community feed
At LGBT Youth Scotland we know our community of young people is extraordinary and we should celebrate this. Our community feed is a way for all of us to share news, photos and video with each other.
Halloween 2026 in Falkirk involved a group quiz with prizes! Biscuit decorating! & spooky decoration making.
Young people decided on every activity and youth workers made it happen.
Can’t wait to see what their ideas are for the festive party at the end of 2026!
FK1nclude
- Falkirk
Our Dundee group recently had a visit from Laura from Youth Scotland who led a tote bag tie dye session! We can’t wait to see the results.
Allsorts of Spectrum
- Dundee
Our youth group in Perth recently had a fun session playing ‘Budgeting & Finance’ a game their youth worker came up with after the young people asked for a session on ‘how to save up for big purchases’ but also said ‘make it like D&D’. Young people had a great time designing characters and rolling dice to determine their financial fates!
GLOW group
- Perth
On Saturday staff and vols joined a group of Edinburgh and Lothian LGBTQ+ peeps to engage in a fantastic workshop at the Seabird Centre in North Berwick with Charlotte. We then went on a fantastic boat trip around the Bass Rock. Dolphins, seals, a LOT of seabirds and gugas. Thank you to the Sea-Changers fund for helping this happen.
Visit Tramway to see the AIDS Memorial Quilt!
TYG (Trans Youth Glasgow) and StandOut youth groups spent some time this morning with their youth workers Alix & Maria visiting Tramway’s exhibition and reflecting on the history of the AIDS pandemic.
Maria
- Tramway, centre for contemporary art and performance
StandOut & TYG young people stepped out of our regular evening groups for a Friday morning adventure.
We started the morning with a workshop with the Butterfly Conservation at the Hidden Gardens. We saw moths up close, smelled different kinds of mint; drew on logs; and wrapped the morning with having a emotional sneak peek to the AIDS Memorial Quilt Exhibition at Tramway.
Huge thank you to Hidden Gardens; Butterfly Conservation and Tramway for the wonderful day.
West Team
- Glasgow
LGBTQ+ young people in Glasgow loved visiting the science centre today! We learned the science behind building the tallest towers possible (see evidence of one tower which collapsed). We also loved learning a great many facts about dinosaurs!!
Paula LGBTYS
West Lothian Pride was great fun.
Socks and Nari had a creative stall at the youth space and chatted to around 97 young people whilst they were there.
Lots of people got involved in in creating a Happy Pride Banner which the archive in West Lothian would like for their collection.
Looking forward to next year already.
East Team
- West Lothian
Free creative workshops for LGBTQ+ young people aged 16-24
Join Fruitmarket and LGBT Youth Scotland for a welcoming series of artist-led workshops where you can try new materials, build creative skills, meet other LGBTQ+ young people, and help create a final group exhibition.
- 10 free workshops led by a professional artist
- Explore painting, textiles, clay and more
- Fridays, 2–4pm, at The Fruitmarket starting in early October
- Open to LGBTQ+ young people from Edinburgh and Lothians
Sign up here Fill | Fruitmarket x LGBTYS: Youth ART Connects
Socks
- Edinburgh
Would you like to help shape new research ideas?
Join a University of Edinburgh research project on gambling in young people,
Who can take part?
Young people aged 13–24 who have experienced gambling-related harm themselves, or who have been affected by the gambling of a close friend or family member. This can include gambling or gambling-like features in games, such as loot boxes and other in-game purchases.
What’s involved?
You’ll be invited to take part in three short online discussion sessions, each lasting around 45 minutes, over a four-month period.
As a thank you, you’ll receive a £25 Love2shop voucher for each session you attend.
What a day at Lochaber Pride! We had an amazing time getting to know the LGBTQ+ community around Fort William and finding out what it’s like being a young person in Lochaber. We can’t wait to see what comes next!
As we approached four years since our lovely volunteer Lou started volunteering with us the young people were keen to do something special to celebrate so we went on a picnic. Everyone brought some food to share and one of our young people even made homemade orange lemonade which was very much appreciated in the hot weather. We shared some of our favourite memories of Lou’s time as a volunteer and they shared that four years as a volunteer is the longest they’ve ever stuck at anything!
GLOW group
- Perth