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HIV Activist Trade Union Activist (Unite)

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Richard @richardwales.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
#TogetherAlliance #UnitetheUnion thanks to Unite the Union Cymru @unitetheunion.bsky.social for supporting my travel.
A selfie of me wearing a black jacket with a rainbow unite flame logo, a black baseball cap with an all white unite logo and wearing glasses
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Richard @richardwales.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Today’s the last day of my Movember fundraiser! I’m £55 away from my £100 goal for men’s health. If you can afford to donate, even a few pounds, it helps support mental health, suicide prevention & cancer research. Thanks for backing this. Support my fundraiser: #Movember #MensHealth #LastDay
movember.com
Richard Churcher's Mo Space
Richard's Motivation: Movember is the leading charity changing the face of men's health, and this Movember I'm joining them. Together we can make a difference for men's health – in prostate cancer, te...
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Richard @richardwales.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
For a train that’s only 4 minutes late you are doing a disservice to the local community of north Cardiff #coryton next stop #heathlowlevel #tyglas closed so why not prioritise #birchgrove affecting resident and business @transportforwales.bsky.social @annamcmorrin.bsky.social
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Richard @richardwales.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I look weird with a ‘tache. The final week approaching so if you can please donate here: Support my fundraiser: movember.com/m/15449256?m... #movember #unitetheunion #testicularcancer #mentalhealth
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I’m raising £100 for men’s health
£70 TO GO!

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MOVEMBER®
CHANGING THE FACE OF MEN’S HEALTH
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Sharon Graham @unitesharon.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
😡 Blacklisting workers for union activities is despicable.  Those who do it are breaking the law and must be held to account.  Birmingham’s bin workers are well aware that there is something rotten at the top of the council.
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Richard @richardwales.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I’m taking part in #MoVember to raise awareness of men’s health! I’ve set a goal of £100, and I’m almost there - just £90 to go! Every donation helps tackle #prostatecancer #testicularcancer & #mentalhealth challenges Support here: movember.com/m/15449256?m... #unitetheunion #menshealth
Graphic promoting a movember fundraising campaign. Text reads “I’m raising £100 for men’s health. £90 to go!” Below is the movember logo with the tagline “Changing the face of men’s health” The background shows a group of people walking forward in a dramatic, cinematic style
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Richard @richardwales.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Shaved ready for tomorrow. Anyone who knows me knows I hate shaving. This will be a challenge. Donate to motivate me here if you can: movember.com/m/15449256?m... #UnitetheUnion #MoVember2025 #MensHealthMatters
Close-up of a bald person looking directly at the camera with stylized white text over their upper lip reading “MOCOMINGSOON,” mimicking a mustache. Bold white text at the bottom says “1 DAYS TO MO” above “MOVEMBER.COM,” with a mustache icon between the lines. A rainbow-striped heart symbolizing LGBTQ+ inclusion appears in the top left, and a sticker-like graphic in the top right reads “IT’S TIME TO UNITE.” The image promotes the Movember campaign for men’s health and inclusivity.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 02/09/2025
We're looking for a Lead Audience Development Producer - is that you? 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/were-looking-f…
wearequeeraf.com
We're looking for a Lead Audience Development Producer - is that you?
Could you transform a 4000-word newsletter into content that helps people understand the LGBTQIA+ world?
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LeatherMen Cymru @leathermencymru.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Our next social takes place in The Golden Cross, Cardiff on Saturday 12th from 930pm Fetish wear is encouraged but not compulsory
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Richard @richardwales.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Are you PrEPped? PrEP is a pill that can stop HIV transmissions. PrEP services in Wales are free and can help put people in charge and keep them protected. Read more here: www.shwales.online/wales-prep-p... #PrEPWales #PrEPCymru #Wales #Cymru #HIV #PrEP
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Richard @richardwales.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
A Union can represent you anonymously. If you're not sure which union to join, visit www.tuc.org.uk
tuc.org.uk
TUC: Trades Union CongressMobile menuTUC facebookTUC twitterTUC linkedinTUC TiktokStay in touch submit button
The TUC is the voice of Britain at work. We support trade unions to grow and thrive, and we stand up for everyone who works for a living. Every day, we campaign for more and better jobs, and a more eq...
