We are excited to announce that our brand new 2019 t-shirts featuring this year’s Brighton Bear Weekend logo are now on sale in our online shop and at the Prowler store in Brighton. They are available in navy blue and red at the same price as last year, just £14 each.
Check out this Gscene article about our new logo and its designer, local artist Richard Denne.
Here are the photos from our Christmas Quiz at the Camelford Arms on 20 December 2018. A number of lucky attendees won fantastic prizes in our festive raffle, including a large bouquet of goodies kindly donated by Chris Sarson. The winning quiz team, Three Unwise Men, sadly missed out on the £300 star prize, but went home with a big box of chocolate bars instead!
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Here are the photos from our Jingle Bears night on Saturday 8 December 2018. This event raised a marvellous £370.00 for the Rainbow Fund.
Many thanks to Steve and the hard-working crew at Subline, to Jack Lynn for taking the photos, and to everyone who came and had a wonderful time!
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The photos from our Brighton Bear Christmas Bear-a-oke evening on 8 December 2018 are now up! This fantastic evening raised £330.94 for the Rainbow Fund.
Huge thanks to our fabulous hosts, Jon B and Candi Rell, and to the staff at Bar Broadway for their hard work and generous donation.
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We are overjoyed to announce that the grand total raised by our three Christmas events in December 2018 is £1054.77. As always, this amount will count towards our annual total donation to the Rainbow Fund.
The three events were Bear-a-oke at Bar Broadway on 8 December (£330.94 raised), Jingle Bears at Subline on the same night (£370.00), and our Christmas Quiz at the Camelford Arms on 20 December (£353.83).
Many, many thanks to everyone who made this possible: all of you who came to our events and kindly donated so much; to the bar owners and staff who worked so hard and made such generous donations; to Jon B and Candi Rell who hosted Bear-a-oke with great talent and enthusiasm; and to all of the raffle prize donors, especially Chris Sarson who gave us the amazing star prize of a gift basket.
You have all been wonderful, and we look forward to seeing you again in 2019!
It’s that time of year again – the great big A Very Beary Christmas weekend, proudly presented by us together with Bear Patrol, is upon us once more! Three fun events await you:
As always, the profits from all events will benefit the Rainbow Fund. So get your worst Christmas jumper on and join the festivities!
A wonderful time was had by all at Dine With The Stars last night (Thursday 18 October), culminating with the auction of our unclaimed top raffle prize from Brighton Bear Weekend, Master Tom. This beautiful art piece, based on the work of Tom of Finland, went for an astonishing £2100 after a frenzy of bidding. This sum will benefit Brighton and Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum. Congratulations to Diane Horan Hill of Heart & Soul for her most generous winning bid!
We would once again like to thank Jamie Durrant of the Strange Case Company, who created Master Tom, for his exceptionally kind donation. We also thank David Pollikett, Billie Lewis, everyone else who helped to organise the event, the many stars of entertainment who donated their time, and the generous guests who donated so much money.
On the evening of 15 October 2018, at this year’s Rainbow Fund grant awards ceremony at the Hilton Brighton Metropole, we presented a grant of £18,500 to Brighton & Hove LGBT Switchboard. This grant will allow their continued support of the Rainbow Café for LGBTQ people with dementia or memory loss, as well as a new service for LGBTQ people experiencing bereavement.
Afterwards, we sat down with Brighton and Hove’s Mayor Dee Simson, who works tirelessly to support many local charities and other causes. She’s pictured below with most of the Brighton Bear Weekend committee, including several new members.
We have always proudly supported the Rainbow Fund, with all profits from our events going to them and other local charities. Last year, our fundraising total from all our events was £10,060. So when you’re having fun at Brighton Bear Weekend, you’re doing it for a good cause too!
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The annual Brighton Bear Halloween party returns with Night of The Living Zombears 2 at Subline on Saturday 27 October. The frightening fun will start at 10:00pm and continue until the coffin lids shut!
This spook-tacular night is always busy with many coming in costume, from the mad to the wonderful, so let your imagination go wild! We will be giving away prizes for the best dressed, including a £50 Moodybear gift card, a £20 Nice ‘n’ Naughty gift card, and brunch for two with bubbles at Trading Post Coffee Roasters.
DJ Screwpulous will give you his monster beats to fling yourself around the bear pit to. Explore the catacombs, where mysterious moaning and groaning will give you the willies! We will be giving away free shots of spirits and treats to all those who brave the stairs down into the creepy crypt of Subline.
As always, we will be proudly supporting the Rainbow Fund, which gives out grants to small community groups for frontline services and to local HIV/AIDS charities. Entry is £5 for Subline members and £7 for non-members.
If you’re planning to be there, please check out this event’s 
Facebook page and indicate that you are attending. Thanks, and see you there!
We are excited to announce that next year’s Brighton Bear Weekend will run from Thursday 13 to Sunday 16 June 2019.
We will once again have a full programme of fun events, which will be announced here soon. As always, we are proudly supporting the Rainbow Fund, which gives grants to small local LGBTQ+ community groups and local HIV/AIDS charities. So now is the time to book your hotels, flights and trains – and most importantly, book Monday 17 June off work!
Check out the Facebook event page, and please click Going if you’re planning to attend. We can’t wait to see you!