Multi-site trials
In progress
About the project
Mentoring matches children and young people with mentors who provide guidance and support. The YEF’s Toolkit shows that mentoring is likely to have a moderate impact on reducing violent crime. But there is little high-quality UK evidence, especially on delivery by grassroots organisations.
The YEF funding initially saw 10 small organisations that deliver mentoring recruited to take part in a feasibility study of the multi-site RCT. This will inform the roll-out of a subsequent pilot RCT evaluation involving up to 20 small organisations, delivering mentoring to approximately 1,000 children and young people over the course of a year.
The delivery partners for the multi-site trials of mentoring practice are:
- Act for Change
- Buddy Up
- Dame Kelly Holmes Trust
- Emerge (UK) Company Ltd
- Education and Skills Development Group
- Enthusiasm Trust
- Getaway Girls
- Mancroft Advice Project (MAP)
- Media Academy Cymru
- NAOS (Bristol) CIC
- Positive Youth Foundation
- Power2
- Reaching Higher
- SOFEA
- Switch Midlands CIC
- The Trust for Developing Communities (TDC)
- The Welsh Association of Youth Clubs (Youth Cymru)