A free resource with practical guidance on how to involve young people in building managing places. It is for professionals: developers, designers, planners and sports providers. It is designed to improve participation in and the quality of, new development and regeneration.

YEP! is a non-profit organisation focused on educating young people about urban planning and civic engagement. Their Best Practices publication addresses how to initiate Youth Engagement along with several sample activities.

RIBA supported by the Association of Collaborative Design, Sustrans, and the Landscape Institute, have developed an Engagement Overlay to provide guidance on engagement through each RIBA Plan of Work stage to promote best practice and ensure the most successful and collaborative outcomes.

The toolkit introduces the concept of town planning to young people and to engage them in local planning decisions. It’s a set of activities for: local authority planners, planning consultants, developers, teachers and youth workers, and everyone else interested in engaging children and young people. Tested in a variety of settings, it engages young people directly in decisions on the built environment.

Playful Cities Toolkit provides resources to support local governments, urban practitioners and local communities, to understand the complexity of play in cities, to guide play-based interventions; and to measure their impact. It prioritises and proposes play-based interventions in urban spaces. It includes different tools and practical templates to be used as guides to assist the design process.

My Place Competition was launched by The Glass-House Community Led Design in collaboration with John Mullin and The Academy of Urbanism (AoU). It’s a national competition for children and young people across the UK, which aims to get young people thinking about the places and spaces around them, and how they relate and connect to them.