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This week we got together with Barclays to run a free ‘Understanding Finances’ workshop for local students. As we tucked in to pizzas, we discussed what young people need to know about money and finances before they start work, apprenticeships, or university. 

In the 2022-3 Young Persons’ Money Index, a report from the London Institute of Banking and Finance, found that 

  • 82% of young people want to learn more about money and finance in school
  • The cost of living crisis has led to 70% of young people feeling anxious about money, rising to 83% of 17-18 year-olds
  • 68% say they get most of their financial understanding and knowledge from their parents.

Managing money can be a challenge but it’s important for young people to develop good financial habits early on to avoid debt, build savings, and achieve your financial goals. We’ve gathered some general advice from around the web on what to start thinking about and where to get advice when getting to grips with your personal finances. 

If you’re a student, a good place to start is Martin Lewis’s Money Saving Expert website which has some excellent information and advice for students.

Barclays Life Skills is useful with tips on CV writing, managing money, help applying for jobs and more. 

Create a budget and stick to it

A budget will help you keep track of your income and expenses and ensure that you are spending within your means. Start by making a list of all your income sources, such as your salary, part-time job, or student loan. Next, list all your outgoings, including rent, bills, food, transport, entertainment, and other expenses. Once you’ve a clear picture of your finances, you can allocate your money to different categories and set spending limits for each. There are plenty of budgeting apps available that make budgeting really simple. When you can clearly see whether you’re on track, it’s a real incentive to continue. Take a look at this useful piece on budgeting apps on Money for the Masses website.  

Build an emergency fund

One of the most important financial goals you should have is to save for a rainy day. This is a savings account that you can tap into in case of unexpected expenses or emergencies, such as increased bills or repairs. Most advise that it’s a good idea to have at least three to six months’ worth of living expenses saved up in an emergency fund. To start building your emergency fund, you can set aside a certain percentage of your income every month and put it into a high-interest savings account. You can compare savings accounts at comparison sites such as Money Supermarket or Compare The Market.

Get professional advice

If you’re struggling with your finances or need help with specific financial goals, it’s always a good idea to seek professional advice. Try MoneyHelper (a free UK government-backed service) and charity Citizens Advice. 

A big thanks to the brilliant team at Barclays for an enlightening workshop.

The information provided in this blog post is for general educational purposes only and should not be considered as financial advice. While we strive to provide accurate and up-to-date information, it’s important to note that everyone’s financial situation is unique, and you should always seek professional advice before making any decisions.

Students tuck into pizza at Make (Good) Trouble and Barclays Understanding Finances event
Students tuck into pizza at Make (Good) Trouble and Barclays’ free Understanding Finances workshop

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Imagine new worlds by connecting with nature

Make (Good) Trouble is to run Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) clubs in 2023, starting with our Forest, Drama and Conservation Workshops this Easter. We’ll be outdoors exploring nature…

Our workshops are between 3-6 April 2023.

👉 Find out more and APPLY NOW!

Workshop at Friston Forest
11am-3pm, 3-4 April 2023

Join us for two-days in Friston Forest. Together we will explore the theme of forests and the history of the forest using art, acting, music, movement, storytelling, group games, and den building. There will be a focus on improvisation, team building, creativity and having no fear of failure. Led by a qualified children’s drama therapy coach from Dragon Drama.

Conservation activities and exploration of the Seven Sisters Country Park
11am-3pm, 5-6 April 2023

We’re again partnering with South Downs National Park to offer 2 days of conservation activities and exploration in the Park. Young people will be invited to explore nature on our doorstep guided by a qualified woodland ranger. We will cook and eat outside together using Make (Good) Trouble’s mobile outdoor kitchen and BBQ setup.

Holiday club attendees can use our cameras and audio equipment to document their adventures. They can create short films, images and soundscapes of their experiences. These will be shared and celebrated through our social media and on our website.

Our team

Make (Good) Trouble is the workshop organiser. Our work is centred around young people’s emotional wellbeing. We actively encourage teens to think differently, to understand that they have the capacity to redesign their thinking processes and challenge and change attitudes.

Amanda Elmes is the Learning, Outreach and Volunteering Strategy Lead at South Downs National Park Authority.

Rossy Georgeson is Artistic Director at Dragon Drama.

Apply today!

