How to engage young people

In this podcast episode, the #YouthVoicePioneers discuss the unrepresented voices of Care Leavers across a number of sectors, such as education, justice, social care, volunteering, and employment. In this podcast, Care Leavers from Dorset, Royal Borough of Greenwich, Wandsworth and Herefordshire share their experiences and how practices can be improved upon.

This blog from BOND highlights how narrative storytelling podcasts can tell personal stories while highlighting social issues for audiences in non-didactic ways. A growing number of development agencies and NGOs have created their own podcasts to showcase their work and bring listeners into the daily lives of the communities they support.

This Resource Guide provides in-depth information about youth engagement, as well as practical strategies for engaging young people.

This toolkit from North Leicestershire Government details effective methods and approaches to secure and embed youth engagement within your organisation, programmes, or processes.

The Hear It Podcast brings the latest insights and ideas on how to better engage young audiences within marketing and communications. Hosted by Thread & Fable founder Rebecca Roberts, the series explore themes around the challenges, opportunities and issues when it comes to effectively engaging children and young people.

This handbook aims to assist professionals in understanding and supporting children’s right to be heard. It offers practical approaches to support professionals to “do” children’s participation and make it work.

This activity bank from Streetgames provides lots of creative and fun ideas and games to engage young people in youth voice and participation activities. 

A range of tools, guidance and advice for professionals to help them ask, listen, act, and feedback on the views of children and young people that they work with.

These resources and infographics from Peer Power outline opportunities and challenges that come with participation and co-creation in a youth justice context, and offers reflections, ideas and learning that arose from targeted research projects.

This toolkit from Voice Opportunity Power offers practical guidance on how to involve young people (11-18) in the way that places get built and managed, in order to improve participation in – and the quality of – new development and regeneration.

This toolbox is designed to support children and adults who advocate for the rights and well-being of children, through children’s participation.

These how-to guides, developed as part of the College's evaluation on the impact of the #iwill Fund, offer practical tips and suggestions on how to support young people within youth voice initiatives across a range of outcomes. Developed in collaboration with our Young Evaluators Panel.

This free online and interactive presentation, developed by Upstarts Projects, offers guidance on what youth voice is and some examples of projects – especially relevant to the arts, cultural and youth sectors in the UK.

This podcast series from Upstart Projects explores good practice across youth voice topics and approaches, shining a spotlight on organisations, practitioners and young people engaging in youth voice across a range of contexts.