Episode 10

Which young people are we involving?

As other episodes of the podcast show there are many different ways to involve young people in an organisation’s work and to share power with them. In this episode you will hear from four very different organisations about how they tried to ensure that their structures and support for young people’s leadership and their listening are been equitable and inclusive and how they have addressed tensions around accountability and representation which arise when some young people are expected to speak on behalf of a wider group of young people. 

In this episode, we hear from:

• Martha Mackenzie, Executive Director, Civic Power Fund, the UK’s first fund for community organising - investing in grassroots organising and providing wrap-around support for groups.   

IG: @CivicPowerFund and LinkedIn: Civic Power Fund

• Nicky Crabb, Director at Little Green Pig, a writing and mentoring charity for children and young people aged 7-18 in Sussex.

IG: @littlegreenpig_ and email: info@littlegreenpig.org.uk

• Tanya Nelson, Youth Empowerment and Project Lead at Sister System, an organisation working to bridge the gap between care-affected girls and mainstream society by working with ‘sisters’ to ensure they have the same opportunities as everyone else.

IG: @sister_system

• Biff Nesbitt, Senior Youth Work Practitioner, Gendered Intelligence. 

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: thelisteningfund.org/learning-and-sharing