Wakefield boasts a variety of well preserved buildings which reflect its past as an inland grain and cloth port and its mining industry. Today Wakefield City is a vibrant place to visit, celebrating the diversity of the district’s cultural heritage. Yorkshire MESMAC’s office is based in central Wakefield and has been providing services since 1993. For the past two years Wakefield has also had a dedicated LGBT youth service.
The specific services in Wakefield are listed below, for a list of services that are available at all of our offices please click here.
Free Condoms and Lubricant
You can order condoms (extra strong), lubricant (water based) through our Confi’doms scheme.
Should you have difficulty using standard condoms we can provide larger, smaller and thinner condoms to men living in the Wakefield district. [top]
Local Groups
For more information about any of these groups please click on the name of the group:
The
Fruitbowl Youth Group
(for ages up to 25)
Rainbow
Family Network
Support group for LGB parents
in West Yorkshire.
OUT25+
Social group for Gay men and Lesbians aged over 25.
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Local resources
We also stock a range of information and resources produced by other agencies. For paper copies to be sent out please contact the Wakefield office. [top]
Partnership work with local services – The Police, Teenage Pregnancy Team, Public Health, Victim Support.
In Wakefield we believe that partnership work produces results!
Yorkshire MESMAC in collaboration with the Teenage Pregnancy team are working towards more inclusive PSHE and SRE in local schools.
We are also working with the Public Health Training Team delivering condom training, incorporating same-sex issues and associated relevant information and local services, to enable condom access to be improved for Gay and Bisexual boys and young men in the Wakefield district.
Together with Begin, a service aimed at people living with HIV and AIDS in the Wakefield District, Yorkshire MESMAC has produced various high quality health promotion resources. You can get online copies of these resources by clicking here or contact our Wakefield office for paper copies. [top]
Hate Incident Reporting
Yorkshire MESMAC in Wakefield is also a Hate Incident Reporting Centre – this is a third party reporting scheme which gives the opportunity to report a crime without visiting or contacting the police directly. You can report anonymously so that you can make West Yorkshire Police aware of incidents, this enables West Yorkshire police to target resources into areas where there are problems.
There
are 100 Hate Incident Reporting Centres in the Leeds area and
they take reports for Homophobic and Racist Hate Crime, these
centres all display the logo on the left.
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Some other local agencies in Wakefield you may find useful include:
Begin
Begin Care and Support for those Infected
and Affected by HIV and AIDS in the Wakefield district.
Tel: 01924 211117
www.beginwakefield.co.uk
HIV Counselling and Support Service
Counselling and Testing services aimed at
those infected or affected by HIV.
Tel: Wakefield 01924 364144
Pontefract 01977 606888
NHS Walk in Centre
Immediate information and advice on health
issues
Trinity Medical Centre, Thornhill Street, Wakefield, West Yorkshire,
WF1 1PG
Tel:01924 784245
Social Care Direct
A 24 hour Social Care help line run by Social
Services in Wakefield
Tel: 01924 303456
Wakefield Hate Crime Liaison Officers
Support for dealing with hate crime incidents
Tel: 01924 221400 or 01924 221041
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Wakefield MESMAC
P O Box 19
Wakefield
WF1 2YE
Tel: 01924 211116
Fax: 01924 216111
Email: wakefield@mesmac.co.uk
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