Club places are free for young people in East Sussex, aged 11-16 and in receipt of benefits-related free school meals. You can apply here!

East Sussex County Council have a host of holiday clubs across the county. You can find a list of all of them here.

Read more about Make (Good) Trouble’s Holiday Activities and Food programmes

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Hello! This is the first in a series of monthly blog posts called Make Good News. It looks at the issues affecting young people that make the news, with an emphasis on making good – so we’ll add practical tips and advice for young people and families. 

This month we cover:

  • A brilliant way to understand autism
  • A worrying rise in pupil absences
  • Issues with mental health provision
  • Oversubscribed SEND schools
  • What you can do to counter toxic hate speech
  • The great news that in London, every primary school child is to get free school meals from September
  • The Power of Courage: Women in Leadership conference – Make (Good) Trouble’s Lola speaks about young people, safety, trauma, and the police

But I’ll start with Chris Packham’s brilliant new series about autism, Inside Our Autistic Minds on BBC Two and iPlayer. 

Inside our Autistic Minds

I watched the first episode of this incredibly moving documentary last night. It helps us to understand the experiences of autistic people, and how they see the world. 

Further reading

If you want to understand more about autism, there are a couple of great books I can recommend. Journalist and author Steve Silberman’s Neuro Tribes is a real page-turner and gives us a historical view of research into autism and how parents of autistic children fought to get help for their kids. And Temple Grandin, who has autism, has written The Autistic Brain which shows us how her brain is wired differently (with her incredible brain scans!), and talks about the impact that her autism has had on her life and career.

You can also find more resources on our Help page: Autism

170,000 pupils missed more than half of their sessions last term

Persistent absence from school is becoming a huge problem, and more so for disadvantaged children. It’s possible that this issue has been exacerbated since the pandemic. 

There are calls for schools to send more personalised messages about pupil absences to parents to help bring young people back into school.  

Where to get help: 

There’s a really comprehensive article by Young Minds about school anxiety and refusal with tons of practical advice and tips.

Rise in demand for mental health services “under increasing pressure”

The huge rise in demand for mental health services (up by 44%) isn’t being met by the 22% rise in NHS staff being employed to deal with it. The National Audit Office’s report says that 8m people with mental health needs are not in contact with NHS mental health services. 

The Department for Health & Social Care and NHS England “acknowledge that it will now take longer to achieve some of the existing commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic, amid signs of a large rise in mental health conditions, particularly among young people. Over the next few years, demand for mental health services will continue to significantly outstrip provision, putting pressures on patients, staff and people trying to access services”

The number of 17-19 year olds with a probable mental health disorder has risen from 10% in 2017 to 26% in 2022. 

The report goes on to say that “NHS mental health services are under continued and increasing pressure and many people using services are reporting poor experiences. The Care Quality Commission has raised concerns about the ‘gridlocked’ health and care system, and particularly about children and young people’s mental health services … Our interviews with stakeholders highlighted that some groups had poorer experiences accessing or using services, including children and young people, people from minority ethnic groups, LGBT people, and people with more complex needs or more than one diagnosis.”

Where to get help: 

It seems that charities and community organisations will be needed to step in to help plug the growing gap in provision. You can find a list in our Help and Advice pages. If we’re missing any useful links or subjects, please let us know and we’ll add them in!

Over half of SEND schools oversubscribed

New BBC research has found that 52% of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) schools are oversubscribed. It’s putting huge pressures on already stressed parents trying to find a place for their child in a SEND school. 

A new BBC documentary called SEND Help (23 mins) tells their stories. The amount of time, paperwork, administration and costs parents are having to deal with is unacceptable.

Anne Longfield, the Chair of the Commission for young Lives told BBC Breakfast that “the system is under resourced and broken.” She later tweeted, “we are writing off the educational chances of some children because the system is broken.”

Where to get help: 

Action for Children has advice on getting support for a child’s special educational needs. They have a lot of good articles for parents of children with SEND on their website.

How do you talk to young people about toxic online views?

I came across this brilliant piece of advice from a 17-year-old about how to talk to your young person about  Andrew Tate. If you missed the news, Tate is a self-styled online influencer who peddles hate speech and misogyny. His popularity has worried many teachers and parents who are seeking information about how to talk to young people, and boys in particular, about harmful online content. 

