NAZ

23/12/2025

Our services will be taking a break over the holidays!

Naz will be closed from noon on December 24 to January 1, with our services resuming as normal on Friday 2 January at 9:30am.

Our inbox will be intermittently monitored. If you need to speak to a counsellor urgently please ring one of the following services. If you are in immediate crisis, call 999.

: 116 123 open 24/7
: 0300 304 7000 open 4:30pm - 10:30pm everydayuk: 0800 689 5652 open 24/7
: 0300 330 0630 open 10am - 10pm everyday
The Mental Health Single Point of Access on 0800 328 4444

23/12/2025

We're hiring! Sexual Health Counsellor (working with Black, Asian & Global Majority clients) 💬

Part-time (22.5 hrs / 3 days per week, including one evening), fixed-term to 31 Mar 2027. Salary: £30,000 pro rata (£18,000 for 3 days per week). You’ll deliver solution-focused counselling (up to 12 sessions), manage a caseload of up to 12 clients/week, and work across Kensington, Soho, and Hammersmith.

We’re looking for someone with a relevant counselling qualification, UKCP or BACP registration, at least 3 years’ post-qual experience (150 supervised hours), willingness for an enhanced DBS, and who positively identifies as Black, Asian or Global Majority. Great benefits include an EAP, pro-rata annual leave and an exceptionally inclusive workplace.

Got questions or want to apply? Send your CV and cover letter to kim@naz.org.uk

Deadline to apply is 12 January 2026.

23/12/2025

Naz Quarterly Newsletter: Winter 2025

What a year it's been! Check out our latest newsletter reflecting on the last four months and we're looking forward to in 2026.

Keep updated on Naz's s*xual and mental health services, events, advocacy, and latest news in the fight for health equity.

18/12/2025

New year, new chapter. 📚✨

Resolution to read more in 2026?
Finding new third spaces?
Make friends at your Big Age™ in the big city?

We got you.

F2B is back (and refreshed) on 27th Jan, delving into the acclaimed modern lit novel Stay With Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀! A powerful exploration of the strength and fragility of love, family ties, grief, and the beautiful ache of motherhood.

Come for the book, stay for the community.

🎟️ Free tickets via Eventbrite: https://bit.ly/4pHQelS

02/12/2025

Your donations go right back into the community, supporting Londoners to live their very best lives. So, what's the impact of your donation to Naz?

£5 covers a full packaged meal for someone in financial need.

£10 covers the materials we use at one of our LGBTQ+ peer support groups.

£20 provides a full 1:1 peer mentoring session for someone struggling with mental health and social isolation.

£50 covers a full 1:1 peer mentor session for someone navigating the increasingly complex healthcare and immigration systems.

£100 covers the venue cost for a full Community Outreach Day, so we can reach more people with mental, s*xual, and social health support needs.

On this , help support our community through a donation (small or big) to Naz. https://www.gofundme.com/f/bridge-to-bridge-walk-2024 💛

Sexual health is more than just physical health. That's why we centre joy, community, wraparound care, dignity, and equity in all that we do.

01/12/2025

1 December is World AIDS Day, a day where we remember in power all our loved ones — those we knew and did not know — who have lost their lives to an AIDS-related illness.

We’ve come a very long way since the 1980s, yet there is still an onging fight for equal access to treatment and to end HIV stigma worldwide.

We’ve made tremendous milestones to ending new HIV transmissions, from the development of anti-retroviral therapies, to PrEP and PEP, and the worldchanging reality of U=U.

The 2025 HIV Action Plan shows political will to reengage people in care and address stigma in healthcare, but we must do more to ensure everyone living with HIV can live well and with dignity.

Today, and every day, we love and cherish our loved ones, colleagues, activists, and those we don’t know around the world who are living with HIV. Those who have worked tirelessly for equity, care, and dignity for everyone living with HIV.

We’re reminded of the fierce activism of ACT UP that calls us to remember the dead, and to fight like hell for the living.

