We’re a social impact organisation on a mission to challenge the status quo and create real change for young people, families and communities.
Through youth-led co-creation, we design content, deliver research, and shape strategies that put young people at the heart of everything — because they’re not just participants in change, they’re the ones leading it.
What we do
🎥 Create powerful digital and creative content
📊 Evaluate and shape youth services and strategies
🔍 Research what young people think, feel and need
🎭 Run workshops that build confidence, communication and technical skills
From podcasts to policy recommendations, we co-produce everything with young people — developing their ideas, amplifying their voices, and making sure their experiences shape the systems that affect them.
Why arts and digital media?
Our team brings a strong background in the arts, digital media and storytelling — and we fuse these disciplines for a reason. Creativity is a powerful tool for connection, expression and learning. By combining digital skills with creative confidence, we support young people to find their voice, tell their stories, and share them in ways that resonate deeply with their peers.
This approach doesn’t just teach technical skills — it helps young people feel proud of what they create, confident in who they are, and empowered to spark conversations that matter.
Why we do it
Because children and young people today face challenges that too often go unheard — and we’re here to change that.
We build safe, creative, peer-led spaces where young people can explore identity, develop emotional resilience, and speak for themselves — not be spoken for.
Everything we do is designed through the eyes of the child — and we work with families, schools, professionals and policymakers to help them do the same.
Who we work with
We collaborate with:
- Local authorities, Public Health & the NHS
- Educators, youth workers, researchers, creatives & policy makers
- Charities and social interest organisations
- Parents, carers and families
- And, most importantly — young people themselves
We’re part of the RSA’s Cities of Learning programme and issue Badge Nation digital badges to recognise skills gained through our projects — with over 150 awarded so far.
Want to collaborate?
Whether you’re a funder, educator, service provider or young person — if you want to help create a better future for young people, we’d love to hear from you.
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What people say about Make (Good) Trouble
“Daisy and Tayler did a fantastic job of facilitating a poster and podcast recording workshop for our youth researchers. They created such a relaxed, welcoming space for the youth researchers to have their voices heard and express themselves creatively. Their warm personalities and enthusiasm for encouraging young people’s creativity was excellent and made for a fantastic day. Thank you both SO much!”
— Gemma Neathey, Senior Participation Office, Quality & Performance, Children, Families and Lifelong Learning, Surrey Youth Voice – Surrey County Council
“Our impact would have been a fraction of what it is without Make (Good) Trouble. We’re working with them again and look forward to more. They are great.”
— Martin Spinelli, Professor of Podcasting, University of Sussex
“I can’t put into words how brilliant this [podcast] show is. It could be life-saving for someone going through something similar.”
— Young person, Raising Teens podcast contributor
“Our Barking & Dagenham and Islington Youth Ambassadors recently took part in media training with with co-founders Daisy and Tayler at Make (Good) Trouble. They had the opportunity to use professional media equipment and gained valuable knowledge and skills to support their future careers 👏”
— Ben Kinsella Trust
“This is our son’s 4th year of coming along to Make (Good) Trouble’s Holiday Drama Club. It would be no surprise to you, that he absolutely loves it. In his words it’s one of his safe places, he feels happy and relaxed here and ‘they understand me’. He was a very different boy when he first came along at 9 years old. The last few years have been immensely difficult for him. Struggling to cope with life, his ADHD/ASD, past trauma and medical issues.
He has come a long way since then, becoming more confident, more positive, dealing with tricky situations better, more social and believing in himself more. Make (Good) Trouble has been an important part of his journey, helping him in so many ways. His eyes light up each time he knows he is booked on and counts down the days to when it starts. He has sense of proudness and talks with such enthusiasm in the days leading up to when it starts.
From the bottom of our hearts, we just want to say a very big ‘Thank you’ for the amazing work you do and for helping put a smile back on our son’s face.”
— Parent
📸 Main image: Lotti Terry (20)
Make (Good) Trouble is proud to be an accredited Living Wage Employer.