COVID-19 Resources
Uploaded: May 2020
Last updated: 18/01/22
Here you'll find a whole host of resources and guidance (and some things to do to fight the boredom that can go hand-in-hand with self-isolation), split by category. We hope it's of some help to you.
Jump to section:
- 📁Trans-specific and LGBTQ+ resources
- 📁Partying (at a distance!)
- 📁Self care
- 📁Help for You
- 📁Helping others
- 📁Giving to others
- 📁Emotional support
- 📁Chill, distract, relax
- └📁Cooking
- └📁Craft
- └📁Culture
- └📁Culture/reading
- └📁Gaming
- └📁Health
- └📁Learning
- └📁Mental wellbeing
- └📁Reading
- 📁Useful Resources
- 📁Reliable Information
- 📁Staying in touch
Trans-specific and LGBTQ+ resources

Name | Organisation | Description | Link |
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Community organisations transitioning to online support | Gendered Intelligence | Other LGBTQ+ orgs that are moving services online | 🔗Link here |
Quarantine strategies in non-accepting environments | them. | With input from queer therapists and experts | 🔗Link here |
Monthly Online Therapeutic Support Group | Narratives of Us | A friendly, open, drop-in therapeutic support group, which hopes to run monthly, online for 1.5 hours, for trans non-binary and gender expansive folk anywhere in the world, aged 18+ | 🔗Link here |
Trans resources in the capital | Voices4 London | Including emergency funds and mutual aid links | 🔗Link here | Trans resilience in isolation | Galop | Guide with ideas around maintaining wellbeing during social distancing, isolation and quarantine | 🔗Link here |
Partying (at a distance!)

Name | When | Description | Link | Queer House Party | Every Friday night - 9pm-1am | Does exactly what it says on the tin. 18+ space. We spoke about it here | 🔗Link here |
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Self-care

Name | Organisation | Description | Link |
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Why you should ignore all that coronavirus-inspired productivity | Chronicle.com | Article | 🔗Link here |
Together, Apart | Consent Collective | Learning from the sexual violence sector on surviving isolation | 🔗Link here |
Reframing COVID-19 | Eco Green Love | Don’t be put off by the name – this illustration is quite powerful | 🔗Link here |
Hell Yeah self care zine | MJ Barker | A great resource at any time, particularly useful now | 🔗Link here |
Winter Support Hub | Sabah Choudrey | A cosy winter support hub, with crisis links, gender dysphoria first aid and trans memes. Built with queer, trans, people of colour youth in mind | 🔗Link here |
Help for You

