The Kite Trust are raising funds to provide more ‘Meet and Eat’ sessions to LGBTQ+ young people and their families across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
The Ely-based youth charity has a Crowdfunder open until the 1st March and a £2,500 target to reach. They’re already well over half way there with match funding provided by the Co-op’s Warm Spaces fund and are hoping for a final few more donations to help reach their goal.
Chief Exec, Pip Gardner, explains: “At our Meet and Eat sessions, we provide a hot meal and a safe, warm, inclusive space for families to come together in their local community. Our events enable families to understand that having an LGBTQ+ young person can bring them into a loving and supportive community and help them to build peer support networks.”
Courtney, 25, has been going to the sessions since they started. “It’s the one place I can be myself,” she says. And she adds that the food is pretty good, too. “When you are queer and disabled,” Courtney says, “the world can be a very scary place. I never thought I would find a place like The Kite Trust.” She has met people through the sessions, and The Kite Trust’s other events, that feel “like family”.
The Crowdfunder is open until the 1st March and donations can be made at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/family-meet-and-eats-for-lgbtq-young-people
Every donation up to the value of £250 will be doubled by the Co-Op!
Who are we?
At the Kite Trust we envisage an inclusive society where LGBTQ+ young people are healthy, successful and celebrated. We support the wellbeing and creativity of LGBTQ+ young people in Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and surrounding areas, through 1:1 support, youth groups, family activities and residential opportunities.
We support LGBTQ+ young people up to the age of 30 and their families; to improve wellbeing, provide a support network, skills development opportunities as well as a safe, inclusive space where they are celebrated and free to be themselves.
Press release from The Kite Trust
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