About Our Campaign
Our Crowdfunder finished with over £125,000 raised. Thank you to all our investors!
Want to learn more?
Read all about our plan to run this venue with the community.
Supporting information for the Business Plan.
Find out what it means to own a share.
The JOIN Project
Throughout 2024, FOTJA worked with community partners to explore how queer spaces can be more radically inclusive, including by creating better opportunities for work, training and volunteering for LGBTQIA+ people who have experience of homelessness and/or have insecure immigration status.
Over a year of creative workshops, peer interviews, surveys, comment cards and more we have created a Community Toolkit and Podcast series for everyone to learn, share and enjoy.
What people are saying:
“As a trans person, it feels like coming home when I go to a space like this [Lèse Majesté], a rare opportunity to feel truly comfortable in London”.”
— Attendee
“Lèse Majesté felt safe and revolutionary, all at the same time”.
— Attendee
Who we are
FOTJA are an award-winning campaign group which came into existence in 2014 to fight against the closure of the Joiners Arms, a queer pub, on Hackney Road in East London. FOTJA have since transformed into an organization passionate about protecting and creating queer spaces. We aim to open London’s first community-run LGBTQI+ space and want to help reverse the pattern of mass closures of queer venues.
