TheGayUK Launches the No Excuse Project

<p>The No Excuse Project is launched today, posting free condoms to your door. TheGayUK and the NHS’s Freedoms Shop have teamed together to ensure that anyone who needs access to free condoms can get them - delivered directly to their door, for free.</p><p>Newsdesk | 8th July 2013</p><p></p><p> </p><p><img src="http://www.thegayuk.com/communities/8/004/009/928/388/images/4595265606.jpg" width="460" height="307" alt="Pam Ann - No Excuse Project" title="Pam Ann - No Excuse Project"/></p> <p></p><p>New HIV infections and other sexually transmitted infections in the gay, male bisexual and Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM) community are at record levels. So to try and combat this trend TheGayUK decided to launch their No Excuse Project to help out. </p><p></p><p>TheGayUK’s co-founder Jake Hook said, “I was watching Channel 4’s The Sex Clinic and it occurred to me that somehow we’re being failed as a community in relation to sex health education. With cuts to vital services and the upward trend of new HIV infections in the UK, either people aren’t freely able to access condoms or don’t know that they can dramatically make the sex you have safer.</p><p></p><p>“The day after the programme, I rang Katy Harrad at The Freedoms Shop and asked whether Freedoms would be able to help us out with condoms, luckily for us, she’s just as passionate about safer sex as we are.</p><p></p><p>“We’re working towards making sure that there is No Excuse - ever - not to have a condom in your home or pocket.”</p><p></p><p>Stand-up comedian Pam Ann, who’s offering her full support to the project, says: “If it’s NOT ON... it’s NOT ON!”</p><p></p><p>The campaign called the No Excuse Project aims to ensure that everyone and anyone in the gay, bisexual or MSM community who doesn’t have access to free condoms, either because they’re too shy or embarrassed, think they’re too young or don’t live close to a gay bar which provides free condoms, can simply fill in a confidential form at <a href="http://www.noexcuseproject.co.uk/">www.noexcuseproject.co.uk</a> and receive condoms through the post.</p><p></p><p> </p><p><img src="http://www.thegayuk.com/communities/8/004/009/928/388/images/4595265885.jpg" width="460" height="460" alt="Jake Hook & Graham Davies - TheGayUK" title="Jake Hook & Graham Davies - TheGayUK"/></p> <p></p><p>A team from TheGayUK will be at a number of Prides around the country, including Oxford, Edinburgh, Reading, North Wales, Gloucester, Warwickshire and Doncaster aiming to bring attention to the campaign and giving out thousands of condoms to revellers.</p><p></p><p>If you would like to donate towards the running of the No Excuse Project then please visit: <a href="http://www.noexcuse.thegayuk.com/donate/4577064201">Donate Here</a></p><p>For every £1 donation we can help protect up to 4 partners from catching or spreading STIs.</p><p></p><p>Thank you.</p><p></p><p> </p><p><img src="http://www.thegayuk.com/communities/8/004/009/928/388/images/4586001108.jpg" width="380" height="28" alt="" title=""/></p> <p><a href="http://www.thegayuk.com/#/magazine/4574334751/INTERVIEW-Plane-Filthy-Pam-Ann-Takes-Off/6034842">Interview: Pam Ann</a></p><p><a href="http://www.prideguideuk.co.uk/">Pride Guide</a></p><p><a href="http://www.thegayuk.com/#/magazine/4574334751/LONDON-Pride-2013-Review/6057874">Review: Pride In London</a></p><p></p><p> </p>