For older lesbians and
gay men in Croydon
Silver Rainbow is a friendly group of older gay people living in and around Croydon, who meet for lunch twice a month on Wednesdays and Thursdays (see the Diary for current dates) from 12 noon to 2:30.
Lunch at the Waterside Centre
Once a month
on a Wednesday we have a cooked lunch, provided by UNACC (Upper Norwood Association for
Community Care) at the Waterside Centre beside South Norwood Lake — see Directions. The two-course lunch now costs £6
(tea or coffee extra) and needs to be ordered the day before.
Other venues
Once a month on a Thursday we go out for healthy meals at a variety of inexpensive local lunchtime venues, originally in partnership with Age UK Croydon, whose "Fit as a Fiddle" programme taught us about healthy diet and lifestyle choices. See where we're going next and where we've been already.
Latest news
A documentary
featuring Bernard, one of our oldest members, has won the Gold Award in an
international audio festival in Chicago – see the News
page for more details.
See the video
Click here to see the video (including Geoff Manning,
pictured right, sadly no longer with us). It was filmed by Leon Ancliffe for
the LGBT Consortum.
Other CAGS activities
Silver Rainbow is a service from Croydon Area Gay Society (CAGS), working in partnership with Age UK Croydon. Membership of CAGS costs £9 a year (for non-earners) and offers:
- monthly newsletter
- theatre and restaurant visits, days out to museums and places of interest
- two social events a month in members’ homes
- Special Interests Network so members can keep in touch with each other by phone or e-mail.
There’s full information about CAGS, and an application form you can download, on the CAGS website.
Silver Rainbow is a service from Croydon Area Gay Society,
working in partnership with
Age UK Croydon.
For a list of other LGBT groups and events in Croydon, see LGBT Croydon.
For a directory of other LGBT groups and events around London, see LGBT London.