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Unite Cardiff Council Branch WA/B1055 @unite-cc-wa-b1055.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
🎉 Health & Safety Win at County Hall! 🙌 Thanks to a vigilant member, outdated safety posters at evacuation stair chairs are being reviewed & updated. 📝💪 Together, we’re making our workplace safer! Big thanks to all involved! 👏 #UniteTheUnion #SafetyFirst #TeamWork
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Unite Cardiff Council Branch WA/B1055 @unite-cc-wa-b1055.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Happy St. David's Day! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 💛 Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant Hapus! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 💛
A red dragon facing the unite logo that makes it look like the ribbons of the logo are dragon fire bordered by daffodils
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Unite Cardiff Council Branch WA/B1055 @unite-cc-wa-b1055.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Update. We’re now here until 15:00. We’ve had quite a bit of engagement already. Come and say hi and why it’s important to join a union if you work at Cardiff Council. #joinunite #joinaunion
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Richard @richardwales.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
#lgbthistorymonth2025 #hivactivist #america #pedrozamora youtu.be/o2Le9Bf_s3w?... #mtv #realworld
youtu.be
How Pedro Zamora used TV to fight AIDS
YouTube video by Matt Baume
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Unite Cardiff Council Branch WA/B1055 @unite-cc-wa-b1055.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
www.unitetheunion.org/media/4gxhh1... Click link to download #UnitetheUnion LGBT+ Timeline #lgbthistorymonth2025 #activismanssocialchange
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Unite Cardiff Council Branch WA/B1055 @unite-cc-wa-b1055.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Introduce a new member to Unite and get a shopping card worth up to £25 Every time you introduce a new member, you make Unite stronger and to recognise your help, we will give you a Unite member get member Love2shop Ecode worth up to £25. www.unitetheunion.org/.../unite-me...
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Unite Cardiff Council Branch WA/B1055 @unite-cc-wa-b1055.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Stop cuts to Cardiff Uni Save our Nursing School Sat 3rd May May Day March And Rally Sat 3rd May 12:00 noon Assemble Churchill Way/Queen Street, Cardiff CF10 2GR
Stop cuts to Cardiff Uni
Save our Nursing School
Sat 3rd May
May Day March And Rally
Sat 3rd May 12:00 noon
Assemble Churchill Way/Queen Street, Cardiff CF10 2GR
Cardiff Trades Union Council would like to thank it's May Day sponsors:
Unite: Cardiff General Branch
Unison: Cardiff Council Branch
Unite: Cardiff Council Branch
Caerphilly Trades Council
RMT: Cardiff Rail
Unite: Cardiff Community Branch
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Unite Cardiff Council Branch WA/B1055 @unite-cc-wa-b1055.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/... #heartunions
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Richard @richardwales.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Great opportunity here, please share with anyone you think may be interested. This is being offered to people from a Black African and/or Caribbean background, the team are also hoping to recruit Black heterosexual men. Share, share share!
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Positive Voices Speaker (Sessional Worker) | Terrence Higgins Trust
The Gilead Project The Terrence Higgins Trust is aiming to increase engagement in prevention and care, improve wellbeing, and reduce stigma towards people living with, and at risk of HIV, within Black...
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 07/02/2025
🚨NEW 🚨 On 22 January, GB News presenter Josh Howie repeated a homophobic slur linking the LGBTQ+ community to paedophilia. This is offensive, wrong and unlawful. Join us in writing a complaint to Ofcom to force them to take action 👇 t.co/3b5UH9zuOR
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Richard @richardwales.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Are you living with #HIV in the UK? We want to hear from you! Take @HIVOutcomes UK's survey to share your experiences with HIV charity services and enter to win a £50 Amazon voucher or McVitie’s hamper! Survey closes start of Feb: surveymonkey.com/r/RBCNPTM
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HIV Outcomes: People living with HIV utilising HIV voluntary services
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Unite Cardiff Council Branch WA/B1055 @unite-cc-wa-b1055.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Please sign and share: actionnetwork.org/forms/help-u...
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Help us put a stop to fire and rehire of workers at Oscar Mayer by signing our petition!
Oscar Mayer in Wrexham (owned by Pemberton Asset Management) is one of the UK’s major ready meal manufacturers and supplies large quantities of its products to many big supermarkets in the UK. The co...
