The Proud Trust

he Proud Trust is an LGBT+ organisation that supports LGBT+ young people through youth groups, peer support, mentoring programs and the Proud Connections chat service.

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.

The organisation became a Company Limited by Guarantee in 2005, after extensive consultation with LGBT+ young people and youth workers across the north-west of England. At the time, the organisation was known as LGBT Youth North West and set about addressing three main aims: