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The directors present their report with the financial statements of the company for the period ended 28 February 2024
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Directors
The directors shown below have held office during the whole of the period from
1 March 2023
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28 February 2024
The above report has been prepared in accordance with the special provisions in part 15 of the Companies Act 2006
This report was approved by the board of directors on
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Make (Good) Trouble (MGT) works alongside a diverse range of young people, families and professionals to open up new paths of access to professional and peer support for mental health and promote emotional wellbeing. Over the year, we have provided 38 free in-person workshops and training sessions to just under 200 young people in East Sussex, around 35% of whom have additional needs. Our sessions have focused on creativity, building emotional intelligence, and developing thinking and communication skills. The continuing effects of the cost-of-living crisis, the pandemic and worries about the climate crisis are adversely impacting young people’s mental health. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s recent report, ’Destitution in the UK’ (https://www.jrf.org.uk/deep-poverty-and-destitution/destitution-in-the-uk-2023), makes for sobering reading. A million children experienced destitution in 2022, around three times higher than in 2017. They produced an interactive map of destitution. Local to us, Brighton & Hove has a high destitution rank of four (five is highest). Again this year, MGT has pursued projects that support young people, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds and those with special educational needs, to improve their skills and confidence, reduce social isolation, and promote wellbeing. In April 2023, we celebrated five years in business. Our aim then was to reduce mental ill-health in young people. Whilst that aim hasn’t changed, it has grown to encompass a more holistic approach to wellbeing, happiness and building emotional intelligence. Investing in our people In January 2024, co-founder, Tayler Cresswell, was awarded a Diploma in Systemic Coaching. Over the next year, we aim to train other members of the team to coach. We want to use coaching to help young people see and understand the world and systems around them, to empower them to create their own stories, to re-shape those systems, and find or create new systems to engage in. We aim to use coaching to help the team and the wider community to properly understand their world: how we relate to people, engage with people, and how we communicate. We have built on last year’s training in Most Significant Change (MSC) by putting the MSC methodology into practice and training other members of our own team. We believe that MSC is a strong evaluation tool that can help inform the future direction and effectiveness of a programme based on direct learning from participants. This has been put into practice for The Catalyst programme for East Sussex County Council (ESCC) and for Sound Waves Foundation, a charity supporting the needs of deaf children. We have also developed new training sessions for young people based on interview skills to build their confidence and communication skills. These workshops are driven by a desire to help build social skills in young people after seeing a marked decline in recent years. Forty-two percent of parents of 12-15-year-olds reported a decline in their child’s social and emotional development, with 4-7-year-olds faring even worse at 52%, according to a report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Social skills are seen as increasingly important in a future driven by automation in the workplace. MGT is accredited on the Badge Nation scheme, accredited by the Royal Society of Arts and City & Guilds, and we have awarded over 150 Digital Badges to young people who have taken part in our programmes across the South East of England. All the projects we have been involved in this year (outlined below) have helped to further our goal of improving wellbeing and outcomes for young people and families. They have helped us to highlight the issues that affect young people and provide them with a platform to share their views and have a say in initiatives that would affect their future. OUR PROJECTS Raising Teens Our Raising Teens brand develops content and support aimed at parents of teenagers. Raising Teens for BBC Radio We produced a fifth series of our BBC radio show and podcast, Raising Teens, which was broadcast on BBC Radio Sussex and Surrey in January and February 2024. Over six episodes, we explored issues around how young people access mental health and wellbeing services; what help is available for children with complex needs; eating disorders, and the journey to getting a diagnosis for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It was supported by NHS Sussex. Each episode uses teen stories - gathered by Make (Good) Trouble’s young reporter Lola Ray - in a roundtable discussion by experts. The show aims to bring together those involved in supporting and raising teens to dispel myths around teen mental health and