Funding opportunities

This call for proposals is for evaluators who have identified a intervention aimed at preventing children from becoming involved in crime and violence and is ready for a rigorous evaluation.

This open call invites evaluators to propose the design and delivery of a multi-site trial for an intervention aimed at preventing children from becoming involved in crime and violence or supporting those already in the youth justice system.

Our  targeted projects funding is for programmes that don’t fit into our themed rounds or place-based funding, but are widely used or promising with the potential to scale.

This is an ongoing call for proposals from delivery organisations working to prevent children from becoming involved in violence.

Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Prevention Programme Finding out what works to prevent violence against young women and girls (VAWG) is a key part of delivering on YEF’s mission to prevent children and young people becoming involved in violence. It is also central to the cross-government strategy “Freedom from Violence and Abuse” that was published in December…

This funding round forms part of a wider YEF programme of funding, evaluation and research over the next three years on what works to prevent and respond to VAWG. 

We're looking for proposals for projects that use secondary data analysis to answer key questions about violence prevention policy and practice.

Summary YEF is seeking to appoint a delivery partner for a new Restorative Justice (RJ) fund. The delivery partner will develop a model of direct RJ, support the recruitment of Youth Justice Service (YJS) teams already delivering RJ, coordinate the delivery of this model amongst these YJSs, and work with an independent evaluator to ensure a robust evaluation…

This grant round focuses on psychological therapies delivered to children who are at risk of becoming involved in crime and violence or those already involved in the youth justice system.

We are specifically looking to fund programmes that are well-established and ready for an efficacy evaluation.

We’re looking to learn more about the impact of the arts, sports and wilderness and adventure activities on reducing violent offending behaviours for children and young people who have been - or are at high-risk of being - affected by violence, offending and/or exploitation.

In the second grant round of our Agency Collaboration Fund, the theme will be family support. We plan to fund and evaluate multi-agency support projects for children at risk of extra-familial harm.

Emergency grants for groups working with children and young people from Black, Asian and other minority backgrounds.

We’re looking to appoint Deliver Partners to be responsible for all programme delivery on a regional level.

We’re looking to fund and evaluate projects where trusted adult relationships - outside of the family environment - is a defining or core feature of their work to improve outcomes for children and young people who have been or are at high-risk of being affected by violence, offending and/or exploitation.

In September 2022, we're looking for applications for projects using trauma-informed practice approaches.

We've come together with the Education Endowment Foundation to jointly fund a grant round to find out how whole-school policies and approaches can improve attendance and reduce exclusions.

We’ve come together with the Education Endowment Foundation to jointly fund a grant round to build evidence of what works to improve attendance and reduce exclusions.

In the first grant round of our Agency Collaboration Fund we’re investing in a multi-agency approach which research has shown to be particularly effective at reducing violent crime: focused deterrence.

Our September 2021 themed grant round, in partnership with Comic Relief.

We know that sometimes, children need another chance: alternatives to arrest, conviction and custody. Diversion programmes help them do that.

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We launched our COVID-19 grant round in response to the pandemic. We had two aims. Firstly, to provide targeted support to young people at-risk of being drawn into violent crime. Secondly, to learn fast about the best ways to reach vulnerable young people during a period of social distancing.

We launched our first grant round in May 2019, awarding a total of £18.1m to 24 projects, working with 36,000 children across England and Wales.

Through our Agency Collaboration Fund we want to find out how agencies can better share data, power and information to prevent children from becoming involved in violence.

Following the Launch grant round, we awarded 45 organisations capacity building grants, totalling £2m. Each received support from one of our learning partners to improve how they demonstrate and articulate their impact.

We know that trusted adult relationships play an important role in detached and outreach youth work. And we know that detached and outreach youth work are commonly used practices within the youth work sector.

Rhagymadrodd Trwy ein cylch grant Oedolyn dibynadwy  rydym eisiau dysgu sut mae helpu i adeiladu perthnasoedd oedolion dibynadwy, y tu allan i amgylchedd y teulu, yn gallu arwain at ganlyniadau gwell i blant a phobl ifanc sydd wedi bod neu sydd mewn perygl uchel o gael eu heffeithio gan drais, troseddu a/neu gamfanteisio (sy’n cael…

Ydych chi’n darparu prosiect neu raglen sy’n defnyddio model ‘torri ar draws trais’ i gynorthwyo plant a phobl ifanc sy’n cael eu heffeithio gan drais? Trwy ein cylch ymchwil ar thema, Oedolyn dibynadwy, rydym am ddysgu sut mae helpu i adeiladu perthnasoedd ymddiriedol yn gallu arwain at wella canlyniadau i blant a phobl ifanc sydd…

The Neighbourhood Fund will test different models and approaches to community engagement to better understand how, where and why it can keep children safe from involvement in violence.

This funding round forms part of a wider YEF programme of funding, evaluation and research over the next three years on what works to prevent and respond to VAWG.