Group name | What they do | How they can help | Link |
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Bloody Good Period | Sanitation/menstruation support | Supply menstruation products to people who cannot access them elsewhere | 🔗Link here |
COVID mutual aid | List of all locally organised mutual aid groups in the UK | If you are quarantined or self isolating and need food or medicine or someone to talk to your local group can help - this website will help you find your local group | 🔗Link here |
DOTS | Homelessness support | if you are homeless they can supply food, are running hand cleaning stations, as well provideing vetinary care and dog food for your dog | 🔗Link here |
FTM London | Advice/support for transmasculine people in London | Monthly, online support meetings | 🔗Link here | Galop | LGBT anti-violence service - hate crime, domestic abuse, intimate person violence, sexual violence | can help you if you are experiencing violence and want advice or support | 🔗Link here |
Gendered Intelligence | Trans youth work | hosting digital youth groups for young trans people | 🔗Link here |
Homerton Hub | Emotional support | can help you find emotional support in your area | 🔗Link here |
JoinGroupChat | Mutual aid / community support | Connect people through WhatsApp group chat, mutual aid in your local community | 🔗Link here | Learnest | digital mentoring for LGBT people | The Learnest team are currently delivering FREE online mentoring sessions to LGBT+ people.They will prioritise those in quarantine due to vulnerabilities to COVID-19., including advice for neurodiverse people who rely on daily routines to help keep stable and well! | 🔗Link here |
LGBT Switchboard | listening service run by LGBT+ people | Emotional support if you need to speak to someone confidentially | 🔗Link here | Maytree | Emotional support | there to listen if you need emotional support | 🔗Link here |
Mind | Mental health support | Mind have a section of their webpage specifically on wellbeing during COVID-19 | 🔗Link here |
Mutual Aid | organising group offering mutual aid | fun activities, community, linking you up with people in your area who can help with tasks or who need help with tasks | 🔗Link here |
Portal Bookshop | Voices4 London | Will send trans youth who are struggling being in unaccepting families a copy of Trans Teens Survival Guide for free | 🔗Link here |
Renters' union | Renters' rights group | Many of us are going to end up on reduced hours or losing jobs, which can make paying rent difficult and put our homes at risk. This union will help you fight for your rights if the worse does happen | Please search for your local group online |
Samaritans | Emotional support | there to listen if you need emotional support | 🔗Link here |
Stonewall Housing | Housing advice and support | Advice and guidance around homelessness and domestic violence for LGBTQ People | 🔗Link here |
Streets Kitchen | Homelessness support | Grassroots group working to help the homeless community, providing daily outreaches with food, clothing and information that benefits our streets. | 🔗Link here |
Trussell Trust | Food bank | Find the nearest food bank to you | 🔗Link here |
Worker support group | A Facebook group to support and organise workers during the epidemic | advice, emotional support, organising community actions | 🔗Link here |
Helping others

Activity | Description | Link |
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Delivering resources - to at risk people | Here is how to deliver items to people in a way that reduces the risk of also passing on the virus | 🔗Link here | Delivering resources - to infected people | Here is how to deliver items to people in a way that reduces the risk of catching the virus | 🔗Link here | Disinfecting | If you plan to give tinned food, toiletries or any physical object to someone who is at risk you will need to disinfect it. Here is how to | 🔗Link here | Leafleting | If you plan to give out leaflets letting neighbours know we are here to help its important to do this in a way that reduces the risk of infection from leaflets | 🔗Link here | Prescription Collection | How to pick up and deliver prescriptions to at risk or ill people | 🔗Link here | Protocol | Principles and assumptions for doing support actions during an epidemic | 🔗Link here | Protocol | Policy for doing support actions during an epidemic | 🔗Link here | Running a zoom meeting | Not all mutual aid is about giving physical things to people. Isolation and loneliness is a big issue too. Running social drop ins, skill sharing and playing games together is important for everyones mental wellbeing. A zoom group is an easy way to have group meetings | 🔗Link here |
Giving to others