The NSPCC’s policy officer, Hannah Rushen said: “Viewing such material at a young age can shape a child’s experiences and attitudes, resulting in further harm to women and girls in and out of school and online.”

In a 2021 review, girls reported “sexual harassment and online sexual abuse, such as being sent unsolicited explicit sexual material and being pressured to send nude pictures (‘nudes’), are much more prevalent than adults realise”and that “the frequency of these harmful sexual behaviours means that some children and young people consider them normal.” (Ofsted’s 2021 review of sexual abuse in schools and colleges)

What you can do

There are quite a few articles out there with advice on how to talk to young people about Andrew Tate, and how to counter his toxic, misogynistic views. By far the best is from 17-year-old Isaac Ohringer who wrote in a letter to The Guardian:

“As a 17-year-old, I can see that my peers who support him often feel attacked if a teacher tries to engage them in a conversation about him... While open conversation is the best way forward, teachers and parents need to have frequent discussions with their sons or students on related topics (such as consent, as stated in the article) before they talk directly about Tate. I have noticed that teachers like to jump straight to the topic after overhearing conversations in corridors. Parents can often do the same at home. This reactive approach means the topic is covered too quickly and too soon. Teachers and parents need to build towards the conversation on Tate incrementally to ease teenagers into feeling able to express themselves. Parents and teachers cannot just say “this is a safe space”, they need to prove that this is true.“

A summary of some of the better advice for parents is:

  • Be informed – so look at what they’re watching or reading on social media and understand what the debates are. 
  • Choose the right time to talk about the subject (our go-to is to be doing something else at the time like when you’re going somewhere in the car or cooking together). 
  • Ask non-judgemental questions and listen to what they have to say. 
  • And keep it as an open two-way conversation. Opening up dialogue is the key to them feeling listened to, and to getting them

One of the best we’ve found is this one from Votes for Schools which talks about helping disenfranchised young boys and men to find alternative communities to feel welcome in. “You have to remember that the issues that these boys are dealing with are real and that these groups are providing a sense of solace and understanding. Purely demonising them will not help. To remove them from a community, we need to welcome them into another one. Show them that hate and anger aren’t long-term plans.”

Free school meals for every primary school child in London

The news that every primary school child in London is to get free school meals from September and for the next academic year drew a big cheer from us all at Make (Good) Trouble. We’re hoping this is just the start and will be rolled out nationally soon. The inclusion of all pupils means that there won’t be any stigma attached to getting free school meals.   

Impact on Urban Health commissioned a study on free school meals which found that “free school meals have long been contributing significant and lasting benefits to individuals and society. The research shows a positive impact on educational attainment, mental and physical health and productivity improvements over the short, medium and long-term.” (2022)

Lola speaks about the teen brain and violence against women and girls at a Police conference

Make (Good) Trouble’s production assistant and young reporter, Lola Ray, visited a The Power of Courage. Women in Leadership Conference last week. Lola spoke alongside senior leaders from Dorset, Avon & Somerset, Cornwall, and Gwent police forces, and a number incredible speakers including Chief Petty Officer Kate Louise Nesbitt MC, Debbie Simpson QPM, and Major Tim Peake.

She told the conference, “teens are more likely to take more risks and have poor impulse control. This can also be heighted if a teen has any childhood trauma. I think it’s so important to understand this. It makes me understand why teens act the way they do.”

Lola Ray at the Women in Leadership Conference

She spoke movingly about her experience of being the victim of a racial attack when she was younger and how that had affected her life. “Even though this happened almost 10  years ago I still find it really hard to talk about but I think it’s important to share my story so people understand the impact trauma can have on a young developing teen,” she said. 

Lola showed three animated stories that included the voices of young people talking about trauma, safety, and how young people feel when they interact with the police. She told the conference, “97% of young women in the UK have been sexually harassed .… How safe are our streets for young people? What are the different threats perceived by young women, men & the LGBTQ community? What can services like the police do to help us stay safe?”

You can listen to our episode of Raising Teens: Safety in the City on BBC Sounds

Visit our Help & Advice page on Safety for links to organisations that can support young people.

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Our activities and impact

Make (Good) Trouble (MGT) works alongside a diverse range of young people and families, opening up new paths of access to professional support for mental health and emotional wellbeing, during and post-Pandemic. 

