Children In Need chairwoman Rosie Millard quits over £460,000 handed to scandal-hit trans group

Nov 22, 2024 by Jill

by Tom Cotterill, Daily Mail:

Children In Need‘s chairwoman has quit over £460,000 of grants awarded to a controversial transgender youth group hit by a series of child sex abuse scandals.

Rosie Millard, 59, accused the charity of ‘institutional failure’ in an explosive letter announcing her resignation after six years – as she slammed the organisation’s ‘dithering’ chief executive.

News of her resignation came just days after Children In Need raised £39.2million during its fundraiser on Friday – with former Top Gear host Paddy McGuinness drumming up £9million by riding his chopper bike 300 miles.

Writer and broadcaster Ms Millard slammed Children In Need’s chief executive, Simon Antrobus for his response to revelations that £466,000 was awarded in grants to LGBT Youth Scotland, which supports gay and transgender people aged 13 to 25.

Children In Need started giving the charity cash seven months after James Rennie, LGBTYS’s then chief executive, was convicted in 2009 of sexually assaulting a baby boy, having been part of a sordid paedophile ring.

This year another man, Andrew Easton – who co-authored a ‘coming out guide’ for LGBTYS, was convicted of sharing indecent images of children including abhorrent pictures of newborn babies.

The grants to the youth group were only suspended in May of this year after Ms Millard said she alerted Children In Need to the 2009 case and, after a review, funding was withdrawn three months later, The Times reports.

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