Freshwinds, as lead on behalf of the Birmingham HIV Partnership, has secured £180,000 funding for the next 2 years to work with consortium partners to deliver HIV services across the city. The partnership have delivered a number of activities in the past as a group including the very successful Birmingham HIV Living Archive project which collected the stories of people living with and affected by HIV in the city of Birmingham.

The partnership of Freshwinds, ABplus, The Terrence Higgins Trust Birmingham and Barnardo’s will be delivering a joined up pathway of care and support for people with HIV including peer support, advice and information, activities, health and well-being services and many more. The partnership is seeing this successful funding application as the start of many more joint applications to develop the HIV sector further in Birmingham to meet the changing and unmet needs of the client group.

Birmingham HIV Partnership worker Dr Catherine O’Byrne said: “it is fantastic that we have been awarded this grant as it will enable the partnership to build on the success we have had in working together over the past few years. It gives the sector a real boost as we are nearing World AIDS Day”.

For more information, please contact Catherine on 0121 4156670 or Catherine@birminghamhivpartnership.org.uk