two people working at a table covered in pens and coloured paper as part of their youth engagement training

Investing in Youth Engagement Training: Building Confidence, Consistency and Youth-Led Practice

At a Glance: Building a Stronger Foundation for Youth-Led Practice Youth Leads UK partnered with Participation People to strengthen youth engagement training across its staff team, building greater confidence in facilitation, professional boundaries, communication and impact measurement. Building on an existing relationship, Participation People designed and delivered a bespoke four-part Read more

By Em Priest, ago
A room of people talking to each other and working at tables, learning about genuine safeguarding participation.

Safeguarding Participation Done Right: Embedding a Regional Voice Network Across the North West

At a Glance: Building Regional Infrastructure for Safeguarding Participation The Safeguarding Voices Leadership Network was created to address a challenge shared across safeguarding partnerships in the North West: participation work was valued, but often fragmented, inconsistent and overly dependent on individual “voice champions”. In partnership with Participation People, the Network Read more

By Em Priest, ago
A hand-drawn banner promoting joyful camps and embedding youth voice at scale

Embedding Youth Voice at Scale: How SeriousFun Built a Joyful, Rights-Based Participation Movement

At a Glance: From Keynote Spark to Network-Wide Ignition Embedding youth voice at scale is a challenge, even for seasoned youth professionals. That’s why SeriousFun Children’s Network partnered with Participation People. Not for a surface-level initiative, but a system-wide process, across SeriousFun’s global network of camps for children with serious illnesses Read more

By Em Priest, ago
a group of young people, our young content creators, walking alongside a canal, taking photos of nature with their phones

Young Content Creators for Nature: How Dorset Empowered Youth-Led Environmental Storytelling

At a Glance: Young Content Creators in Dorset Dorset Local Nature Partnership (DLNP) and Dorset Wildlife Trust (DWT) partnered with Participation People to deliver a young content creators programme, equipping young people aged 14–19 to produce engaging, youth-led environmental content. Over four months, participants explored themes including nature recovery, climate Read more

By Em Priest, ago
A senior leader and young girl sat at a table talking and co-producing resources, improving safeguarding thresholds.

Improving Safeguarding Thresholds: Co-Producing Change with Families & Professionals in the North West

At a Glance: Improving Safeguarding Thresholds with Co-Production The North West Improvement Programme (NWIP) partnered with Participation People to redesign how safeguarding thresholds are understood and communicated across Cheshire and Merseyside. Safeguarding partners recognised that existing threshold documents were often complex, inconsistent and difficult for families to navigate. Parents and Read more

By Em Priest, ago
A group of young people working at a table, being trained in recruitment. Youth participation in recruitment at work

From Advert to Appointment: How Nexus Fostering Embraced Youth Participation in Recruitment With Care-Experienced Young People

At a Glance: Youth Agency Recruitment Training Nexus Fostering partnered with Participation People to strengthen and formalise youth participation in recruitment, ensuring care-experienced young people have meaningful influence over who is hired to work with them. Through a bespoke, AQA-accredited Youth Agency Recruitment Training programme, young people were equipped with Read more

By Em Priest, ago