All the projects we have been involved with this year have been to further our goal of improving wellbeing and outcomes for young people and families. Our activities have helped us to highlight the issues that affect young people, and many provided them with a platform to share their views and have a say in initiatives that would affect their future.

We were delighted to welcome three young people through the Kickstart scheme to MGT, and we have provided them with employment, mentoring, and vocational training in media production and project management. One of these placements is now a part-time member of staff. The Kickstart scheme is provided by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) and Brighton & Hove County Council, and run by Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival (BDBF). It provided paid work placements for 16 to 24-year-olds claiming Universal Credit. MGT is one of 20 local organisations offering over 80 work placements in the arts, publishing, PR, digital media and other creative opportunities. 

“Being a part of this Kickstart job has given me so many more opportunities than I thought I would get with other jobs. I feel like I’m able to be a lot more creative with the support of my colleagues and get exciting opportunities to work with young people. Working on the Holiday Activities and Food project for Make (Good) Trouble has made me realise how important youth is for young people, they need a safe space to be allowed to just be themselves with no judgement and have their basic needs met that they might not get at home. It is definitely the sort of enrichment that would’ve helped me when I was young, it’s also really rewarding being there for those kids that need a role model to talk to. Covid has halted so much development and opportunities, it’s great to be part of something that is making an actual difference and helping young people get back out and trying new things.” – Hamzah Ali, Kickstart employee, Dec 2021

We continued to build on our post-lockdown work, supporting families and young people. In December, we moved into an office in Brighton so that our team could work together face-to-face after the isolation of lockdown

Make (Good) Trouble is accredited on the Digital Badges scheme as part of the Brighton Cities of Learning programme, and we awarded 63 Digital Badges to young people across the South East of England.

Raising Teens

We continued developing our Raising Teens brand this year, which aims to help parents and young people to understand each other better and to raise awareness of issues that matter most to young people. The brand includes: a closed Facebook group to support parents, a series of Facebook live-streamed Q&As, and a fourth series of our popular BBC radio show.

Raising Teens Facebook Group

We continued to support parents and young people, post lockdown, with families facing issues coming out of the pandemic, a rise in child anxiety and concerns about going back to school.

Group membership rose to over 1,700 from 41 different countries. The group had 1.4 posts a day on average (10 a week), with 73% from people in East Sussex.

Raising Teens BBC radio show

Series four of our BBC radio show, Raising Teens, aired in February 2022. This series looked at issues around safety, drugs and pressure at home. It was broadcast on BBC Radio Sussex and Surrey every Monday in February 2022, and supported by Sussex Police. 

Raising Teens is a warm-hearted and honest round-table discussion about parenting teenagers and teen mental health. First broadcast on BBC Radio Sussex and BBC Radio Surrey, in 2019, the show is hosted by presenter Guy Lloyd and includes teens’ own stories from Make (Good) Trouble’s young reporter Lola Ray, with additional reporting from our Kickstart employees Xenith Pocknell and Hamzah Ali. Lola’s teen stories are surprising, thought provoking and often delightful. The show aims to bring parents, carers, experts – everyone involved in raising teens – together to dispel myths around teen mental health and offer practical help and tips.  

Raising Teens Facebook Lives: Q&As Families and Alcohol 

Our series of Raising Teens Facebook Live discussions about alcohol and how it affects families was developed in association with Brighton & Hove’s Back on Track service, which offers support for families when a parent is drinking too much.

We were joined by practitioners from RU-OK? and Oasis Project as well as those directly affected by issues with alcohol addiction.

·       Teen drinking

·       The impact of parental drinking

·       Conflict and language around alcohol in families

Well known guests Dave Wilson aka Sober Dave, and NACOA ambassador Josh Connolly spoke to us for the live streamed Q&As. 

The 4 livestreamed Q&As reached over 16,300 people and generated over 11,500 engagements.

Trauma-informed approaches to working with young people: Training

Working with partner Oasis Project, we developed a brand new virtual training course for professionals working across Sussex. This course helps to educate and inform professionals about trauma-informed practice by increasing awareness, promoting best practice and offering ways to support young people.

Topics include understanding adverse childhood experiences, how trauma affects the brain, intersectionality in practice, working with families and vicarious trauma and self care.

We’re really proud of our youth-led team who collected trauma recovery narratives from young people, co-produced filming, editing and animating.

The course had 370 sign-ups between January and February 2022 from professionals across Sussex and beyond.

