The London Chemsex Conference has become a rare space where practitioners can meet, learn and share.
Delegate feedback from 2024 and 2025 is clear: high-quality speakers, practical learning, and cross-sector exchange made the day directly useful to the work we do.
This year’s conference responds to that feedback with a strong focus on practice. If you work in chemsex, drugs, sexual health, mental health, emergency care, commissioning or policy, this is a serious day for serious practice.
GMHC is delivering this Conference in partnership with Antidote. Antidote is the UK’s only LGBTQ+ run and targeted drug and alcohol support service. GMHC’s health and wellbeing project has had a focus on chemsex harm reduction for 15 years.
As hard as we have tried we have had to raise the cost of tickets. This reflects a larger venue for more delegate places, improved facilities and professional catering. However, we will ensure the vibe remains community focused and inclusive. We have a limited number of concessionary tickets, email admin@gmhc.co.uk for more.
This agenda has been informed by the 2024 and 2025 conference evaluations, and what delegates have sought in terms of practice. A full agenda and speaker’s list to follow but you can expect:
Harm-reduction toolkits for frontline staff
Navigating and making pathways work in practice
Removing heteronormativity at the point of support and care
Using lived experience to improve outcomes (not tokenism)
Knowledge and developing cultural competences in services
Safeguarding, exploitation, sexual violence and chemsex
Neurodiversity inclusive practice
999, policing, and the law: what to tell clients
Drug trends, changing risks and harms, and how synthetic opioids intersect chemsex
London and national chemsex update (data, trends, news)
