Working on a project influencing policy, strategy or long-term change?

This category is likely a good fit.

This category focuses on how children and young people shape systems, governance and long-term thinking about place.

Projects may vary in scale and stage — from early ideas through to implemented change.

It includes work where their input influences:

• policy

• planning frameworks

• governance or decision-making systems

The key is upstream influence, not project delivery.

What this includes

• Input shaping policy or strategy

• Contributions influencing governance or planning

• Work affecting long-term direction

• Changes to how decisions are made

What counts

• Evidence of policy or strategy change

• Influence on systems or frameworks

• Adoption within organisations or authorities

This doesn’t include

• Project-level design work (→ Regeneration)

• Research without strategic uptake

• Participation without system-level impact

If your work spans multiple areas, choose the category that best represents what was shaped. If it fits within two categories, submit each application separately as an original entry