Chesil Youth Pride

Chesil Youth Pride
Saturday 28th June 2025.

LOADS of stalls & events at Weymouth College from midday. Pride Parade along Weymouth Esplanade 4 / 4.30pm

Reports & pics below from Chesil Youth Pride at Weymouth College 2024 & 2023, Plus their Pride Parade along the Esplanade!

Date         2025:- Saturday 28th June
                 2024:- Saturday 29th June
Venue:-    Weymouth College Cranford Ave, Weymouth DT4 7LQ
Phone      01305 761100 (Weymouth College)
email          [email protected]
website    https://www.weymouth.ac.uk/events/chesil-youth-pride/
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Please note:-
Adults wishing to join the 2025 Parade should gather at The Jubilee Clock from 4pm, and are most welcomed to join the end of the parade.
Esplande Hotels & Guest houses are encoraged to display Rainbow Pride flags, which have already been given out to many.

Chesil Youth Pride 2025 - call for helpers / support (posted here 25/10/2024)
From Dorset Council newsletter

Dorset Council are looking for support from the local community to help deliver Chesil Youth Pride 2025.

Now in its third year, Chesil Youth Pride is a youth-led, family event that celebrates Dorset’s LGBTQ+ young people in Weymouth and Portland and beyond.

Dorset Council is looking for support from the local community and from voluntary organisations who would like to proactively help in the planning and running of Chesil Youth Pride 2025. Volunteers will join a working group, made up of Dorset Council employees and partners. We are also looking for support from local businesses who might be interested in sponsoring the event.

Chesil Youth Pride was created after the council received feedback from young people, saying that they felt unsafe in their communities and that they wanted a ‘safe space’ to be themselves. Last year’s event saw over 200 young people and their family, friends, and allies attend a stall event at Weymouth College, with many going on to join a celebrative group parade along Weymouth’s Esplanade. Feedback from young people over the last two years has been unanimously positive with one young person saying the event was “a perfect day” and a “wonderful and inclusive place,” while another said the event allowed them to “have fun and support their friends.”

Cllr Clare Sutton, Dorset Council Cabinet Member for Children's Services, Education and Skills said:
“Chesil Youth Pride is about ensuring all young people in Dorset feel a sense of belonging, safety and inclusion, and have fun at the same time. We are looking for community organisations to join the project group and to help deliver something really special for Dorset’s LGBTQ+ young people. If this sounds like something you would like to be a part of, we’d love to hear from you.”

To find out more and offer your support, please contact [email protected]

Read more about Chesil Youth Pride 2024 here
See also our Chesil Youth Pride page below.
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Chesil Youth Pride Saturday 29th June 2024.
12pm at Weymouth College 4:30pm group parade along the Esplanade

Back for its second year. Info stalls at Weymouth College and with the Parade along the Esplanade - which had over 200 people taking part this year.

This Pride is very much a young persons focused event, and provides information stalls supporting young LGBTQ+ people.
The theme for Chesil Youth Pride 2024 is Intersectionality and the tag line is See Me!

They said: -
Chesil Youth Pride is back! Join us on Saturday 29 June to celebrate Dorset's LGBTQ+ youth community.
Live music, Pride-based activities, a fun photo booth, key speaker, food and stalls. 12pm, Weymouth College
4:30pm group parade 6pm finish at Weymouth Pavilion

You can read a report about this years (2024) Chesil Youth Pride here -
https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/news/celebrating-dorset-s-lgbtq-youth-community

Dorset Echo report about 2024 Chesil Youth Pride see:-
https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/24444607.celebrating-dorsets-lgbtq-youth-chesil-youth-pride/

You can read a report about last years (2023) Chesil Youth Pride here -
https://news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/2023/06/22/chesil-youth-pride-2023-celebrating-dorsets-lgbtqi-young-people/

“Why have a Youth Pride? I don’t think it’s for adults?”
(posted first on The Dorset LGBT Community News page 29/06/2024)

“Why have a Youth Pride? I don’t think it’s for adults?”
We heard someone say.

Saturday 29th June was a lovely summers day, blue skies and plenty of sunshine as we walked upto Weymouth College, the host for the second Chesil Youth Pride. (Click on pic right to enlarge)

A beautiful rainbow crossing greeted us, along with the Rainbow flag flying high outside the college entrance.

