The Outside Project

The organisation was launched as a pilot scheme in 2017 to provide emergency crisis winter housing for homeless LGBTIQ+ people.

The campaign was led by LGBTIQ+ people with lived experience of homelessness in London, who continue to lead the organisation today.

The project received funding from the Greater London Authority in 2018 and reopened as a year-round Shelter and LGBTIQ+ Centre in the former Clerkenwell Fire Station.

Following the move from Clerkenwell Fire Station in April 2021, The Outside Project LGBTIQ+ Centre reopened in their permanent site on Lant Street, Southwark, London in June 2021.

The LGBTIQ+ Centre provides professional housing advocacy, domestic abuse access point, needle exchange, sexual health drop-in and a range of social, support and creative groups.