Children and young people’s mental health services are in crisis, as government cuts create an ever-widening gap in service provision. Young people are being denied access to hospital beds, travelling cross-country just to access treatment, being forced into inappropriate adult wards, and even prison cells.

Konnichiwa! The Alt Entertainer team invaded Hyper Japan 2014 at London’s Earls Court to review this awesome celebration of all things Japan! We had never seen anything like the live performance of Siro-A, dubbed Japan’s answer to the Blue Man Group. They cleverly use digital projections combined with the movements of the men on stage to create uniquely mesmerising and often humorous effects.

Google certainly thinks so –last week we saw Richard Branson announced the winners of their Google Impact Challenge, which asked UK charities to “change the world through innovative technology”. The answers were impressive. The finalists included: smart glasses for people with sight loss (RNIB), data analytics to keep young people off the streets (Centrepoint) and an online hub helping ex-offenders transition back into the community (St.

Social enterprises Poached Creative and Iridescent Ideas recently teamed up to find out why: “As a social enterprise providing communications services to the social enterprise sector, we wanted to understand the motivations for social impact reporting and identify the barriers for those social enterprises not already doing it.” said Jessica Smith, Director of Poached Creative.

A dog parade, live bands, boxing, and a bouncy castle all featured in the revival of the Chatsworth Road Festival, 34 years after the last festival on the high street. In the 1980s the Chatsworth Road area was a popular place for community events, markets and parades, and the organisers behind the 2013 festival aimed to bring back that same community spirit.

Oii My Size, a web-based project to raise awareness about respect in teen relationships. Late night on the estate, London. Two hooded and capped teen boys hang out, waiting for a couple of teen girls. Nervously the girls approach. Tiana used to go out with Stigz, but she’s not sure about this new guy he’s brought along.