to offer practical help and tips. All episodes in series five (and all previous series) are available in perpetuity on BBC Sounds, providing a brilliant, easily accessible resource for young people and families. One young person who told us her story for the series, messaged us to say: “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!” Raising Teens Facebook Group We continue to support parents and young people through our Facebook group, which was set up during lockdown in 2021. The group has become instrumental in helping us to reach families who need help.Group membership has risen to over 2,000 – which includes families and mental health professionals from 41 different countries and regularly offers professional support to families in need of advice. Department for Education-funded Holiday Activity and Food Programme (HAF) for East Sussex County Council (ESCC) In 2023, over the Easter, summer and winter holidays, we took 43 young people out to the South Downs National Park for our holiday clubs which are part of the ESCC Holiday Activities and Food programme. Through this programme, we offer free activities to young people in receipt of benefits-related free school meals. Of the 43 young people that participated, 63% had additional needs. We collaborated with Dragon Drama to offer drama workshops to build confidence; we went on wildlife walks; took part in beach combing and litter picking; and learnt about conservation with a qualified woodland ranger. One parent commented: “I would love this to be a permanent thing. Getting kids outside, getting them active, muddy, rolling round, running about, is so good for them. Then of course they were ravenous, and it was great that there was varied, healthy food. Best holiday club ever!” The Catalyst The Catalyst is a free, two-year creative programme commissioned by ESCC Public Health as part of their Creative Health programme. MGT has run 16 sessions over this year for over 80 young people in East Sussex, particularly those with additional needs/SEND. The Catalyst’s aim is to build local young people’s personal and cultural wellbeing; develop creative and digital skills and insights into professional practice; reduce loneliness and isolation through the development of a creative network and thriving peer community; and evaluate the programme and contribute to the growing evidence base on the benefits of the arts to improve health and wellbeing. The programme runs to autumn 2024 and invites young people to explore, create and debate in structured workshops across East Sussex where they can work with artists, photographers, film makers, and sound designers, and sign up for a mentor who offers career and wellbeing support and advice. Sound Waves Make (Good) Trouble was commissioned by Sound Waves Foundation, a charity for deaf children, to evaluate the effectiveness of using live captioning in schools. Live captioning is a speech-to-text AI technology which is easy to use and readily available for free, making it simple and cost-effective for any school or organisation to adopt. We used MSC as an evaluation tool and spoke to deaf and hearing children at a primary school about their experiences of using live captioning in their classroom. Our findings were that live captioning not only benefited pupils who are deaf but also made significant, positive differences to the learning experiences of those with special educational needs. ARC KSS - youth research partnership The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) is the nation’s largest funder of health and care research and provides the people, facilities and technology that enables research to thrive. Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) support applied health and care research that responds to, and meets, the needs of local populations and local health and care systems. As part of this programme, Make (Good) Trouble was commissioned to provide young YMCA Downslink youth researchers with best practice interview techniques training which included: Safeguarding, boundaries and consent Organising their interviews Understanding the many different types of interviews Preparing your interviews in advance Ice breakers - creating rapport with the interviewee Manage nerves Extend lines of enquiry - keeping conversations flowing and on track Becoming an active listener Body language and reading the room Checklists and ‘pick-ups’ Clean language Following up Top Tips (take away) Prior to the training session, additional time was spent attending the weekly YMCA youth research evening sessions, for our team to fully understand the young researchers’ ambitions and research topics. To ensure the training was relevant to their needs, we included audio clips of interviews from MGT’s BBC Radio series Raising Teens, which is designed to support young people navigate difficult mental health issues. These clips had been picked and edited in advance of the session to align with the youth researchers’ lines of enquiry. This research was funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Applied Research Collaboration, Kent, Surrey, Sussex. The Rez for the University of Sussex The Rez is an exciting collaboration between academics at the University of Sussex, MGT and Arts Council England. It is a sci-fi podcast adventure for 7-11-year-olds told through