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  • Detached Youth Work
    A trusted adult
    Completed
    Detached youth work aims to engage with young people ‘where they are at’, providing youth work in non-institutional settings. These settings are usually places that young people have chosen to be, such as on the street, in parks, shopping centres, fast food outlets or other community spaces. Rather than serving children in a youth club,…

    Project name:

    Detached Youth Work

    Funding:

    £110000

    Activity type:

    Mentoring, Positive things to do, Sports programmes

    Evaluation types:

    Feasibility study
    Completed
  • Spark2Life
    A trusted adult
    In progress
    Spark2Life caseworkers will provide young people with up to 12 months of trauma-informed mentoring and casework support.

    Funding:

    £3,100,000

    Activity type:

    Mentoring

    Evaluation types:

    Efficacy study
    In progress
  • UpskillU
    A trusted adult
    In progress
    EXODUS is a 12-month mentoring intervention, delivered by paid mentors from diverse cultural backgrounds, all trained in restorative practice.

    Funding:

    £2,800,000

    Activity type:

    Mentoring

    Evaluation types:

    Efficacy study, Pilot study
    In progress
  • Media Academy Cymru
    A trusted adult
    In progress
    Over five months, young people will benefit from weekly one-to-one mentoring sessions with trained youth workers.

    Funding:

    £2,000,000

    Activity type:

    Mentoring

    Evaluation types:

    Efficacy study, Pilot study
    In progress
  • St Giles
    A trusted adult
    In progress
    SOS+ works with schools, and other education providers, to identify children and young people in need of one-to-one mentoring

    Funding:

    £2,100,000

    Activity type:

    Mentoring

    Evaluation types:

    Efficacy study
    In progress
  • YES Outdoors
    Another chance - Diversion from the criminal justice system
    Completed
    The project is a nine-month adventure based mentoring programme for young people at high-risk of becoming involved in violence.

    Project name:

    YES Outdoors

    Funding:

    £742,224

    Activity type:

    Mentoring

    Evaluation types:

    Feasibility study, Pilot study
    Completed
  • Violence Reduction Network for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland
    Another chance - Diversion from the criminal justice system
    In progress
    The Reach project is a new six month intensive mentoring intervention for young people at risk of exclusion or whom have received a fixed-term exclusion.

    Project name:

    The Reach Programme

    Funding:

    £990,940

    Activity type:

    Mentoring

    Evaluation types:

    Pilot study
    In progress
  • United Borders
    Another chance - Diversion from the criminal justice system
    In progress
    United Borders deliver a two-month, trauma-informed music mentoring programme.

    Project name:

    United Borders: B.U.S programme

    Funding:

    £652,286

    Activity type:

    Arts participation, Mentoring

    Evaluation types:

    Pilot study
    In progress
  • Multi-site trial: Mentoring
    Multi-site trials
    In progress
    The YEF is funding a feasibility study of a multi-site RCT of grassroots organisations delivering mentoring.

    Project name:

    Mentoring Multi-Site Trial

    Funding:

    £561,496

    Activity type:

    Mentoring

    Evaluation types:

    Feasibility study
    In progress
  • LifeLine Community Projects
    Launch grant round
    Completed
    The project provides young people with consistent, positive role models, weekly mentoring and positive peer networks.

    Project name:

    SW!TCH Lives

    Funding:

    £397,676

    Activity type:

    Mentoring

    Evaluation types:

    Feasibility study, Pilot study
    Completed
  • London Borough of Lambeth
    Launch grant round
    Completed
    The project works with young people when they enter police custody, utilising that ‘teachable moment’ to engage them in a 12-week programme.

    Project name:

    The DIVERT Programme

    Funding:

    £778,863

    Activity type:

    Mentoring, Pre-court diversion

    Evaluation types:

    Feasibility study, Pilot study
    Completed
  • St Christopher’s Fellowship
    Launch grant round
    Completed
    The project aims to engage those with a sibling known to the youth justice system, mentoring them to identify goals and connecting them to other services following the programme.

    Project name:

    St Christopher’s Fellowship Protective Sibling Mentoring Programme

    Funding:

    £318,605

    Activity type:

    Mentoring

    Evaluation types:

    Feasibility study
    Completed