Creative Youth Voice - Third Sector Awards 2025 Finalist (Best Use of Social Media)
In 2025, my work in creative youth voice and digital activism was shortlisted for the Third Sector Awards in the category Best Use of Social Media. This award recognises projects and individuals using online platforms in powerful, innovative, and socially impactful ways.
Being named a finalist is a significant acknowledgement of the way I use truth-telling, storytelling, and lived experience to create real change across digital spaces.
My Creative Youth Voice Work
My shortlisting for the Third Sector Awards came from a body of work that has been building for years - using creativity, communication, and lived experience to challenge tokenism and reimagine what youth voice can look like.
My practice centres on telling the truths that often get avoided: neurodivergence, trauma, institutional harm, loneliness, survival, and what happens when systems dismiss or silence young people. Through digital storytelling, performance, and creative activism, I use social media as a space for connection, honesty, and disruption - a place where young people can see themselves reflected without filters or judgement.
This work is about more than awareness. It is about shifting culture.
Through collaborations with organisations like The Mighty Creatives, I’ve helped reframe youth participation from “being in the room” to being listened to, leading, creating, and shaping the narrative. My writing and consultancy emphasise true co-production - not speaking for young people, but creating platforms where lived experience is centred, respected, and valued.
Across my content and creative projects, I support young people to name their needs, challenge harmful norms, and feel less alone in experiences that are too often hidden or minimised. This is the foundation of my youth voice work: turning lived experience into power, and transforming visibility into change.
This is the work that led to the shortlisting - not just social media, but a sustained, unapologetic commitment to making young people’s stories impossible to ignore.
