PRIDE OUTSIDE C.I.C.Active

Pride Outside CICAnnual Report from December 2022 - Nov 2023Overview This year was the first full 12 months of trading for Pride Outside CIC as there were only 6 months trading in the previous accounting period. We have had a successful year with our income growing by 292% from £31,754 to £92,978. In terms of social impact, we reached 549 with our paid for learning programmes and 1003 LGBTQ+ people with our free LGBTQ+ wellbeing programmes. To amplify our impact, we prioritised LGBTQ+ run businesses in our supplier chain with 86% of our budget being spent with 20 LGBTQ+ businesses, often sole traders and small businesses.Wellbeing Programmes In our LGBTQ+ Wellbeing programme, we delivered 34 wellbeing events reaching over 1003 people in Scotland, with 98% of participants reporting an improvement in their wellbeing. Our events are mainly outdoors in nature including our LGBTQ+ Wellbeing Woodlands Festival which reaches 500 people and includes a programme for 40 LGBTQ+ volunteers. Our work reached particularly marginalised parts of the LGBTQ+ community, with 42% of our participants identifying as having a disability, 33% as neurodivergent, 31% as trans or non binary and 30% as a person of colour. Learning ProgrammesIn our LGBTQ+ Training programme, we reached 81 organisations and 549 individuals with our training programmes to improve inclusion and diversity in workplaces and communities. This included in person and online workshops as well as longer term consultancy projects.

As described in the company's latest filed accounts.