LGBT Youth Scotland funding: FOI release

Information requested

How much funding has LGBT Youth Scotland received from the Scottish Government since 2010?

How much funding is it expected to receive from the Scottish Government in the current financial year and the next financial year?

Please provide any documents eg emails and letters sent internally, or between the Scottish Government and LGBT Youth Scotland, mentioning the words “James Rennie".

Response

Each of the questions as part of your request have been considered separately below.

1. “How much funding has LGBT Youth Scotland received from the Scottish Government since 2010?”

Under section 25(1) of FOISA, we do not have to give you information which is already reasonably accessible to you. If, however, you do not have internet access to obtain this information from the website listed, then please contact me again and I will send you a paper copy.

Information on the funding received by LGBT Youth Scotland is outlined in this FOI response:

LGBT Youth Scotland funding: FOI release - gov.scot

Below is funding also received by LGBT Youth Scotland between 8 October 2024 which is the date the aforementioned FOI response was provided, and 18 July 2025, which is not yet published online and is therefore not reasonably accessible to you.

During this period the organisation received £11,585 for 2024/25 financial year, which is for payments from the Sexual Health and Blood Borne Viruses Framework to fund their Sexual Wellbeing Work. In total they received £22,609 for this work in 2024/25.

2. “How much funding is it expected to receive from the Scottish Government in the current financial year and the next financial year?”

For 2025/26, LGBT Youth Scotland are receiving:

£290,871 through the Equality and Human Rights Fund Equality & Human Rights - Inspiring Scotland
£55,773 through the Delivering Equally Safe Fund Delivering Equally Safe - Inspiring Scotland
£78,750 through the Children, Young People, Families Early Intervention & Adult Learning and Empowering Communities (CYPFEI & ALEC) Fund Children Young People and Families Early Intervention Fund and Adult Learning and Empowering Communities Fund
£39,737 from the Children, Young People, Relationships and Families Directorate. £23,784 from the Sexual Health and Blood Borne Viruses Framework to fund their Sexual Wellbeing Work.

Under section 17 of FOISA the Scottish Government does not hold the information on funding for the financial year 26/27, as the budgets for 2026-27 financial year have not yet been agreed.

3. “Please provide any documents eg emails and letters sent internally, or between the Scottish Government and LGBT Youth Scotland, mentioning the words “James Rennie”.

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, the costs of locating, retrieving and providing the information requested would exceed the upper cost limit of £600. The reason for this is the subject you have requested information about includes work across many different areas of the government. An initial trawl for information returned a substantial number of files which could be considered to be within scope. Under section 12 of FOISA, public authorities are not required to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying would exceed the upper cost limit, which is currently set at £600 by Regulations made under section 12.

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