Children and young people
Our funding opportunity for local community organisations – Young Voices Fund 2026 – is now closed. We will publish information about the activities we are funding in late August. Thank you to everyone for your interest.
Help us hear the views of children and young people:
Young Voices Fund 2026
We want to hear what children and young people in North Tyneside think about health and care — what matters to them, where they get their information from, what is working well and what could be improved.
Healthwatch North Tyneside is committed to hearing the views and experiences of all parts of our community. However, we recognise that we are not specialists in working with children and young people.
We have therefore set up a small grant fund to support local voluntary sector organisations to engage with the children and young people they work with.
Grants of up to £2,500 are available for local VCSE organisations. You can find full details about the fund and what we are aiming to achieve here. The deadline for applications is Wednesday July 29.
If you would like more information or want to discuss a project idea, please contact Mary Low at m.low@hwnt.co.uk or call 0191 263 5321.
PREVIOUS PROJECTS
Young people’s mental health
Healthwatch funded four local organisations to work with young people to better understand their experiences of health and care services and improve the information available to them.
Young people came together to work on this new resource from Phoenix Detached Youth Project, Barnardos The Base, North Tyneside Council’s Participation Team, Launchpad North Tyneside, CAMHS and other organisations.
They identified the services that they used and they found helpful. The young people helped to design the leaflet so that it would be useful to their peers.
The project was led by Phoenix Detached Youth Project. Healthwatch North Tyneside funded the printing of 10,000 of these and we are helping to distribute to schools, GP practices, young people’s organisations and services.
Contact becky@pdyp.org if you would like copies to share.
‘Help yourself’ support for young people
Hearing young people’s voices
In December 2017 we awarded our Local Voices Fund to Barnardo’s The BASE to understand how to best communicate with ‘seldom heard’ young people about their health needs and wellbeing.
Go to The Base website