Legal & General supports LGBT+ young people’s charity in tackling bullying

Legal & General plans to donate a further £10,000 towards the Just Like Us Ambassador programme, which sees the charity recruit, train and support LGBT+ young people aged 18-25 to become volunteer ambassadors. Once trained, the ambassadors will go into schools and colleges to deliver talks and workshops empowering, championing and celebrating LGBT+ inclusion and equality.

Last year, volunteers from Legal & General helped the ambassadors to develop public speaking skills and practice these in online breakout rooms. The support from the volunteers helped to prepare the ambassadors to deliver their own impactful talks and workshops to thousands of students nationwide.

The financial support from the Legal & General Group so far has enabled the charity to easily adapt to online training for new ambassadors, which previously took place in person. The digital transformation of the Ambassador programme has proved to be particularly effective, with 132 new ambassadors completing all stages - an increase on the previous year’s 101 ambassadors. The charity has now started to offer virtual ambassador talks to schools, with 16 talks benefiting more than 3,000 young people having been delivered.