Who | What | Why | What do they need | Where |
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Bloody Good Period | Sanitation support | Supply sanitary products to people who cannot access them elsewhere | Donations | 🔗Link here | Covid Mutual Aid | List of all locally organised mutual aid groups in the UK | It is important to look out for others in our communities through self organising | Volunteers | 🔗Link here | Covid19 Hardship Fund for marginalised LGBTQIA+ folks – London Bi Pandas | Hardship fund for marginalised LGBTQIA+ folks | In this global pandemic, Covid19 is going to disproportionately impact marginalise LGBTQIA+ people in particular. | Donations | 🔗Link here | DOTS | Homelessness support | Most homeless shetlers will not take dogs so homeless people with dogs often have no way off the streets leaving them vulnerable to an epidemic. DOTS are running hand cleaning stations for homeless people and giving them food, as well providing vetinary care and dog food for homeless people with dogs. | Donations | 🔗DOTS Twitter 🔗DOTS website |
Gendered Intelligence | Support to trans young people and their families | The 1000s of young trans and gender diverse people Gendered Intelligence works to provide solace and solidarity for are now stuck at home without access to our in-person youth groups. For many of them, home is the tricky place, with no support. | Donations | 🔗Link here | London LGBTIQ+ COVID19 Mutual Aid | Organising group offering mutual aid | Find out who is in need of assistance in your local area | Volunteers | 🔗Link here | Made in Hackney | Free food for communities | Made in Hackney is a group that makes sure people in Hackney have access to healthy, affordable food that’s good for people and planet. They have closed their kitchens and will be delivering food and supplies to people in need. | Donations and potentially food | 🔗Link here | The Outside Project | Homelessness and LGBT community support | 1 in 4 homeless people are LGBT in England, yet there is only one LGBT homeless shetler in the UK: the outside project in London. They are running online community drop ins and actvities. As well as providing beds/rooms, food and sanitary products to LGBT homeless people in London | Donations - money | 🔗Link here | Rent Strike 2020 | Renters rights group | Many of us are going to end up on reduced hours or losing jobs. While the PM is giving landlords breaks on paying their mortgages we are still supposed to pay our rent. This isnt fair and will leave people at risk of homelessness we need to fight for fairness and equality for the working classes as we are being exploited by landlords | Sign petition | 🔗Link here | Renters union | Renters rights group | Many of us are going to end up on reduced hours or losing jobs, which can make paying rent difficult and put our homes at risk. This union will help you fight for your rights if the worse does happen. | Members | 🔗London Renters Union Twitter 🔗London Renters Union website |
Street Kitchen | Homelessness and Free food for communities | Grassroots group working to help the homeless community, providing daily outreaches with food, clothing and information that benefits our streets. Need volunteers and supplies | Donations | 🔗Streets Kitchen Twitter 🔗Streets Kitchen website |
Trans Grocery Fund | Fund for trans & non-binary people living around Glasgow. This fund is crowd-sourced, for redistribution to trans people who are struggling due to coronavirus/work instability | In response to the coronavirus outbreak leading to work instability, Small Trans Library Glasgow has created a small groceries & supplies fund for trans people in Scotland who are out of work or struggling | Donations | 🔗Link here | UK QTIBIPOC Emergency Relief & Hardship Fund | Short term support to Queer, Trans and Intersex, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (QTIBIPOC) currently living in the UK who are affected by the outbreak and ongoing shutdown caused by Covid-19. | “For many in our communities, COVID-19 is only making worse what it already means to live as queer people of colour in Britain.” “COVID-19, and the attendant lockdowns and policies, will disproportionately impact Black women, our elders, immigrants, refugees and people of colour in ways we all know too well already.-- UK Black Pride | Donations | 🔗Link here |
Emotional support

Group name | What they do | How they can help | Link |
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Homerton Hub | Emotional support | They can help you find emotional support in your area | 🔗Link here |
Maytree Emotional support | Emotional support | They are there to listen if you need emotional support | 🔗Link here |
Mind | Mental Health Support | Mind have a section of their webpage specifically on wellbeing during COVID-19 | 🔗Link here |
Samaritans | Emotional support | They are there to listen if you need emotional support | 🔗Link here |
Chill, distract, relax

