We believe the world's first Garden City should be a great place for every child and young person to grow up. Working with local partners, we aim to improve life chances, reduce child poverty and create opportunities for young people to learn, stay active, explore their creativity and build meaningful connections. By putting young people's voices at the heart of decision-making, we’re helping shape a better future for Letchworth.
For the latest updates on our projects and progress towards this aim, visit our Our Impact page, updated quarterly to reflect our ongoing work and achievements.
2025 Highlights
- Building strong partnerships: Worked collaboratively with more than 40 local partner organisations to improve outcomes for children, young people and families.
- Amplifying young people's voices: Established the Letchworth Youth Voice Forum in partnership with The Mighty Creatives, creating opportunities for young people to influence decisions affecting their town.
- Making activities more accessible: Our Play! Discover! Share! and Hello Holidays programmes offered free and low-cost creative, cultural and family activities, with almost 2,000 participants across the year.
- Supporting mental health and wellbeing: Selected Growing Resilience in Teams (GRIT) as our charity partner for the next two years, supporting young people aged 11–24 to build confidence, resilience and life skills.
- Opening up cultural opportunities: Into Film activities welcomed 3,500 pupils, teachers and helpers to free film screenings, while free theatre tickets worth £4,148 benefited 450 local people.
- Investing in community projects: Awarded grants to support parent peer support, inclusive events, sports participation, disability sport and community services.
Progress Against Strategy 2028
- A strong network of partners: Continued bringing organisations together around six pillars: Keep Moving, Live Well, Be Curious, Join In, Get Creative and Step Outside.
- Better learning, health and wellbeing: Delivered activities and partnerships spanning education, sport, creativity, culture and nature, helping children and young people access a wider range of opportunities.
- Youth participation: Developed Youth Voice principles to help ensure young people are involved in shaping programmes and decisions that affect their lives.
- Joined-up delivery: Worked across our teams and with local partners to connect cultural, leisure and nature-based opportunities with the wider Great Place to Grow Up programme.
Priorities for 2026
- Grow the Play! Discover! Share! programme, working towards engaging more than 4,000 young people.
- Develop a new youth collective to give young people a stronger, more coordinated voice across Letchworth.
- Continue working with partners to improve access to opportunities that support learning, health, wellbeing and personal development.
- Build on our existing programmes to help reduce child poverty and improve life chances.
Our ambition is to create a town where every child and young person has the opportunities, support and connections they need to thrive.
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