We want to empower children and young people engagement in the built environment!

We want to empower children and young people engagement in the built environment!

The saying “young people are the future” is especially relevant to how and where we live, work and play.

Yet young people are often excluded from decisions about the built environment, despite being its future inheritors. This lack of engagement limits their understanding of the built environment's impact on health, well-being, and sustainability, while also missing opportunities to harness and develop their creativity, skills and insights.

TET is dedicated to creating a stepchange.

  1. Empower Young People: Equip children and young people with the skills, confidence, and opportunities to shape their environments.

  2. Build Capacity in Education and Industry: Foster a culture of CYP engagement within schools, universities, architectural practices, local authorities, and development companies.

  3. Inspire Best Practice: Showcase, celebrate and amplify excellence in engagement and participatory design to create benchmarks for the built environment and educatoion sector.

How we do all of this?

Development of our knowledge hub: ‘community of practice’

We share and use our knowledge and expertise gleaned from yours and our own experience of engagement and participation in three main ways:

✴︎ ENGAGE TOOLKIT

✴︎ TET DIALOGUES

✴︎ RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

Showcasing excellence in engagement

We celebrate annually projects through children and young people engagement and participatory design in the built environment throughout two programmes.

✴︎ INSPIRE AWARDS

✴︎ IMAGINE AWARDS

About us

TET is a charity committed to inspiring children and young people to engage with the built environment. We create opportunities that connect education, design, and ground-level experiences, helping children and young people develop skills, confidence, and curiosity. Want to learn more about our work? Visit our ‘What We Do’ page at the top. We believe collaboration drives change. That’s why we actively build partnerships with organisations and individuals who share our vision.

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