Funding bid for gay youth cafe
A youth group for LGBT teenagers in Oswestry is appealing for funding to help it meet more regularly.
Organisers say homophobic hate crime in the town has been highlighted by the police.
Shropshire Youth Association has applied to Oswestry Town Council for a grant to allow the XYZ youth group that meets once a month in the town in the shape of a gay youth cafe to meet twice a month.
The applications says that nationally LGBT young people are some of the most vulnerable, facing family rejection, homophobic attitudes and bullying, coupled with understanding where they fit in society.
Shropshire Council funded the youth association to run a two term project at the Marches secondary school, at the school's request to support their LGBT pupils but the project came to an end in the summer the application says.
Chairman, Jon Tandy, said Shropshire Youth Association successful bid to Children in Need to fund provision across Shropshire with two meetings a month in Shrewsbury and one in Telford and Oswestry.
To fund a second session in Oswestry would cost £3,000 a year, the application says.
Oswestry Town Council meets to discuss the funding application on Monday.