a comic book and a game-based website, designed to help young people prepare to negotiate emotional difficulties and stresses. The Rez is created by recent UK Comic Laureate Hannah Berry, alongside a team of writers and psychologists. MGT was engaged to produce content to raise awareness of The Rez, including a Key Stage 2 lesson plan, Quality Assured by the PSHE Association, which has now been updated to include alternative options for pupils with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). Over 1.5 million children have special educational needs, according to government statistics – an increase of 87,000 on 2022. The Rez lesson plans have been downloaded 8,600 times, and The Rez podcast has been downloaded 850,000 times. We felt it was important to work with the University of Sussex and the PSHE Association to develop guides and lesson plans that include pupils with SEND. We work with a lot of young people who have additional needs, and it’s great to offer more practical support and visually engaging content to enhance their experience in the classroom. Teaching about kindness supports pupils with SEND in meeting learning outcomes around ‘Self Awareness’, as outlined in the PSHE Association’s Planning Framework, and helps teachers to cover statutory content about ‘Caring friendships’ from the Department for Education’s RSHE guidance. Free workshop: Helping young people better understand their finances In collaboration with Barclays, we ran a free ‘Understanding Finances’ workshop for local sixth form students. As they tucked into pizzas, we discussed what young people need to know about money and finances before they start work, apprenticeships, or university. 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 financial goals. Talks and business networks Our co-founder, Daisy Cresswell was invited to be MC at the 2023 Brighton Summit, run by Brighton’s Chamber of Commerce, a great route to networks and connections in the business community. Around 400 delegates attended the event, and it was Daisy’s job to move them smoothly through the line-up of speakers, workshops and experiences, including introductions and interviews with speakers. Daisy has been invited back to MC at the 2024 Summit in October 2024.Daisy also featured on an edition of The EdTech Podcast: ‘Making EdTech More Inclusive’ to discuss our work with Sound Waves Foundation and looking at how we can help all young people learn better in the classroom.
Stakeholders: Children and young people MGT’s stakeholders are the young people we work with along with their parents and guardians. The young people involved in every project we run are co-creators, and we hold discussions with them and their families to inform projects from inception to delivery. The projects are focused on building emotional intelligence and improving their wellbeing, based on their needs. Over the year we have provided 38 free workshops and training sessions to just under 200 young people in East Sussex, with a focus on reaching those with additional needs. This year at least 35% of the young people we worked with had additional needs. Stakeholders: Parents and carers Listening to our stakeholders is central to the work we do. Our Raising Teens Facebook group, which is managed solely by MGT, now stands at over 2,000 members. We use this group to reach parents and carers from the local community and further afield. It helps us to catch concerns early, such as the effects of the cost-of-living crisis, school refusals and teen anxiety. These concerns and issues help us to target communications through our newsletter and social media activity. They also help provide ideas for future projects. We have started a monthly newsletter to discuss and respond to news stories that affect parents and young people. It has a positive focus on what worried parents, carers and families can do about current issues. Stakeholders: Youth workers, professionals, teachers and public health teams We have been involved in discussions and consultations with youth workers, professionals, teachers and public health teams including those in Local Authorities (East Sussex, West Sussex and Brighton & Hove) and 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, Sussex and beyond. Stakeholders: Our Trouble Makers Our young reporter and producer, Lola, left us in November to spend some time travelling. She has joined the MGT Advisory Group, so we won’t be losing her altogether. Lola said, “It's been so special to be part of Make (Good) Trouble. And that it is something that has completely changed my life. And I don't think I would be where I am today without it because I've learned so much. It's so enriching, and the next person to come and work here is going to be very lucky to be a part of a team. All we've accomplished, from starting in Daisy's kitchen, not really knowing any of you, to five years later - it's started me off in life, really. And I think if I'd worked anywhere else, I wouldn't have been so enriched as I've been with Make (Good) Trouble.”
The total amount paid or receivable by directors in respect of qualifying services was £36,000.
No transfer of assets other than for full consideration
This report was approved by the board of directors on
20 September 2024
And signed on behalf of the board by:
Name: T G Hirst
Status: Director