Participant feedback:

“I have done a number of introductory courses on trauma-informed practice and ACE’s but felt the filmed conversations and inclusion of young people’s experience particularly helpful. I felt the training was practical and informative. This was excellent training that I have already recommended to colleagues.”

“I found the conversational style videos with the short clips from young people really helpful, it was enough of a change of pace to keep me engaged. I also felt that the facilitators showed real empathy while still being professional and educational while discussing very difficult situations.”

“The length was fantastic and the pace was really engaging. I enjoyed the diversity of voices and inclusion of young people’s experiences was so powerful.”

“Inclusion of young people’s experience was very moving and made it very real. Breaking it into sections was helpful. Good selection of people conducting the conversations.”

“I think this is a credible introductory course and I hope more teachers access it – I think this could transform classrooms and the lives of young people.”

Holiday Activities and Food programme (HAF) for East Sussex County Council

Summer and Christmas Clubs

Make (Good) Trouble joined the Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme and ran clubs and activities over Summer and Christmas 2021, commissioned by East Sussex County Council, providing young people in East Sussex with a safe, enriching environment in which to play, learn and unwind. There was a focus on active learning and nutrition with children and young people making food together. 

Our Summer and Christmas Club provided fun and creative Media Production sessions led by young people. They put those skills to the test when they interviewed Children’s Minister, Vicky Ford and Children’s Commissioner for EnglandDame Rachel de Souza for a feature on ITV News Meridian. We also created a news feature for BBC Radio Sussex & Surrey created by our young reporter with interviews by children from our club. They discussed the importance of the club and the support of the HAF scheme.

The young makers who attend our clubs were awarded Digital badges for their CV on completion of this project. Make (Good) Trouble is a partner of the RSA Cities of Learning programme, designed to provide practical pathways to employment. In 2020 we awarded 54 Cities Of Learning Digital Badges, accredited by City and Guilds, to young people across the South East. 

Feedback for MGT’s Holiday Clubs

“Amazing. Thank you so much” Parent feedback, December 2021

“I’m gonna miss everyone a lot, including the grown ups!” Attendee feedback, Summer 2021

“I’ve been coming for the whole summer (4 weeks), I was meant to go on holiday but decided to stay at the club instead.” Attendee feedback, Summer 2021

“He came home happy every day and I can’t thank you enough for that.” Parent feedback Summer 2021

“I think the fact that there was a taxi offer was incredible for me, because I’m disabled. So though, I do have a car, driving up and down and up and down, that’d be four trips for me, it would be a lot. So that’s been an incredible bit of funding.” Parent feedback, Summer 2021

“She’s got lots of things to tell me at the end of the day – the fact that she’s been trying new things, particularly the photography because she’s been talking about wanting to do GCSE photography forever and I’ve been a bit like, okay, I don’t know where that’s come from. So the fact that she’s had an opportunity to try this out for herself and has just loved it is really, really great, because it could be more than a hobby for her.” Parent feedback, Summer 2021

HAF peer-led review and evaluation 

Make (Good) Trouble visited HAF Clubs across East Sussex in December. Using our peer-led approach, our young producers recorded audio interviews with children aged between four and 16, as well as parents, carers, providers and youth workers. The report, written for the council and the Department for Education, importantly elevated the youth voice and set out recommendations to help improve and streamline provision, including ways to raise awareness of the programme, and encourage the sharing of expertise and information among Club providers. Many of our recommendations are now being implemented. 

“To be honest with you, when this last Club is over, I’ll be pretty sad because I like coming here.” HAF child participant interviewed by Make (Good) Trouble.

Make (Good) Trouble created a special film celebrating the success and demonstrating the positive impact of the Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme in East Sussex over the summer of 2021.

“The peer-led review of the Holiday, Activity and Food (HAF) programme have been incredibly valuable to demonstrate the value of the project. By working collaboratively with activity providers and speaking directly to the young people and their families, Make Good Trouble were able to capture the wide ranging positive impacts of the programme. Alongside each report, Make Good Trouble also created a short celebratory film, incorporating photos, videos and audio testimony from young people who attended. These films were able to capture the positive impact on young people’s physical and mental health and have proved a valuable tool to promote the programme to schools and other local organisations.

