The Proud Trust

Website: http://www.theproudtrust.org
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theproudtrust/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/theproudtrust
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_proud_trust/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/LGBTYouthNorthWest
[email protected]
Where do they work?: City-Wide, Greater Manchester, North West, UK Wide
Address: 49-51 Sidney Street Manchester M1 7HB
Registered charity number: 1161102
Description: The Proud Trust is an LGBT+ youth charity empowering young people to be proud of who they are. The Proud Trust delivers youth work and one-to-one support across Greater Manchester. The charity also runs a national training and inclusion programme for schools, Proud Connections Live Chat, and manages Manchester’s LGBT+ Centre, The Proud Place.

We can trace our roots back to the 1970’s and the Gay Youth Group that met in Manchester, initially in Waterloo Place, and from 1988, the Sidney Street purpose-built Gay Centre.

In the years since, we have continued to put LGBT+ young people at the forefront of our work. We support young people across the north-west and beyond through youth groups, mentoring programmes and more. We work with and support adults in trusted positions, including schools and other children’s services, helping them make spaces more LGBT+ inclusive as well as improving confidence in tackling discrimination and celebrating diversity.
Services delivered: youth groups, coordinating national and regional LGBT+ youth work networks, managing the LGBT+ Centre for Manchester, delivering of training, running events and campaigns, undertaking research and creating resources
Services are available: Face to face, Online/digitally
Services are delivered on: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Monday opening time: 10am - 5pm
Tuesday opening time: 10am - 5pm
Wednesday opening time: 10am - 5pm
Thursday opening time: 10am - 5pm
Friday opening time: 10am - 5pm

Volunteering Opportunities

Opportunity title Summary
Fundraising Volunteers Could you donate a bit of time during 2017 to your local LGBT charity? We are setting up a new fundraising volunteer group full of helpful people who are happy to help out at events on an ad-hoc basis. This is not a regular commitment, we need people prepared to volunteer for a few hours or a day here and there when an opportunity for us to fundraise or promote our work comes up. It may be at short notice sometimes!
BAME LGBT Allies Our BAME programme seeks to work with Black, Asian and Minorities/Minority Ethnicity (BAME) communities to engage in dialogue around gender and sexuality with the aim of creating spaces where young lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans (LGBT) young people feel able to be their full selves in, without fear of rejection, discrimination or isolation. We want to engage with BAME youth and community workers in LGBT awareness training and to see themselves as allies - BAME people who stand up for and support LGBT equality. We know that in many BAME communities, being LGBT or openly discussing gender and sexuality is still a taboo and many people within these spaces haven't the confidence and support to facilitate dialogue despite wanting to. We are hoping to change this with the allies programme by enabling more people to stand up as role models for their communities. The opportunity will involve being trained as an ally to help facilitate this dialogue in your local BAME community/is and act as a role model for other workers in this area.