We worked with with Fullscope partner Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination and artist colleagues to explore creative approaches to listening to and learning from children, young people and their carers. Resources were developed as part of the Branching Out and Creative Care projects.

Companionship Compass - Children involved in Artscaping, a practice focused on nature connectedness, helped to develop a Companionship Compass to support adults interested in working in these ways.

A Call for Being Together Differently draws together the learning from families and practitioners taking part in Creative Care. This paper based sculptural output was designed to stimulate new conversations and possibility thinking. We think of it as a manifesto for creative involvement. Read it here.

Artscaping: A guide to establishing arts-in-nature opportunities in your school
This guide was written with colleagues from the UCL Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education, and Anglia Ruskin University, and offers an introduction to the practice of Artscaping. Access the guide and read more about Artscaping here. 

Fullscope has been working in Cambridgeshire & Peterborough’s children and young people’s mental health system since 2019; one many find overwhelming and complex, and where the voices of children and young people and their communities often go unheard, despite the wisdom they hold.

Our vision is for a culture where ‘careFull co-design’, as described by our principles, are a permanent feature of the mental health system. These aim to cultivate shared power, trust and ongoing reflection, ensuring children, young people, their families and communities meaningfully influence the services that affect their lives.

Download our CareFull Co-Design principles (2026)

Download our Framework for Involving Children, Young People and Families (2024).

Researchers from The Open University and the Fullscope Collaboration explored the question – what if fun is actually essential? Read this summary of why fun is fundamental to learning along with recommendations for charities, policymakers and think tanks.

The Help You, Help Them website was co-created with young people in Our Voices.
Read more about our thinking here.

Led by The Kite Trust, this research sought to identify significant or recurring barriers to accessing mental health services, find solutions to remove, lessen or overcome these barriers, and improve young person’s (aged 16-25) experiences of accessing mental health services. Read the report here.

East Cambridgeshire Integrated Neighbourhood, commissioned the creative project Mapping Soham Stories to listen to all the primary aged children in Soham. The following are the resulting ‘What Matters to Us’ resources. Read more about our thinking and watch a short film made with the children here.

A summary of the children’s key ideas and recommendations.

A free guide for primary schools interested in undertaking a similar listening exercise.

This infographic summarises our work to date.
Read more about our thinking here.

Our 2026 report, Space Matters, shares learning from Fullscope and Centre 33’s work exploring how physical space affects young people's willingness to access support, written following engagement with 138 young people aged 11 – 25.

The film Ask me how I am, co-designed with young people, forms the basis of training workshops for professionals. These were themselves co-designed with teachers, GPs, mental health practitioners and parents and carers.

If you are a professional interested in accessing the workshops, get in touch.

A summary of the research to date is here.