We are a social impact company driving positive change for young people and families
We design strategies that change lives through youth-led co-creation.
We work with young people to co-produce content (digital media and other creative content), to evaluate programmes and projects, and to carry out research into young audiences. Our aim for every project is to help us to better understand the needs of children and young people and to improve their lot. Every programme we develop aims to create a supportive framework for them, their families, and the communities they live in.
As our name suggests, Make (Good) Trouble is a social disrupter. We exist to challenge existing norms and change entrenched ways of doing things. Our work is centred around young people’s emotional wellbeing and everything we make is developed through the eyes of the child. We actively encourage teens to think differently, to understand that they have the capacity to redesign their thinking processes and challenge and change attitudes.
Our productions, projects and programmes are also aimed at anyone who wants to understand teens better including parents, carers, families, educators and policy makers. If you’re interested in collaborating with us, partnering, funding or donating to our programmes, please get in touch. Together, we Make (Good) Trouble.
“Working with Make (Good) Trouble to develop lesson plans for our PSHE Association-accredited adolescent well-being project has made all the difference to our outreach. It has literally opened the doors to hundreds of schools for us. This means potentially thousands of students are being resourced to support their own mental health and to have healthier media diets. Our impact would have been a fraction of what it is without MGT. We are working with them on a second set of lesson plans and look forward to working with them on new projects we are developing. They are great!”
Martin Spinelli, Professor of Podcast at the University of Sussex and Director of Rezilience Ltd.
“I’ve just listened to the Raising Teens Neurodiversity podcast and it’s absolutely fantastic. I’m really enjoying listening to the advice from the panel as well as other young people’s own thoughts and feelings that are similar to my own. I also listened to the Trauma podcast and I’m in tears hearing what the panel had to say about my own story and just hearing it back. I can’t put into words how brilliant this show is and I hope more people can hear it because it could be life saving for someone going through something similar!”
Young person, who was interviewed for Raising Teens, on listening to episodes from series 5.
Main image photo credit: Lotti Terry (20)
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Make (Good) Trouble is a partner of the Royal Society of Arts, Cities of Learning programme which is endorsed by City and Guilds. It enables us to reward young people who participate in our projects with Badge Nation digital badges for their CVs.
As part of Badge Nation, we recognise what individuals achieve and accomplish outside of formal accredited learning. We have awarded 119 digital badges to young people to date. Led by Real Ideas and Future Creators, all badges issued by Badge Nation are written using the Cities of learning badging standard which is endorsed by City and Guilds and the RSA.
Make (Good) Trouble is proud to be a Kickstart employer.
