Our projects

We are partners in a huge NIHR national initiative as part of Blackpool’s Health Determinants Research Collaboration (named Blackpool Researching Together). BBF are supporting young Co-researchers to make Blackpool Council more evidence informed.

Informed by our understanding of resilience, we believe that activism has the potential to offer a radically different way of promoting young people’s health and resilience through campaigning for socially just systems change.

Public health, community groups and organisations, and researchers are joining forces in three coastal communities; Blackpool, Hastings and Weston Super Mare. Together, we aim to understand how organisations help our wellbeing, what barriers we might face accessing them, and where the gaps in services are.

This programme was established to increase the engagement of under-represented communities in health research. We are pioneering an approach to community-led co-research where we are designing a research project from the ground up ourselves.

We are part of a new Youth Co-research Collective in Cumbria!  Alongside Carlisle Youth Zone and the University of Cumbria, BBF has been enlisted to support a group in Cumbria to Get Co-Research Ready. We are coming together as young people (12 – 17yrs), peer youth leaders (18 – 21yrs), established Youth Co-researchers and adults in Youth Worker and Academic roles.