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Fast Track Cymru @fasttrackcymru.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Shape the Future of #HIV Prevention in Wales! We need your views to make our #PrEP campaign impactful and tailored to your needs. 👇 Share your thoughts, it takes 2 minutes : forms.office.com/r/7ruc8nMdCu
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Richard @richardwales.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
fasttrack.wales/2024/12/30/2... #fasttrackcymru #yearinreview2024 #PrEP #21stcenturyHIV #HIV #cymru #wales #sexualhealth #education #curriculum
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Our Year in Review: Achievements of Fast Track Cymru in 2024
As 2024 draws to a close, we celebrate the incredible strides Fast Track Cymru and the regional Fast Track coalitions have made in our mission to achieve zero HIV transmissions in Wales by 2030 and…
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/12/2024
Lego introduces characters wearing hidden disability sunflower lanyard
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Lego introduces characters wearing hidden disability sunflower lanyard
Toy company says it hopes move will help everyone ‘embrace diversity, value inclusivity and remove stigma’ Lego is introducing several characters who wear sunflower lanyards to its brick universe for the first time to raise awareness of a badge worn to…
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Fast Track Cymru @fasttrackcymru.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Join us on Wed 11 December from 6:30pm - 7:30pm for an online HIV History event (free) during which Mark Etheridge will be discussing the history and significance of the 'Tree of Life' to mark 30 years since its planting on 1st December 1994 in Cardiff. 👇 fasttrack.wales/hiv-history-...
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Event: HIV History and the Tree of Life in Cardiff
Join Fast Track Cymru on Wednesday 11th December from 6:30pm – 7:30pm for a special online World Aids Day event, during which Mark Etheridge, Principal Curator of Collection Development. LGBT…
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Richard @richardwales.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Are you living with #HIV in #Wales? Register interest in a new pilot course starting in January: phw.nhs.wales/services-and... #PLWHIV #eppcymru #phw #WorldAIDSDay
phw.nhs.wales
Living with HIV
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Richard @richardwales.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
🗣️ Are you living with HIV in the UK? We want to hear from you! For @HIVOutcomes UK's research, please share your experiences with HIV charity services. Your input will help shape the future of HIV care in the UK. 🗓️ Deadline: 13 Dec 🔗 www.surveymonkey.com/r/RBCNPTM
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HIV Outcomes: People living with HIV utilising HIV voluntary services
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Richard @richardwales.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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Webinar: Negotiating for reasonable adjustments was issued by TUC to Richard Churcher.
Earners of the Webinar: Negotiating for reasonable adjustments digital credential are aware of what the social model of disability and reasonable adjustments are. They understand examples of reasonabl...
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Jason Reid @jasonreiduk.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
✍️ For World AIDS Day 2024 (today), I wrote about why a certain question needs to be totally expunged and made socially unacceptable. ▶️ Read my Metro piece here: metro.co.uk/2024/12/01/n...
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Fast Track Cymru @fasttrackcymru.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Today is #WorldAIDSDay. We stand united in the fight against #HIV, challenge stigma, and remember lives lost. HIV is not a death sentence. With treatment, people live long, healthy lives, and can’t pass it on. Together we will end stigma and HIV transmissions. #StopHIVStigma
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National AIDS Trust @nat.org.uk · 01/12/2024
Despite incredible advances made in the treatment of #HIV, there is still far too much stigma and misinformation surrounding the subject. Here are five facts about HIV which are vital to understanding this #WorldAIDSDay #UequalsU #CantPassItOn
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Richard @richardwales.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
World Aids Day is tomorrow. We have an opportunity to end new transmissions of HIV within a generation. Just watched a fabulous show on iPlayer: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... #amap #AskmeaboutPrEP #WorldAIDSDay #PrePforWomen
bbc.co.uk
And Me - HIV, PrEP and Me
Dan Harry from I Kissed a Boy explores how a drug that has contributed to a steep decline in HIV rates among gay and bi men could help end new HIV infections across the UK.
