Attendance tells you who walked in. It doesn’t tell you whether anyone felt welcome once they did. So we use a mixed-methods approach that measures not only what we deliver, but whether we are creating the conditions that make change possible: welcome, belonging, knowledge, confidence, trust, reciprocity and sustained community connection.
This is the framework we work to, published rather than kept for funders. If you are considering funding or partnering with the club, everything you would ask for is on this page.
Black and Global Majority LGBTQI+ adults engage with our activities and return over time.
Participants feel welcomed, safe, affirmed and able to be their whole selves.
Participants increase understanding of rights, wellbeing, services and wider social issues, and feel more confident to participate and advocate.
Participants feel less alone, build supportive relationships and are more willing to access support.
Participants help shape the space, while BBJC strengthens its systems, partnerships and wider learning.
Participants become more willing and able to seek support, navigate services, draw on peer networks and respond to challenges with greater resilience and collective confidence.
BBJC strengthens its systems, evidence base, partnerships and long-term sustainability, while also contributing learning and insight to partners, funders and the wider sector.
Black and Global Majority LGBTQI+ adults face isolation, stigma, racism, homophobia, transphobia and limited access to culturally relevant support.
Clear understanding of unmet need and barriers.
Funding, facilitators, lived experience, trusted relationships, venues, food, access support, partnerships and outreach.
Resources in place to deliver safe, regular community activity.
Shared meals, walks, workshops, cultural activity, peer support, one-to-one check-ins, outreach and intergenerational dialogue.
Participants access regular, welcoming and culturally relevant spaces.
People attend and take part in BBJC spaces.
Participants engage and return.
Participants feel welcomed, safer, less isolated and more represented.
Increased belonging, trust, confidence and immediate wellbeing.
Participants build knowledge, confidence, peer support and willingness to seek help.
Improved help-seeking, stronger relationships, increased self-advocacy and resilience.
Participants move into sustained community connection and shared ownership.
Stronger resilience, healthier engagement with support and greater community participation.
A stronger, community-led culture of wellbeing, belonging and mutual care for Black and Global Majority LGBTQI+ adults in London.
Reduced isolation, increased connection, improved wellbeing and a more sustainable support model.
The full framework, the logic model and the underlying strategy are available as documents, along with the mapping between this and the members’ own words in In our own words. If you are a funder, a partner or a researcher and you want the detail behind any row above, ask.