Open letter from Billie Lewis, Volunteer Chair of Brighton & Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum (CSF) re its closure. After fifteen years as a volunteer with CSF, including the last ten as Chair, I have agreed with my fellow committee members that this is the right time to close the CSF.I need to concentrate on my own return to full health after a year of challenging illness, and over the last six months – due to Covid – the majority of the volunteer committee members have had to make decisions about their own futures, this has involved several having to leave Brighton for other opportunities.
We have struggled to find replacements and cannot continue to operate on such a reduced committee.CSF is therefore formally withdrawing all its.