World AIDS Day is on 1 December, but we remember every day.

Naz will never stop working towards a London and world free of HIV stigma.

In love and solidarity, forever and always.

-Naz

01/12/2025

It's December! ❄️ Check out our programmes and event this month with links below 🔗:

- Monday 1 Dec: Marking World AIDS Day worldwide

- Tuesday 2 Dec: Sexual health clinic at Naz (30 Black's Rd, London W6 9DT) from 4pm-7pm. Book an appointment to see our nurse at info@naz.org.uk!

- Tuesday 2 Dec: Dost x Kali Kiss Game Night Social at Naz (30 Black's Rd, London W6 9DT) from 6:30pm-8:45pm! Register: https://bit.ly/3XfPU12

- Thursday 4 & 18 Dec: Health and Wellbeing Coffee Drop Ins at Melanin Health and Wellness (London, SE17 1FN) from 12:30pm-4:00pm! Register: https://bit.ly/4ojtxmC

- Friday 19 Dec: LGBTQ+ Wellbeing Drop-in: Sexual Health and Self-Care at the LGBTQ+ Community Centre (London, SE1 9JH) from 5pm-8pm! Register: https://tinyurl.com/nazdropin

30/11/2025

A big step for s*xual health in the UK: the gonorrhoea vaccine is now available for FREE at NHS s*xual health clinics.

Through our partnership with 10 Hammersmith Broadway, Naz is proud to offer the vaccine every first Tuesday of the month at our clinic running from 4-7pm.

Want to get the vaccine or see our nurse about PrEP or testing? Email info@naz.org.uk to book an appointment.

Prefer to go to a clinic closer to home or work? Find your closest clinic: https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/services-near-you/

25/11/2025

Dost, our South Asian GBTQ+ men and non-binary folks group, and Kali Kiss, our South Asian LBTQ+ women and non-binary folk group invite you to our second annual Game Night Social! 👾🎲🧩

WHEN: 7pm (arrive from 6.30pm onwards for snacks and social)
WHERE: Naz, 30 Blacks Road, Hammersmith W6 9DT

🔗 Register for free: https://bit.ly/3XfPU12

No worries if you're new to Dost or Kali Kiss, come along for an evening of connection, games, food, and fun to bring 2025 to a close!

Club Kali

25/11/2025

Come along to our Health & Wellbeing Coffee Drop-Ins!

☕ When? 4th December and 18th December, 12:30pm – 4:00pm
☕ Where? Melanin Health & Wellness Community Centre, Southwark SE17 1FN

Pop in for a chat over coffee with the Naz Team, where we’ll be on hand to answer your questions about:

🤎 Sexual & reproductive health
🤎 Contraception
🤎 Accessing counselling and other support services
🤎 Free HIV and s*xual testing

Plus, enjoy free goodies and a warm, welcoming space to connect! ✨

24/11/2025

We're back with a new episode of The Clapback Curriculum! 🎙️🔥

Not every story by people of colour has to be about pain. Joy, imagination, softness, adventure, and complexity belong to us too.

We’re talking representation in the stories we read: who gets written, who gets erased, and what representation looks like when the narrative broadens.

If you enjoy storytelling, exploring identity, and breaking open the literary canon, this one’s for you. 💛

Listen now on Spotify ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/worldsopen

22/11/2025

The morning after pill is now free at many places across England.
You can get a consultation and the pill in the same place, with no cost.

If you’re 16 or older, you can get emergency contraception from:
👉 NHS pharmacies
👉 Sexual health clinics
👉 Your GP

Emergency contraception can help stop pregnancy after unprotected s*x, or if your usual contraception didn’t work. It works best when taken as soon as possible, up to 3–5 days after unprotected s*x.

Pharmacists can also give advice on oral birth control and may be able to provide repeat supplies.

Remember: birth control does NOT protect you from STIs. Only condoms can help protect you.