The YEF, BBC Children in Need and The Hunter Foundation have awarded five local authorities a share of £2.5 million to test how multi-agency partnerships can keep young people safe from violence and criminal exploitation.
The Youth Endowment Fund is partnering with the Government and Youth Futures Foundation to deliver and evaluate summer jobs programmes for up to 2,600 young people at risk of becoming involved in youth violence and crime.
The Home Office and YEF have announced they are investing £5.8 million to find out whether trauma-informed practice is effective at keeping children safe from violence.
Positive activities have the potential to reduce serious youth violence. As the YEF Toolkit explains, sports programmes have a ‘high’ average impact on youth crime and violence.
The Youth Endowment Fund’s Jon Yates, joins Dr Marcellus Baz founder of Switch Up, Coco Khan and Nish Kumar on the Pod Save the UK podcast to discuss the practical solutions to preventing knife crime. You can watch the episode below. Want to find out more about the Youth Endowment Fund’s work to prevent knife…
The Youth Endowment Fund has opened a new £10 million grant round to test the impact of sports, arts and adventure and wilderness activities on preventing violence.