About Tapped

Created by young people. Built to prevent harm.

Tapped is a powerful short film exploring the realities of illegal money lending and its impact on individuals, families, and communities.

Developed in partnership with the Scottish Illegal Money Lending Unit, Kingdom Community Bank, Fife Voluntary Action, YouthLink Scotland, and Fife Council, the film and education pack were created by young people for use in schools, youth groups, and community settings.

The project provided young people with creative mentorship from Youth Space Fife alongside professional filmmakers David Izatt and Adam Stanley, supporting them to develop their filmmaking, storytelling, and production skills while ensuring the content is authentic and youth-led.

The accompanying Tapped education pack (below) provides accessible, youth-informed resources to raise awareness, build understanding, and support prevention.

Other Videos

Tapped: Behind the Scenes

Tapped: Behind the Scenes follows the journey of the young people involved in bringing the project to life, from early ideas and storytelling through to filming, production, and the creation of the final education resource.

Working collaboratively with creative practitioners, participants developed the film and toolkit to ensure the content is authentic, relevant, and capable of sparking meaningful conversations in schools, youth groups, and community settings.

This film captures the process, voices, and experiences behind Tapped, highlighting the power of youth-led storytelling to inform, educate, and prevent harm.

Tapped: Unboxing the Toolkit

Tapped: Unboxing the Toolkit is a practitioner-focused guide to the educational resource. It supports teachers, youth workers, and community practitioners to confidently deliver sessions using the toolkit.

Using a step-by-step “unboxing” approach, this film introduces the key components of the resource, how it can be used in practice, and how it helps create safe, informed discussions in schools, youth groups, and community settings.harm.

Educational Toolkit

An educational toolkit accompanies the film, co-created by young people in partnership with specialist contributors from the Scottish Illegal Money Lending Unit, Kingdom Community Bank and Youth link Scotland.

It allows the film’s storyline and characters to be explored as themes and issues that encourages participants to consider the risks, harms and alternatives in a safe and supported way. This co-design approach ensured that the content is both authentic and professionally informed, enabling young people’s voices to shape messaging that will resonate with their peers.

The toolkit includes workshop plans, discussion guides, and digital assets which will be hosted on Youth link Scotland’s national platform, alongside resources on other topics.

The toolkit is available in two versions: a single-page format or double-page spread. Both versions can be downloaded as PDFs by clicking the buttons below.