Apart from being a
TLA buzzword for
Apprentice Knowledge Test, and meaning
act in various Northern
European languages,
AKT is also an
abbreviation for the Albert
Kennedy Trust, which is an English organisation that seeks to aid
teenage gays and
lesbians providing them accepting, supportive, and caring homes.
AKT, which was founded in
1989, operates mainly in
London and
Manchester, but it is a growing
organisation. Thus in some years, it will have more workers than the 70
volunteers and the six paid
staff.
The name of the
trust comes from the
tragic story of the
16 year old Albert Kennedy
falling to his death from the top of a car park in Manchester whilst trying to
escape a car load of
queerbashers.
Albert was a
runaway from a children's home in
Salford and was
depressed. His short, tragic life had been filled with
rejection and
abuse.