Children in Need chair resigns, criticising grants to LGBT+ charity

Rosie Millard has resigned from Children in Need after six years as the charity’s chair - (Corbis/Getty)

The chair of the BBC’s Children in Need has resigned, accusing the charity of an “institutional failure” over grants issued to an LGBT+ organisation whose former chief was convicted of child sex assaults.

In her resignation letter to the Children in Need board, Rosie Millard, a 59-year-old former BBC journalist who had chaired the fundraising behemoth for six years, criticised grants of £466,000 awarded to the charity LGBT Youth Scotland (LGBTYS).