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Shauna Tiffany Wins King's Trust Young Changemaker Award

Wed, 13 May 2026 21:31:58 GMT

Lighthouse Therapy Hub founder Shauna Tiffany received one of the most prestigious young entrepreneur awards in the country at a ceremony in London. Here is the story behind it.

On the 12th of May 2026, Shauna Tiffany stood on a stage in London and collected The King's Trust National Young Changemaker Award. For anyone who knows Shauna's story, they will understand exactly what that moment meant.

Shauna grew up in the care system. Without a strong family foundation, without a safety net and without the kind of backing that so many people take for granted. She has spoken openly about what that felt like. The uncertainty. The feeling of having to figure everything out alone. The absence of people in your corner when things got hard.

The King's Trust became something different for her. It became the support she never had but always needed.

With guidance from The King's Trust Enterprise programme, Shauna was able to take an idea rooted in her own experience and turn it into something real. That idea became Lighthouse Therapy Hub. A practice built on the belief that play and creative therapy can help rewire the brain, heal childhood trauma and give people the tools to build a life they are proud of. To date, Lighthouse Therapy Hub has helped over 400 people access therapeutic support.

Shauna is now a King's Trust Young Ambassador, working alongside schools and local councils to make sure the right support reaches the people who need it most. Her message is simple and consistent. Finding the right support at the right time changes everything. Especially when you do not have a strong support network to fall back on during the difficult moments.

Receiving the National Young Changemaker Award at a ceremony in London was a recognition not just of what she has built, but of what she represents. A care leaver who took everything she had been through and built something that means other children do not have to go through it alone.

Lighthouse Therapy Hub is proud of everything this award stands for. And we are proud of Shauna.

Shauna Tiffany on Happy Place: Why Play Therapy Changes Everything

Thu, 07 May 2026 21:54:16 GMT

In May 2026, Lighthouse Therapy Hub founder Shauna Tiffany sat down with Fearne Cotton on the Happy Place podcast. Honest, warm and completely herself, Shauna delivered one of the most compelling conversations the podcast has seen.

Shauna talked about growing up in foster care. About the shame that followed her for years. About feeling like the choices made around her somehow said something about her worth. These are not easy things to say out loud. But Fearne created the kind of space that made it possible, and Shauna met that with a level of openness and courage that left listeners genuinely moved.

Running through the whole conversation was play therapy. Shauna shared how creative and play-based approaches helped her begin to make sense of her own childhood, giving her a language for things she had never been able to name. That personal experience became the foundation for Lighthouse Therapy Hub, a practice built on the belief that creativity unlocks what words alone never could.

Then came the moment nobody saw coming.

Live on the podcast, Fearne revealed that Shauna had won The King's Trust National Young Changemaker Award. The shock was real. The emotion was real. And the experience of receiving that award on stage at the Royal Albert Hall shortly afterwards is something Shauna will never forget.

That day in London was a reflection of everything Lighthouse Therapy Hub stands for. Every child who grows up feeling unseen deserves a space to be heard. Every adult still carrying the weight of a difficult childhood deserves the tools to put it down. That is what this practice was built for.

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Change a Girl's Life: Why This Campaign Matters to Us

Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:48:58 GMT

Lighthouse Therapy Hub founder Shauna Tiffany on The King's Trust campaign that is changing the lives of young women across the UK.

Shauna Tiffany knows what it feels like to be a young woman facing the world without a safety net.

Growing up in foster care, she experienced first-hand what it means to navigate life without the foundations that so many take for granted. No stable home. No consistent support. No clear path forward. Just a young person trying to make sense of a world that had not always been kind to her.

That is why The King's Trust Change a Girl's Life campaign means so much to her personally.

The campaign, which has been backed by the Watches of Switzerland Group as headline sponsor for a second consecutive year, exists to support young women facing barriers to education, employment and training. It is not about charity. It is about recognising that talent, ambition and potential are everywhere. But opportunity is not.

For Shauna, Lighthouse Therapy Hub is her contribution to that same mission. Every child who comes through the door, every young person who finally finds a space to be heard, every woman who decides that her past does not have to define her future. That is what Change a Girl's Life looks like in practice.

Shauna was awarded The King's Trust National Young Changemaker Award in 2026, recognised for the work she has built through Lighthouse Therapy Hub and for what she represents as a care leaver who refused to let her circumstances become her ceiling.

She is proud to champion this campaign. Not because of what it says about her, but because of what it says about what becomes possible when the right people decide to show up for young women who need it most.

To find out more about The King's Trust Change a Girl's Life campaign visit https://events.kingstrust.org.uk/event/change-a-girls-life/home