Understand your fatigue. Find what works for you.
Take Charge! helps children and young people understand fatigue, work out what it is like for them, find things that might help, and tell other people what they need.
For children and young people aged 5–19 who experience fatigue with disability or a long-term health condition.
“Fatigue isn’t just being tired.”
Young people and families describe the difference between ordinary tiredness and fatigue — including why rest does not always fully recharge the battery.
What can Take Charge! help me do?
Use the whole journey, jump to what you need, or go directly to My Power Bank.
What fatigue is.
What it looks like for me.
What might help.
Ways to understand energy.
What others can do.
Put it all together.
Different people. Different fatigue.
Take Charge! helps a young person explore the types of fatigue that fit their own experience.
Physical
Fatigue in the body.
Cognitive
Fatigue affecting thinking and processing.
Sensory
Fatigue from noise, light and busy environments.
Emotional
Fatigue from managing feelings.
Social
Fatigue from social interaction and demand.
Built with young people, not just for them.
Take Charge! brings together lived experience, research evidence and clinical expertise. Young people, families and clinicians have helped shape what it says, how it works and how fatigue is represented.
Who are you?
The young-person experience stays central, with practical guidance for the adults supporting them.
I want to explore my fatigue
Learn at your own pace or go straight to My Power Bank.
StartI want to support my child
See what Take Charge! does, how to help without taking over, and how consent works.
For parents & carersI want to use it in practice
See how Take Charge! can fit before, during and between appointments.
For clinicians