Whatever Makes You Happy
Are you misunderstood?
Is there no one you know who gets you?
Do you find it challenging dealing with mental health or at you at risk of developing it?
Then don’t be afraid of coming to one of our meetings where we have people your age who have success stories and tips on how they tackled mental health.
YOU’RE NOT ALONE

WHATEVER MAKES YOU HAPPY (WMYH) is a new and innovative agenda for our company. Having conducted a long period of research and development, we are pleased to celebrate the beginning of a period of pioneering work including…

Whatever Youth Arts, a new three year drama and arts programme, in partnership with CAMHS, for the most vulnerable young people in our community. 
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Shout, Drama workshops for young people aged 13 - 21 who have moderate learning difficulties.  This is your chance to learn drama skills, make plays, perform to audiences and HAVE FUN!
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Routes, This award-winning project, working with Meadowgate on the school buses, with young people with severe complex and enduring special educational needs. Young people take part in creative workshops with professional artists on their bus journeys to and from school.
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Fresh Fm, Host your own radio programme & become the hottest new radio presenter on the airwaves.
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Whatever Theatre programme, challenging professional theatre exploring young people’s happiness and safety and

Happy Learning: A brand new workshop and theatre programme for schools, targeting young people with Early Years; EAL, SEN and BESD.

Background
WHATEVER Makes You Happy is a new initiative for Greenwich & Lewisham Young People’s Theatre, launched in 2011. It seeks specifically to increase good mental health and wellbeing amongst vulnerable young people using drama and the arts to build confidence, self-esteem and resilience skills, and to challenge prejudice through the power of theatre. It follows 10 years of groundbreaking practice with refugees and asylum-seekers, and several other projects with Looked After children, young carers, young people with learning difficulties and disabilities and young survivors of domestic abuse. The WHATEVER agenda will operate across the whole company and will include a drama group for young people with moderate learning difficulties, intervention work in schools, theatre that raises awareness about bullying and mental health problems and specialist support for young people with barriers to inclusion to join our mainstream youth theatre.

"It’s made me gain more friends and made me face your fear of getting up on stage and performing. It has been really fun and I recommend everyone with learning difficulties coming, because it gave me a chance to mix with new people as I had trouble making new friends." (Participant)

"For CAMHS, Whatever Youth Arts has been a great way to work more closely with the voluntary sector, increase access to services and help to destigmatise mental health issues. We hope to be able to work with GLYPT again to run another programme in future."
(Linda Devlin, Service Manager for Greenwich CAMHS)

“Better than a 3D Movie!”
(Year 5 student after seeing The Hunchback of Notre Dame)

"Whatever Makes You Happy" project funded by BBC Children in Need

(Pilot progamme was supported by Help A Capital Child)