Episode 08

Exploring the deep and lasting organisational impacts involving young people can have.

In this episode we hear from three very different organisations that have made a clear commitment to sharing power with young people - backed up with resources and support for everyone involved.  For the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and The Mix, involving young people has led to cultural shifts in ways that they couldn’t have predicted at the outset. For Peer Power, the commitment to co-creating as peers, as well as empathy-based practice, has always been key to the organisation’s culture. We hear about how they adopted new structures and processes to support power sharing as their organisation grew. 

In this episode, we hear from:

• Catherine Hillis, the Director of the Fairer Futures Programme at the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, who tells us about how their relationship with their Involving Young People Collective has shifted the organisation’s strategy, priorities and culture. 

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/esmee-fairbairn-foundation/posts/?feedView=all X: @esmeefairbairn

• Ann-Marie Douglas and Nicola Kidston, Co-CEOs of Peer Power Youth, who share with us their experience of introducing consent-based decision-making circles across the organisation’s work. 

Anne-Marie’s LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/anne-marie-douglas-00a07718 and email: amdouglas@peerpower.org.uk. Nicola’s LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/nic-kidston-615a2821 and email: nicolakidston@peerpower.org.uk

• Michael Lister, the Chair of the Mix’s Youth Advisory Board, who shares his experience of the growing involvement and influence of the Youth Advisory Board. 

IG: @themixuk Linkedin: @themixcharity

RESOURCES

This episode is part of our first series which builds on Collective Discovery’s work as Learning Partner of the Listening Fund. 

You can find all of the Listening Fund’s resources, including blogs and practice papers on a range of topics here

Here’s further reading on consent-based decision-making as practiced by Peer Power.