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The National Youth Agency: Seventy and rising: Participation Works across the third sector

Kicking off the 70th Participation Works Hear by Right workshop across England, The National Youth Agency's Harry Wade and Jake Manning soon realised something was amiss: the box containing delegate packs and all the resources had arrived safely in London and has promptly been returned to Leicester. Undaunted, they led another powerful event on building in the participation of children and young people through using Hear by Right to help improve services so they get a better deal.

Spanning small and large local organisations, covering housing and homelessness, dance and theatre, early years, youth inclusion and youth projects, as well as umbrella groups - participants reflected on the scale and scope of the third sector and its crucial contribution to children and young people fulfilling their potential. This same rich diversity has been evident across all of the workshops so far, reaching more than 1,200 people from over 900 community and voluntary organisations. But with over 100,000 voluntary sector organisations across the country, was this the end, or just the beginning?

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