who would like to attend a group counselling/discussion session, but would prefer to remain anomynous. It’s completely open, completely moderated (to prevent abuse) and I believe it has the potential to vastly improve the welfare support our students receive, and even help people who are reluctant to come out take that big step and accept themselves openly.