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Reimagining Health With, Not For, Young People

Where science meets story. Where creativity unlocks care. Where young people aren’t just heard—they lead.

Powering Up wants to close the gap between health services and the young people they are meant to serve by putting young people and ordinary clinicians at the front and centre of radically reimagining healthcare.

Listen Up

Birmingham

Show Up

London

Power Up

The Movement

Young people (ages 15-25) face significant health inequalities. Powering Up is a new approach aimed at bridging this gap by creatively engaging underrepresented youth.

Co-led by young people from the start, we employ community-based methods to foster meaningful conversations between healthcare providers and the communities they serve. Our initiatives in Birmingham and London have begun a transformational journey, reimagining health services together.

Our efforts have already yielded local successes with potential national implications.

Learn more about our impact and join the movement for better, fairer health.‍

🔥Why Powering Up Matters

Young people are falling through the cracks of a broken health system. They’re showing up in A&E when things get desperat —or not showing up at all. Especially those living with inequality, discrimination, or poverty.

We’re here to flip the script. Powering Up helps young people and clinicians co-create solutions—not just in theory, but in their own words, art, and action.

🎨What We Do

Powering Up blends creativity, science, and community to change healthcare from the inside out. We run two flagship programmes:

SHOW UP! – Arts-based workshops in London bridging young people and clinicians through dance, drama, poetry, and design.
LISTEN UP! – Citizen science labs in Birmingham where students become researchers, presenting what health really means in their world.