This is our first big event outside the LGBTQ+ Community Centre, our first ever evening and weekday event and our first big official match-making event!
Thanks to the generosity of coworking space Second Home, the venue is taking place in this luxurious futuristic space where we can watch the sun set over London together. There will be free soft drinks.
The current running order is as follows:
6-6.15pm: arrive, chit-chat with QPCP volunteers and between yourselves.
6.20-6.30: short introduction to what we do as a group, what our aims are and what tonight's event is about.
6.30-7pm: “Planning for co-parenting - agreements and disagreements,” a talk given by a highly regarded barrister in family law and someone with a deep understanding of the specific challenges faced by LGBTQ+ parents. The barrister will be talking about parental rights and rights of the child in the context of queer platonic coparenting, as well as other family configurations.
7-7.30: Q&A with legal experts and members of the QPCP volunteer team.
7.30-9pm: Matchmaking event and mixer.
If you want to attend the matchmaking part of the event, please fill out this form. You will not be matched with anyone if you do not submit a form by the 22nd June. Your form will be read by QPCP volunteers (likely Leo) who will make individual timetables for the evening for each participant. You will then be matched with people for whatever purposes you state on the form, and we'll share what you have in common with each other. Please do not fill out a form if you're not sure you'll come as I'll be putting lots of free hours into making this work for everyone.
If you just want to attend the general mixer, you do not need to fill out the form.
WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY INFO: The building is wheelchair accessible, though we've been told it's not the smoothest ramp and it's the back entrance. There are elevators and disabled toilets in the building. If you are a wheelchair user and it's helpful or just reassuring to coordinate your arrival time, please email queerplatoniccoparenting@gmail.com.