Founded | 1989 |
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Founder | Cath Hall |
Registration no. | 1093815 |
Focus | Homeless LGBTQ+ youth |
Location | |
Key people | Cath Hall (Founder) Tim Sigsworth MBE (Chief Executive) |
Employees | 29 |
Website | www |
Formerly called | Albert Kennedy Trust |
Akt (stylised as akt and legally known as The Albert Kennedy Trust) is a voluntary organisation based in England, created in 1989 to serve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBTQ+) young people who are homeless or living in a hostile environment. It started in Greater Manchester in 1989 and opened in London in 1996, and expanded to Newcastle in 2013,[1] Newcastle upon Tyne and Bristol.[2]