Season's greetings and welcome to the Journey December update - our last of a very successful 2025! At the last Journey meeting on December 16th, our focus was on the intersection between being LGBTQ+ and disability through sharing information about disabilities which disproportionately affect LGBTQ+ people: mental health illnesses, neurodivergence, and HIV/AIDS. We chose this theme as December sees World AIDS Day on the 1st, and International Day of Persons with Disabilities

27th November 2025 was a milestone for our young network - our first ever appearance at industry awards: none other than the prestigious Railstaff Awards! We were shortlisted in the ' Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Team or Person Award' for our ' Pride on Rails ' event at this Summer's Railway 200 Greatest gathering at Alstom's Litchurch Lane works. Pippa Armstrong and Joe Brown from the leadership team were present alongside two of the peformers at the event in August, Fel

Today marks World AIDS Day 2025, so last week we helped to organise three collections for Terrence Higgins Trust at three London railway termini: London Bridge on Tuesday 25th November, and Waterloo and Charing Cross on 27th November. Volunteers from Transport for London, Department for Transport, KPMG, Southeastern Rail, Network Rail, British Transport Police and South Western Railway were so generous with their time and braved the chill to shake buckets and card readers, r

A week ago we were graced by the presence of the force of nature that is Jason Jones at the latest in a series of fantastic collaborations between Journey LGBTQ+ in Transport, KPMG, Department for Transport and Transport for London at the KPMG offices in Canary Wharf. The event marking Black History Month 2025 was opened by Director General of Rail Alex Hynes reflecting on the power of cross-industry collaboration and the importance of senior LGBTQ+ visibility and representat

It was a fabulous day on Saturday 16th August supporting transport industry colleagues on our stand at Medway Pride in Rochest er: ...