"LGBTQ+ student event National Student Pride has announced this weekend's festival will be its final under its current form, due to corporates slashing their diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) budgets. Founded in 2005, National Student Pride is the UK's largest LGBTQ+ student event and during those two decades has welcomed thousands of students to its events, which were created to give LGBTQ+ students visibility, community, and access to inclusive employers."
""We founded National Student Pride in 2005 in direct response to a homophobic and deeply divisive talk given by a trainee vicar at Oxford Brookes University. "We chose to respond by creating something constructive - our very first event intentionally centred on a welcoming and inclusive panel, which included both a vicar and a rabbi, to show that faith, identity and LGBTQ+ lives do not have to be in conflict. "That founding principle - meeting prejudice with openness and conversation - has shaped National Student Pride for the past 21 years.""
National Student Pride announced this weekend's festival will be its final in its current form because of sustained corporate cuts to diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) budgets. Founded in 2005, the event became the UK's largest LGBTQ+ student gathering, providing visibility, community, and access to inclusive employers for thousands of students. The 2026 festival runs 13–14 February and includes a free daytime event at the University of Westminster, a panel on the future of trans rights chaired by Juno Dawson, and the UK's largest Diversity careers fair. Income has fallen by about two-thirds compared to two years ago, largely due to reduced employer participation.
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