At Switchboard we embrace and support people in and across our LGBTIQA+ communities who have various beliefs, practices, and feelings when it comes to issues of faith and religion. This is extended not only to those who use our services but into our membership, staffing, volunteers and Board members.

At Switchboard we have service users, general members, staff, volunteers, and Board members who attend places of worship, have a daily practice, observe days of religious significance and who consider themselves a person of faith. Equally we have people who have a non-defined spirituality, consider themselves agnostic, atheist or strongly opposed and also many who have been rejected and/or who reject religion. Some people have been the survivors of conversion practices and institutional abuse.

At Switchboard we strongly believe it is our role to hold space for this diversity in all its complexity and richness and to fundamentally meet people where they stand and support them to live their authentic self.

Switchboard is here to learn from, listen to and celebrate our communities. We are also here to stand up against persecution, including religious persecution and we will always believe survivors.

From time-to-time Switchboard might partner or work alongside organisations from a faith background. Our commitment to LGBTIQA+ communities is that we will only do so where we are both convinced and where they have demonstrated an ongoing commitment to inclusion for all in the LGBTIQA+ communities.