Foreword from our CEO

#NeverMoreNeeded

NHS digital has just released data on young people’s mental health. It shows that in 2017, ‘one in nine’ young people were presenting to NHS with diagnosable mental health conditions. That same survey was conducted at scale after the first lockdown, and the results show that the ratio of those presenting with diagnosable conditions is now significantly higher at ‘one in six’. We only anticipate that this has worsened over the second and third lockdowns. Mental health services are strained and, with the best will in the world, not all young people engage with or respond well to talking therapies.

“Never more needed” is a term I’m hearing more and more. As a slogan, it is designed to highlight the need for the agility and effectiveness of charitable and social enterprise organisations like Noise Solution. Over the last year, we’ve epitomised agility and effectiveness, and our use of digital tools to do so has enabled us to easily capture the digital data to demonstrate that impact. Noise Solution has the combination of digital skills and understanding to engage young people to impact on their levels of motivation and well-being in a way that doesn’t ‘problematise’ or ‘medicalise’ them. Again and again, our programmes create the conditions that enable young people to choose to flourish, reaffirming that we are indeed #NeverMoreNeeded

Simon Glenister, CEO