LGBT Youth Scotland
From LGBT Archive
LGBT Youth Scotland is a community-based organisation for young LGBT people in Scotland. Its mission is to:
- “empower lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people and the wider LGBT community so that they are embraced as full members of the Scottish family at home, school and in every community.”[1]
Its former chief James Rennie was convicted in 2009 of child sex assaults [2]
He was given a life sentence for sexually assaulting a three-month-old child and for conspiring to get access to children in order to abuse them. He was ordered to serve a minimum of 13 years . Grants from Children In Need began seven months later, when the charity had new management in place. The chair of the BBC's Children in Need charity Rosie Millard resigned, after reports that she protested over grants awarded to LGBT Youth Scotland [3].
Rosie Millard, a writer and broadcaster, accused the charity of "institutional failure" in her letter of resignation
References
- ↑ https://www.lgbtyouth.org.uk/about-us
- ↑ Rennie, who had been chief executive of LGBTYS from 2003 to 2008 and is also a previous SNP adviser, was jailed in 2009 after being revealed as a member of a paedophile ring.
- ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp35652x26yo Children in Need chair resigns over grants to scandal-hit LGBT charity BBC 21 November 2024
