Why we want your support

Young people need to know about the impact the built environment has on health, well-being, our relationship with place and the environment. They inherit the built environment we make and we have a duty to explain it to them.

They rarely have a voice in built environment processes - planning, designing, making, managing - which shape our cultural experiences, sense of identity and relationship with the planet.

Thornton Education Trust’s objective is to build capacity, within education and among built environment professionals, to create more opportunities for young people to engage in and advocate for a better built environment.

A bottom-up approach to shaping buildings and places - centred on youth participation, co-design, and providing social value - can help to build the next generation of civic-minded, design-conscious people.

The Thornton Education Trust has quickly developed a trusted portfolio of ways to change this narrative. These offer new opportunities for young people, for educationalists, for built environment professionals, and for the built environment industry as a whole - including investors, developers, occupiers - to help build better futures.

TET offers our supporters and sponsors ways of engaging with our people by helping yo to involve them through your projects and through educational activities