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
- Report
Report:Scoping a programme of work for Youth Endowment Fund on nutrition
Background This report was written for the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) by the Ending Youth Violence Lab (the Lab) in April-June 2025. In it the Lab provide advice on how, in their view, YEF should approach establishing and evaluating a nutrition programme designed to support young people at risk of getting caught up in violence.… - Research
Report:Access to Mental Health Support
About the Report This report examines how children and young people involved in, or at risk of, serious youth violence in England and Wales access mental health support — and how that access can be improved. It draws on five strands of research: literature reviews, data analysis, service mapping, and over 100 in-depth interviews with…Health - Report
Report:Evidence Review on Poverty and Youth Crime and Violence
Understanding the relationship between poverty and crime and violence The link between poverty and children’s involvement in crime and violence is well established. But the details of this relationship are complex and not fully understood. To explore these complexities, the Youth Endowment Fund commissioned a systematic review by the Jill Dando Institute Research Laboratory at…
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
- Blog
Blog:Restorative Justice is Punching Higher
Marking Restorative Justice Week, we’re taking a closer look at how restorative justice is increasingly shaping discussions around violence, accountability and rehabilitation — and why the evidence behind it is becoming harder to ignore. It also feels especially timely that one of the most compelling stories about restorative justice has made its way onto a West End stage this autumn. Putting restorative… - Blog
Blog:Inside the Neighbourhood Fund: Empowering communities to support young people at risk of violence
The Neighbourhood Fund puts local communities at the centre of preventing youth violence. Instead of designing solutions from afar, the fund supports people who know their neighbourhood best, residents, local organisations, and young people themselves, to decide: To do this, the Fund invests in five neighbourhoods that have experienced some of the highest and most… - News
News:Nine local authorities join new programme to strengthen multi-agency violence prevention
Nine local authorities have begun a year-long programme to strengthen multi-agency partnerships and develop evidence-informed strategies to prevent children’s involvement in violence. The areas – Bristol, Derbyshire, Flintshire, Hertfordshire, Knowsley, Mansfield, Sefton, South Gloucestershire and Stockton successfully applied to take part in the Youth Endowment Fund’s (YEF) new Area Leaders Programme. The Area Leaders Programme…
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