Queer Climbers LDN Pride Social
Queer Climbers
LDN Pride Social
Saturday 27 June 2026
5pm - 11pm
We’re super excited to announce that we're back back back again for our annual Pride social! We’re so lucky to be teaming up with Rise for a third year to run an amazing event for y'all. We hope you can join us for a wicked night celebrating our beautiful community.
This event is run by and for Trans, Non-Binary, Queer and LGBTQIA+ folk. No racism (including anti-semitism, Islamophobia, and xenophobia), transphobia, homophobia, ableism, or any other form of hate or prejudice will be tolerated at this event.
Tickets
Standard - £16, Concession - £12
Free shoe hire (normally £3.5)
This year we are supporting the Good Law Project again, with £1 from every ticket being donated to their work supporting trans rights. GLP are currently working to appeal the High Court’s latest judgment on trans rights. For more info see: https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/help-us-appeal-the-high-courts-judgment-on-trans-rights/
You can help us support GLP further by choosing to donate an amount of your choice on top of your ticket price.
Optional registration to one or more workshops (details below)
Workshop Spaces
Once you have your event ticket it’s free to sign onto one of our workshops - spaces are limited so make sure you book before they're all gone!
Workshops as follows:
Intro to Bouldering (V0) - run by a Rise Climbing instructor, this session is perfect for completely new and beginner climbers who are climbing V0 / V1 grades
Bouldering Basics (V1-2) - run by a Rise Climbing instructor, this session is great for climbers looking to work on fundamental climbing techniques at the V1 / V2 grade range
Intro to Board Climbing - join us for a casual board-climbing session where we'll demystify board climbing, learn how to use a board, it's benefit in outdoor climbing, and have plenty of fun!
We recommend attendees are consistently climbing V2 or above.
Mobility and Strength with Faye - Faye (Strength and Flow) is back again and will be running two workshops to help with your movement and strength on and off the wall.
This class teaches movement in a way that you likely haven’t covered before - using your own bodyweight to build internal strength. We do this with each joint, exploring the entire anatomical movement that the joint is capable of. My hope is that you’ll build better connection to your body, and understand what areas in your body need more attention. When you know your deficits, you can get ahead of injuries. I’ve been a strength coach for about 10 years, and I only learned this form of movement in the last 6 years, if I had started it earlier I believe it might have helped my climbing journey be smoother from the start.
Who’s it for?
Any level of climber, anyone who’s keen to prepare their body for long-term climbing.
What you’ll get:
Learn how to control each joint individually - this will make more complex movements feel easier
Helps to release neurological tension
Access to videos with a daily mobility routine
Discussion - bring any questions you have around strength or mobility training
Optional:
If you’d like to get ahead of what we’ll cover in class, send me an email with a request for the videos. It takes some time for things to ‘click’ so don’t worry too much if you don’t fully get it. Do your best to familiarise yourself with the movements, so that you have a better understanding by the time we do the workshop.
Email: faye@strengthandflow.com
Website: www.strengthandflow.com
Panel talk - Getting into outdoor climbing
Fed up of plastic rocks and feel like getting your hands on the real thing? Join some QCL community legends to hear them talk about their experiences of outdoor climbing and how you can get into it too.
And more!
We'll have all sorts of other fun to keep you busy through the evening from specially set partner climbs, climbing games, our boardgame & crafts corner and karaoke!
Food
Rise will be serving Thai small plates on the night, including:
Jackfruit or halal chicken skewers
Mango sticky rice
Schedule
5pm doors open
5:15 - 6pm Mobility and strength with Faye 1
6 - 7pm Intro to Bouldering (V0)
6 - 6:45pm Intro to Board Climbing
6:45 - 8pm Mobility and strength with Faye 2
7 - 8pm Bouldering Basics (V1/2)
7:30pm Food available
8:15pm Getting into outdoor climbing panel talk
9pm Karaoke
11pm go home?
Buddy System
Please send us a DM on Instagram or drop us an email if you’d like to be introduced to one of the reps ahead of the event!
Access and Facilities
Rise have detailed their access and facilities here on their website. We will have a playlist keeping the vibes going. Please speak to us if you have any auditory or sensory needs, and we will do our best to accommodate.
If you have a question that isn’t covered, or specific access needs that aren’t being addressed, please email info@rise-climbing.com or call Rise directly on 020 4547 0708.
Showers, Changing Rooms & Toilets
All facilities are gender neutral and located on the ground floor. Changing rooms have private cubicles, and there is also a disabled toilet which includes baby changing facilities.
Lockers
Lockers are on the ground floor. Please bring your own padlock as Rise only have a limited number of padlocks available to borrow from the front desk.
