We’re here to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence.
We’re here to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence.
We do this by finding out what works and building a movement to put this knowledge into practice.
FIND OUT WHAT WORKS
Youth Endowment Fund Toolkit
We’ve developed the YEF Toolkit as a free online resource to help you put evidence of what works to prevent serious violence into action.
Find out what works for your area of work, and how we can collaboratively help make a positive change to the lives of young people at risk of violence.
Sectors
To help us make the biggest difference over the ten years of our endowment, we’ve selected seven sectors where we’ll use evidence to identify what works and what needs to change, so that children are better supported and violence reduces.
For each sector we’ll produce practice and systems guidance, alongside online and in-person events to join.
Education
Youth Justice
Children’s Services
Policing
Health
Youth
Neighbourhoods
Our latest research reports
Find out what works through evaluation and guidance reports
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Research
Report:Effect Size Database
This report summarises the YEF’s Effect Size Database (ESDB), a free repository that reports effect sizes (ES) associated with each study included in the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) Evidence and Gap map (EGM). It enables users to determine the direction and magnitude of impact reported in a particular study for a specific outcome, intervention, population… -
Report
Report:Education guidance
Our Education, Children and Violence guidance provides school, college and alternative provision (AP) leaders across England and Wales with fiveevidence-based recommendations on how to help prevent children’s involvement in violence. Recommendations The recommendations in this report provide guidance on the ‘best bets’ from the underpinning evidence. School, college and AP leaders’ professional judgement on how…Education -
Race Equity Progress
Report:Race Equity Progress Report 2023
In October 2022, we published our race equity goals and objectives. These provide us with clear and actionable targets to work towards and mean that we can be held accountable for our actions, internally and externally. Our Race Equity Progress Report outlines our advancement towards these published goals over the past year. It describes what…
Funded projects
We fund work in England and Wales that aims to prevent children and young people from becoming involved in violence – especially those aged between 10 and 14-years old.
Every programme and activity we fund, we’ll evaluate. We do this because we want to learn what works, for whom and why.
Funding good work
We fund work in England and Wales that aims to prevent children and young people from becoming involved in violence.
Finding what works
We evaluate every programme and activity that we fund. Our aim is to find out what works, for whom and why.
Working for change
To make a lasting difference we’ll build a movement of people and organisations passionate about making sure that young people get the very best support possible.
Youth Advisory Board
We’re giving young people a stake in our decision making and a voice on the issues that matter to them.
We can only achieve by putting young people at the heart of our work. That’s why we’ve set-up a Youth Advisory Board.
Latest from YEF
What’s new at YEF
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News
News:YEF partners with the Centre for Justice Innovation
YEF partners with the Centre for Justice Innovation The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) is delighted to announce the appointment of the Centre for Justice Innovation as its Youth Justice Partner following a competitive tender. The YEF’s mission is to prevent children and young people from becoming involved in violence. It does this by finding out… -
News
News:The Role of Youth Leadership: Insights from the Youth Advisory Board
The Youth Endowment Fund’s Youth Advisory Board (YAB) recently held a productive roundtable session discussing the role of youth leadership in three key areas: Governance and Decision-Making Two young speakers, one from YAB and one external, kicked off the discussion on governance and decision-making. They highlighted the importance of valuing young people’s time through proper… -
Research
Report:Effect Size Database
This report summarises the YEF’s Effect Size Database (ESDB), a free repository that reports effect sizes (ES) associated with each study included in the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) Evidence and Gap map (EGM). It enables users to determine the direction and magnitude of impact reported in a particular study for a specific outcome, intervention, population…
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- New Toolkit strands (School-based education programmes, Functional Family Therapy, Arts participation)
- Diversion guidance report
- New funding rounds
- New research: one of the largest studies of children’s experiences of violence.