“As 2021 was the first year of HAF provision in East Sussex, it was incredibly important to be able to capture what had worked well but also identify areas for improvement to inform planning for future delivery. This became particularly important for Winter provision as by then the programme had been funded for 3 more years. The recommendations from the reviews, shared with both the HAF internal working group and external partnership advisory group, have been instrumental in helping to set the direction the HAF programme will take in 2022 and beyond.” – Ben Baker, HAF Programme Project Manager, Equality and Participation Team, Children’s Services, East Sussex County Council (Feb 2022)

VRU Podcast in partnership with The Trust for Developing communities

In July, we worked with the Trust for Developing Communities, a local youth work charity, and a group of teenagers from Brighton & Hove to create a series of podcasts. Created during the Covid lockdown, the teenagers discussed youth violence in their city with Sussex Police officers. 

Titled ‘We Ain’t the Same’, the series explores the relationship between young people and the police. It was launched on Spotify in July 2021.

This project was also supported by the Sussex Violence Reduction Partnership.

The Rez for the University of Sussex

Make (Good) Trouble was commissioned to create and distribute content to raise awareness of The Rez, a comic book and podcast series developed by UK Comic Book Laureate Hannah Berry and a team of writers and psychologists, including Robin Banerjee, Professor of Kindness and Head of Psychology at University of Sussex. 

The Rez contains pro-social and emotional well-being messaging about friendship and kindness, designed to help young people prepare to negotiate emotional difficulties and stresses.

We developed a one-day focus group for the University of Sussex, inviting primary age children to assess the effectiveness of The Rez. For our focus groups, we put together fun, interactive and creative sessions to discover what children think. We conduct interviews with children (in groups or on their own, whatever they are comfortable with) as well as taking photographs of the children which may be used for research and promotion, with permission.  

For The Rez, we distributed 220 comics and 20 T-shirts to schools across Sussex. We created targeted social media content to support the launch of The Rez, organising a one-day photoshoot to generate images and video of young people reading the comic, and discussing why they felt it was important to them.

We also began work on a PHSE submission, developing school lesson plans to encourage schools to engage with the messages in The Rez. This work is in progress.

Back on Track foreign language films for Oasis Project

We have worked with charity Oasis Project to create a series of foreign language films aimed to help those affected by problems with alcohol. The videos were aimed to help parents affected by problems with alcohol and created in Russian, Polish and Hungarian. 

Talks and business networks

We have participated in and contributed to talks and local business networking activities with the aim of forging strong links with the community. Founder Daisy Cresswell has given talks at Brighton Chamber and Barclays Eagle Labs events.

How we involve stakeholders in what we do

We have continued to work closely with our stakeholders who are the young people we work with, as well as local parents and guardians. Our work is focused on their needs, and is designed by and for them. Young people are co-creators, and discussions with them and families are integral to every project. 

Make (Good) Trouble’s peer-to-peer model means that we train young co-creators in how to ask ‘clean questions’, Mental Heath First Aid, and media production skills. We involve them in all parts of the creative process, including coming up with new project initiatives. They have been actively involved in every project from inception to delivery. 

“Interviewing children in the HAF Easter Project with Make (Good) Trouble was a really eye-opening experience for me. I was able to see a side of life that I had been somewhat sheltered from previously, and although it upsets me still that millions of children across the UK don’t have the same level of access to food and activities like I did growing up, I was so happy to see the benefit the HAF programme had on them. They all clearly loved it, and were taking part in things they wouldn’t be able to normally. I’m so grateful to Make (Good) Trouble for letting me work alongside them, and feel genuinely proud of this project that helps kids in such a way.”  – Amelie Anastasakis (15), East Sussex Youth Cabinet April 2021

Parents and guardians have been a big focus for 2021/2 post-lockdown, and as we come out of the pandemic. We have listened through social media and other listening initiatives, for example the Raising Teens in Lockdown Facebook group, which we manage entirely ourselves. This has been an excellent platform for picking up on concerns early – for example anxiety in young people, drug use and schooling. We regularly post questions about concerns, and often parents and young people will offer their own views and thoughts.

Stakeholders are also youth workers and teachers and public health teams. We have been involved in consultations with Local Authorities (East Sussex, West Sussex and Brighton & Hove) on a regular basis as well as through our school and FE college networks. These consultations have resulted in new project development as well as support and advice for vulnerable communities and families in Brighton & Hove, East and West Sussex and beyond.