Pride Resources

The sun was shining, the scene was a glorious array of colourful rainbows and the
atmosphere was embracingly joyous when a community of LGBTQ+ and allies
came together in celebration and support over two days for Pride Cymru. After
waiting two years since last attending this event due the pandemic, the All Wales
Tissue Viability Nurses Forum, along with the All Wales Lymphoedema Network,
and TVN2gether returned on the 27th and 28th August 2022 to celebrate diversity
in the Welsh capital by supporting LGBTQ+ rights.

After two years of waiting because of the Covid-19 pandemic, TVNs from Wales, and
the UK, and the All Wales Lymphoedema Network are coming together again and
attending the Pride Cymru’s Big Weekend raising awareness in lower limb care.
This event is Wales’s biggest celebration of equality and diversity, over two days
hosting over 50,000 people in the Welsh capital to celebrate the LGBT+ community.
Following on from the massive success and pleasure of TVNs from Wales and the
UK attending Pride Cymru’s Big Weekend in 2019, this year’s #CelebrateYourLegs
is going to be BIGGER and BETTER than ever before. The All Wales Tissue Viability
Nurse Forum, along with the All Wales Lymphoedema Network, TVN2gether
and supported by JCN, Wound Care Today and industry partners, are joining the
parade and attending over the weekend of 27–28th August to champion not only
the important Pride message, but also to raise awareness of lower limb issues to the
LGBT+ community and their allies. Here, we ask Julie Evans, lead tissue viability
nurse at Powys Teaching Health Board, about Pride and the All Wales Tissue Viability
Nurse Forum’s involvement.

Considered Wales’s biggest celebration of equality and diversity, over three days Pride Cymru hosted over 50,000 people in the Welsh capital to celebrate the LGBT+ community. This year, the All Wales Tissue Viability Nurse Forum, along with the Legs Matter campaign and TVN2gether and supported by JCN, Wound Care Today and industry partners, joined the parade on the 24th August to champion not only the cause, but also to raise awareness of lower limb issues by wearing rainbow-coloured stockings. Here, Julie Evans, tissue viability nurse at Swansea Bay University Health Board, talks about Pride and the All Wales Tissue Viability Nurse Forum’s involvement.