Welcome

Welcome, one and all, to our Microcosm of Acceptance: a dynamic club for disabled people determined to enjoy their lives to the full.

What we do:

we offer personal peer support, encouragment, privacy and respect
we work together to create social events, workshops and campaigns
we take what we learn from our members to inform and advise health and social care professionals.

The Outsiders Club has hundreds of members all over the UK and some abroad. We welcome new people. Our members have all kinds of physical and social impairments. They all have the capacity to handle their own affairs.

We run the Sex and Disability Helpline from 11am until 7pm weekdays on 07770 884 985 email sexdis@Outsiders.org.uk. Calls are taken from both disabled people and health care professionals.

We also run SHADA, the Sexual Health and Disability Alliance, which has meetings twice a year in London. We have created the Sexual Respect Tool Kit.

Whenever possible, Outsiders works together with other groups to address the sexual isolation faced by many disabled people, and frustration which results, and to campaign for the acceptance of disabled people as sexual partners.

See our latest Annual Report here.

Latest news:
SHADA issues Press Release on latest “Sex in Care Home” Scandal
Dr Tuppy Owens spoke about East Sussex County Council policy towards a residential home for disabled adults, Chaseley Trust, after national newspaper coverage concerning the use of sex workers at the home.
Read the SHADA Press Release (in PDF format) about the case.

Recent success

Sexual Freedom Day for Disabled People

Outsiders' Annual Gathering

Social event to celebrate our love of life,
our bodies, & our passions was held
at the Doodle Bar, Battersea London SW11

Full details (if you missed it) here

Outsiders
Support Network

Caroline Bowditch

My life was changed in 1991
when I attended a workshop
run by an amazing woman,
Elizabeth Hastings.
The workshop was called
‘Developing a presence
in the presence of others’.
It taught me so much
and I feel that Outsiders provides
the same life-changing experiences.
Elizabeth went on to become
Australia's first
Disability Discrimination Commissioner.

Caroline

Outsiders works with

Awards

In 2004 this website received a National Information Forum Award for providing “a substantial amount of information presented in a sensitive way”.