Around 30 stalls arranged around the grounds gave visitors plenty to look at, and for young people lots of activities too. While inside Key Speaker Helen Gould, a Diverse, Equitable & Inclusive trainer gave a supportive talk about understanding your feelings to the young audience.

Click on above pic to enlarge

Back outside we were able to catch up with many of our LGBT+ friends running the stalls there. Our Dorset LGBT+ Family!

These included Mel with Pop n Olly, Charity with Space Youth Project, Anabelle & Debs with This is Me, Brian & Rich with NHS Sexual Health. So wonderful to see our Jonai back in action at Pride! With his NHS Mental Health stall.
Brill also to meet all the b-side arts team from Portland too!

Also present where stalls from The National Trust, Weymouth Town Council and various Youth focused groups

As we came away and walked down to Weymouth’s Jubilee Clock to see the Pride Parade along Weymouths esplanade, we kept thinking about how lucky we all are to have such a supportive Family - Dorset LGBT+ Family!

While we waited for the Parade on the Esplanade, a guy came and joined us, clearly also waiting for the procession to pass, dressed in rainbow colours. We got chatting – "I’m here to support my daughter who has transgender friends at school – they are in the parade. I am here to support her, and them. I am so happy to do so".

Thats beautiful we said to him!

….. and that is one answer as to why we have Youth Prides and supportive adults are invited too!

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A note about Pride events in Weymouth (posted here 25/07/2023)

Chesil Youth Pride - a new Pride event took place in June 2023 at Weymouth College, with a super first for Weymouth - a Pride Parade along the Esplanade! See below for reports and pics.

Pub Pride took place at a Wyke Regis Pub in Weymouth during 2023, and at The Waterloo Pub Weymouth during 2022. See our Dorset Pub Pride page here :- https://weymouthgaygroup.weebly.com/dorset-pub-prides.html

Weymouth & Portland Pride. It has been a dream of many locally for Weymouth to have a Pride event and this first became a reality in 2019. Organised by Jamie and his team from The Closet Bar, it took place in Radipole Park. It is unknown if it will return. See our Weymouth & Portland Pride page here:- https://weymouthgaygroup.weebly.com/weymouth--portland-pride.html

** Dorset enjoyed a record number of Pride events during 2023 - SIX in total! **
More Dorset Pride info - https://weymouthgaygroup.weebly.com/pride-events.htm
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If you like Youth Prides - you might also so like:-

Dorset Youth Pride - at Shire Hall Dorchester - was FAB! Did you go? Did you miss it? Please to say that Dorset Youth Pride will run again in 2024. It ran for the first time in 2022. See our Dorset Youth Pride page here: - https://weymouthgaygroup.weebly.com/dorset-youth-pride.html
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Chesil Youth Pride 2023

New for LGBT+ young people this year (2023) has been Chesil Youth Pride. Organised by staff from Dorset Council and Space Youth Project, with Weymouth College being a great hosting site. This took place on 17th June, a week after the Youth Pride in Dorchester. Like Dorset Youth Pride, this new Pride event was very much focused on providing a fun and supportive day out for young people. Several organisations offering support for today’s LGBT+ youth had stalls there.

The highlight of the day was the FIRST EVER Pride parade along the Prom! - Weymouth’s esplanade. This has been a dream of the local LGBT community for many years, so a HUGE thanks to all at Chesil Youth Pride for making this happen!

Unfortunately, as Weymouth Gay Group (WGG) is a very informal group (our guys like it that way) we could not have an info stall at Chesil Youth Pride as we don’t have public liability insurance – an issue that has cropped up at other events we would like to be embraced by and welcomed at within the local Dorset LGBT community. It would have been brill if two or more of our WGG guys carried our bannor in the Pride Parade. Perhaps next year?

Chesil Youth Pride - first pics (posted first on our news page 17/06/2023 updated 22/06/2023)

Here are a few pics from today's first Chesil Youth Pride.
(Note we asked all stall holders for permission to take a pic of their stall, saying we would like to use it here)

If you have pics of the day that you (and those in it) are happy to share particularly of the Parade, we would love to post them here. email [email protected]

You can read a very good Dorset Council report of the day here - https://news.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/2023/06/22/chesil-youth-pride-2023-celebrating-dorsets-lgbtqi-young-people/

You can see a short video of the day here (By Youth in Dorset) - https://www.instagram.com/reel/CtmucEno7QC/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igshid=Y2Q0NmNiMjc3NQ%3D%3D

(Photo above with thanks to Dorset LGBT+ Voices Forum)