At Fullscope, we work alongside charities supporting children and young people, across our network, one thing has always been clear: fun matters. Not as an optional extra, but as a vital ingredient in building trust, enabling learning, supporting wellbeing and helping children and young people thrive.

“I think it’s important that children have a say, because even though we don’t get to vote we are still a part of the community.”

Bethany (aged 10), The Shade Primary School, speaking as part of a panel of experts in the Houses of Parliament, November 2025 

Meg Platt shares her reflections on our recent event An Invitation to Think: partnerships, relationships and young people’s voice.

Emily Dowdeswell shares her reflections on A Call For Being Together Differently, a workshop at our recent event.

Hattie Greaves and Juliet Snell share more on their part in Fullscope’s recent event where partners and stakeholders exchanged ideas and expertise.

Pip Gardner’s recent workshop at Fullscope’s event led them to consider whether LGBTQ+ youth have complex needs or are faced with a complicated system to navigate.

Read all about our inaugural system event that brought the whole Fullscope community together to think about how we can do things differently.

We’ve just released our latest framework: Involving children, young people and their families. Read on for more details on what it entails.

We’re pleased to announce the launch of our autumn series of workshops, Understanding self-harm available to professionals working with young people in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

Phase 2 was marked by a creative collaboration resulting in an animated film about self-harm, Ask Me How I Am.

We’re very excited to announce that we’ve received funding from the national lottery community fund to enable us to continue the important work of fullscope for a further 3 years.

We’re pleased to share a recent evaluation of the Fullscope consortium, conducted by eminent researchers, Harry Deacon and Dr Angela Aristidou at UCL School of Management.

We’ve been looking back at the last 3 years and reflecting on the work we’ve done and we’re sharing our findings.

Co-production, for Fullscope, is a way of designing and delivering support for children, young people and their families (CYPF) which places CYPF at the centre of the development process, recognising them as experts by their own experience.

Learn more about Fullscope’s role in change and how our  system response to mental health and wellbeing in today’s England demands a bold and radical change of direction.