Somewhere to go: building spaces where young people are free to exist
How Platfform’s Power Up project took a collaborative, young people-led approach to creating a place away from online toxicity, where fears and hopes could be shared.

Sam Guppy-Green
Power Up project
How Platfform’s Power Up project took a collaborative, young people-led approach to creating a place away from online toxicity, where fears and hopes could be shared.
James Radcliffe
'The energy price cap, while welcome, won’t address the fears of those dreading winter in a cold house. It won’t stop their savings being eaten away. And it won’t undo the damage done to our collective health’ - our Head of Policy explains the need for deeper change.
Reehana Joiya
I am working to create change at Platfform, to ensure that there is an equal playing field for all, and to help make us an organisation that reflects a wider range of backgrounds and experiences.
Guest Contributor
If a kindness lens helps us reflect more compassionately on our own motives for being and doing then that can bring enlightenment, which can, in turn, motivate change, it has for me.
Bryony Shannon
Practice Development Officer
Language is the most powerful tool we have. Let’s use it well.
Johann Hari
TED
In this thought-provoking talk, journalist and author Johann Hari shares fresh insights on the causes of depression and anxiety from experts around the world - as well as some emerging solutions.
Amy Middleton
PTS Coach at Mayday Trust
The value of building positive networks can’t be overlooked.
Guest Contributor
The simplicity and accessibility of kindness is a powerful call to action, it can tie us deeply to collectives of friends, families and groups, and to causes bigger than ourselves.
Guest Contributor
A book full of wisdom, experience and a passion for change that we cannot recommend enough.
Pat McArdle
Chief Operating Officer, Mayday Trust
When did it happen that we became so system led not human led, when did ticking the boxes become more important than doing what’s right for that person.