The challenge The leadership at Kooth, an online mental wellbeing community aimed at 11-25 year-olds, recognised the importance of integrating youth voices and perspectives right into the heart of their organisational decision-making processes, to be able to truly provide a service that addressed the needs and preferences of their young Read more
Introduction In response to the negative impact of COVID-19 on young people’s health and wellbeing, Merton Council commissioned Participation People to establish the Merton Peer Educator Project. The project aimed to address the gap in age-appropriate health messaging and advocacy by creating a network of 16-30 year-olds dedicated to promoting Read more
Introduction Participation People collaborated with Gloucestershire Community Rail Partnership (GCRP) to support a group of Young Researchers (YRs) in producing evidence-informed resources aimed at promoting sustainable travel among young people. The project involved designing a survey, collecting and analysing data, and generating key messages to encourage young people to travel Read more
Case Study 2022 – 2023 Client: Engineering UK Author: James Rimmer Project Lead: Charlotte Patterson Objective To recruit, train, and support 50 Young Champions (aged 11-16) from across the UK, enabling them to co-facilitate 12 consultation activities addressing 12 Big Business Challenges. The goal was to inform Engineering UK’s strategy Read more
Introduction The National Lottery (TNL) Community Fund approached Participation People to help strengthen how it listens to, values and acts on young people’s opinions when making decisions, by working with TNL’s Youth Voice teams. The Youth Voice Teams are based around the UK in Scotland, England, Northern Ireland and Wales. Read more
Introduction The NHS has a national plan to make big quality improvements to local services, such as asthma, epilepsy and mental health, for the children and young people that use them. Regional teams have been set up to deliver this, and NHS Midlands approached Participation People for the expertise to Read more
One of our key achievements last year was seeing the work of our Stand Out Young Champions, who have exceeded all our expectations, giving up a total of 980 hours of their time over the year to shape and steer Movement to Work’s multi-million-pound youth development programme across the West Read more
Laurie Day is a Research Director at Ecorys, with lead responsibility for children, youth and families research. His main interests and expertise lie in the areas of child and youth participation and participatory methods. Laurie has over 20 years’ experience conducting national and international studies and evaluations and was Read more
Ana Popovici is Director of Children’s Services at the London Borough of Wandsworth. She is passionate about social work and has a special interest in how services can be modernised to support today’s generation of vulnerable people. She kindly shared her thoughts on why youth participation is so important and Read more