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Richard @richardwales.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
#access #accessibility The Reardon Smith Lecture Theatre has a viewing platform with six designated spaces for wheelchair users. Access to the Theatre is from the rear of the Visitor Car Park or via a level access pathway from Park Place. #neurodivergent
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Tom [PositiveLad] 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺 @positivelad.me · 19/11/2024
Fab to see more #HIV organisations joining Bluesky Shout-out to @appghiv.bsky.social, @hiv-i-base.bsky.social, @positiveeast.bsky.social & @positivelyuk.bsky.social I've added these & more to my two HIV & Sexual Health #StarterPacks Pack 1: go.bsky.app/FgETwkU Pack 2: go.bsky.app/Aewd8QP #HIVsky
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Richard @richardwales.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
#WorldAIDSday #HIV #Wales #Cardiff
DECEMBER 1ST 2024

Memorial Service 4pm
Reardon Smith Theatre
Park Place
CF10 3NP

Candlelit Vigil 5pm
Tree Of Life
Gorsedd Gardens
Cathays park

Please join us this World AIDS Day as we once again come together to celebrate commemorate and educate.
It's 30 years since the Tree Of Life was planted in Gorsedd Gardens and Mike Philips who planted the tree will be joining us on this special occasion.
We will have speakers and performers from THT Cymru, Fast Track Cities, Ysgol Gyfun Plasmawr and South Wales Gay Men's Chorus amongst others. We will also be showing the Iris Prize winning film by WNO, "Tair llythyren/Three Letters".
Following the event there will be a lantern lit procession to the Tree Of Life where attendees will hang red ribbons and observe a minute's silence.
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Fast Track Cymru @fasttrackcymru.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
🌍❤️ Last night, we marked #WorldAIDSDay at Senedd Cymru with powerful speeches from people living with #HIV, a reaffirmed commitment to the #HIVActionPlan for Wales by the Cab Secretary, & support from Fast Track Cymru regional coalitions. Together we’ll end stigma & new HIV transmissions.
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Richard @richardwales.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
#worldaidsday #cardiff #wales #treeoflife
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POZ Magazine @pozmagazine.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Live to Tell: Madonna continues to uplift the #HIV community, as she has done since the early days of #AIDS. www.poz.com/article/mado...
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Live to Tell
Madonna continues to uplift the HIV community, as she has done since the early days of AIDS.
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Richard @richardwales.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
#WalesHIVtestingweek #U=U #cantpassiton
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Fast Track Cymru @fasttrackcymru.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
HIV Testing in Wales is: ✅Free ✅Easy ✅Confidential ✅Life saving Order your HIV test now at hivtest.wales/social #WalesHIVTestingWeek -- ✅ Am ddim ✅ Hawdd ✅ Cyfrinachol ✅ Yn achub bywydau Diogelwch eich hun ac eraill trwy archebu eich prawf HIV heddiw: prawfhiv.cymru/cymsocial
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Richard @richardwales.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
And they’re free in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 at friskywales.org
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on HIV, AIDS & Sexual Health @appghiv.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
It's #WalesHIVTestingWeek #WythnosProfiHIVCymru! #HIV testing is self-care. Knowing your status takes away the uncertainty and worry, giving you peace of mind and control over your health. It’s a simple step that helps protect shwales.online/wales-sti-test…
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Brother Huw Jorgan @brotherhuwjorgan.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Know your status!! A free HIV test kit can be delivered straight to your front door if you live in Wales. Get yours today; hivtest.wales/social Together we can end new cases of HIV. #walesHIVtestingweek #knowyourstatus #hiv #endthestigma
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Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival @irisprize.org · 20/11/2024
Shwmae! 👋 We are Iris Prize, a LGBTQ+ Film Festival with the largest short film prize in the world! Based in Cardiff, we work throughout the year on a number of projects as well as the festival which takes place annually in October
Graphic for Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival, with logo reading this at the top. The text below reads "The 19th Edition of Iris Prize LGBTQ+ Film Festival/Gŵyl Ffilm LHDTQ+ Gwobr Iris, Cardiff Oct 13-19 Hyd 2025 Caerdydd" followed by an Iris heart logo.
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Richard @richardwales.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Take charge of your health 💪 Did you know that HIV test kits can be delivered straight to your door in Wales? It’s quick, confidential, and key to living a happy, healthy life 🌟 Get yours today: hivtest.wales/social #WalesHIVTestingWeek
An animated image of a hand holding a finger prick blood test tool, the hand is changing ethnicities and genders.  The text reads the most important home delivery you can get.  Order your confidential home test kit now
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