Sound Board

It starts with a conversation. Where it ends? That’s up to you.

Part chat show, part game, part live performance. Sound Board is packed with quick-fire debates, playful challenges, and honest, unscripted moments that spark laughter, reflection, and connection. Touring across England in summer 2025, it brought people together in town squares, festivals, and public spaces to talk, listen, and be heard. Each show unfolded differently, shaped by the energy of the crowd, the stories shared, and the conversations that mattered most in that moment. No scripts. No barriers. No two shows the same.

Put on your headphones, listen in, and see where it takes you.

The Zone

Since launching in Lincoln in 2024, our award-winning pop-up youth space has travelled to towns and city centres across the East Midlands, welcoming thousands of young people with free activities, live shows, gaming and more.

Every time The Zone appeared, the idea was simple: walk in, no cost, no pressure. Some came to create or play, others just to relax with friends. The Zone is shaped by young voices.

It exists because they told us what was missing – a safe place that’s open to everyone.

Chill. Create. Be You.

Refresh

Refresh is a public installation that unleashes the words of local children and young people across towns, cities and public spaces.

Zest meets hundreds of young people in each location through creative workshops designed to make space for them to share anything and everything on their minds.

Their words are then transformed into vibrant artworks, displayed throughout their community. Since 2021, eleven versions of Refresh have been created across the UK.

Refresh places the voices of young people at the heart of their communities, bringing colour and conversation to the places they call home.