Training & Consultancy

Albert Kennedy Trust has 20 years experience of providing housing, support, advocacy and mentoring services to LGBT young people who are homeless or living in a hostile environment.

Our supported lodgings programme has been recognised by the Department of Communities and Local Government’s Youth Homelessness Network website and by Shelter as a model of best practice. AKT is also a registered provider of supported lodgings across North West England and holds accredited provider status from the Mentoring & Befriending Foundation.

We are a highly skilled and experienced group of professionals from a variety of backgrounds and specialisms including the fields of social work; youth work; fundraising; foster care; finance and education.

We can offer Public, Private and Voluntary sector organisations training and consultancy in:

• Equality, diversity & inclusion training & audit for provider of youth services, housing and foster care  through our ‘Making a Difference’ Quality Mark (see pdf below)
• Establishing a supported lodgings scheme
• Developing a mentoring scheme
• LGBT young people & forced marriages: support for service providers
• Social work
• Placements for social work students
• CRB administration
• Panel member for public sector tribunals

AKT Quality Mark.pdf

For further information please contact our Chief Executive Tim Sigsworth on 0207 831 6562 / This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it