This will have resources put in for people to enjoy and/or distract themselves as this is still important!
Activity | Type | Link |
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How to bake bread in a slow cooker on a budget | Cooking | 🔗Link here | How to pickle vegetables | Cooking | 🔗Link here | Free art lessons | Craft | 🔗Link here | Learn to knit | Craft | 🔗Link here | Zine making tutorials | Craft | 🔗Link here | Black trans archive | Culture | 🔗Link here | Concerts - Berliner Philharmoniker digital concert hall is streaming concerts, orchestras and operas for free | Culture | 🔗Link here | Digital Soane Museum - virtual museum tour | Culture | 🔗Link here | Digital Transgender Archives - look via the map for amazing free digital materials of trans + GNC material | Culture | 🔗Link here | Free queer films online | Culture | 🔗Link here | Magnum Photos Archive, including articles | Culture | 🔗Link here | Online Art Events | Culture | 🔗Link here | Opera - Metropolitan Opera House is streaming for free an opera each evening | Culture | 🔗Link here | Portal to materials / articles on black history | Culture | 🔗Link here | Wellcome Library Digital Collections | Culture | 🔗Link here | New York Public Libraries Digital Collection - including Pride photos | Culture / Reading | 🔗Link here | Queer Zine Archive Project - digitised queer zines to read online! | Culture / Reading | 🔗Link here | POC Zine Project - free digitised zines by POC | Culture / Reading | 🔗Link here | Free D&D workshops | Gaming | 🔗Link here | Make your own Games with Twine. Free program. Also has rich queer history (see Porpentine's twine games) | Gaming | 🔗Link here | High Intensity Interval Workout in Drag (you don't have to be in drag if you don't want to but the instructor is) | Health | 🔗Link here | Live Kickboxing Group Lessons | Health | 🔗Link here | The Soule Collective Free online yoga and meditation | Health | 🔗Link here | Cambridge Core have made 700 of higher education textbooks in HTML format free to access online during the coronavirus outbreak. | Learning | 🔗Link here | Free online college/uni courses | Learning | 🔗Link here | Learn how to code for website creation | Learning | 🔗Link here | Skillshare Classes | Learning | 🔗Link here | Head space - covid specific mental wellbeing | Mental Wellbeing | 🔗Link here | A list of webcams you can access to watch cute animals if you are feeling like you want to see something other than your flat walls | Mental Wellbeing | 🔗Link here | Online laughter clubs | Mental Wellbeing | 🔗Link here | Free audiobooks from Audible | Reading | 🔗Link here | Free ebooks + e-audiobooks from your public library. In the UK they will use Borrowbox, Overdrive or Libby. If you have an existing library account you can sign in with these details on the apps and see what they have available. If you don't have a membership, a lot will take sign-up online. You can then read books and listen to audiobooks in-app (unfortunately, not on Kindles that aren't also tablets) | Reading | 🔗Link here 🔗Link here 🔗Link here |
Free ebooks from Haymarket books | Reading | 🔗Link here | Free ebooks from Verso | Reading | 🔗Link here | LibraryThing - now free | Reading | 🔗Link here | Scribd - free one month trail | Reading | 🔗Link here |
Useful Resources

Name | Type | Information | Link | Freelance resource lists | Resources | List of resources and where to go for help for people working in the freelance industry | 🔗Link here | Inclusivity – Support BAME Trans People | Resources | This guide on inclusive practices & guidance is particularly relevant now that the pandemic is exposing injustices more than ever. | 🔗Link here | NANHA Resources for the Elderly and Families | Resources | A list of covid-19 resources for children, young people and elderly from the National Association of Nursing Home Attorneys. | 🔗Link here | Which Free Resources | Resources | News and advice on COVID-19, from protecting yourself and your loved ones to the financial support on offer and how to shop safely | 🔗Link here |
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Reliable Information

Name | Information type | Link | BBC Reality Check | Evaluates and debunks common misinformation | 🔗Link here | Corona Virus Information Center | Information on corona virus | 🔗Link here | Corona Virus Simulator - Washington Post | Information on how to slow the spread of covid19 and how this will save lives | 🔗Link here | Corona Virus Tech Handbook | Collating resources for support and information | 🔗Link here | Covid19 International Media Brief | Global perspective of media portrayal of epidemic | 🔗Link here | Doctors without borders | Latest updates on global situation | 🔗Link here | Full Fact | Evaluates and debunks common misinformation | 🔗Link here | University of Leeds COVID19 tracking | Graph showing daily updates of cases in UK and outcomes | 🔗Link here | World Health Organisation | Information, research, guidance, news | 🔗Health Topics 🔗Advice for public |
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Staying in touch

Our youth groups here at Gendered Intelligence are moving online - see our page here for more information.
Our support line is still running as normal!