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Find out more about the latest news and developments relating to the Youth Endowment Fund and our work.
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News:Youth Endowment Fund wins ‘Children & Youth Board of the Year’
The YEF won the 'Children & Youth Board of the Year' award at the inaugural The Board Awards. - News
News:The Youth Endowment Fund opens new £10 million grant round for positive activities
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. - News
News:New research shows how to counter violence against women and girls
New research shows that simple education programmes aimed at teenage boys can cut sexual violence by as much as 17%. - Blog
Blog:Tackling anti-social behaviour
What works to prevent anti-social behaviour? The Anti-Social Behaviour Action Plan was published this week. It sets out the Government’s approach to stamping out anti-social behaviour across England and Wales. BBC Radio 4 – Today programme In response, Jon Yates – Executive Director of the Youth Endowment Fund – spoke to the Today programme to… - News
News:Youth Endowment Fund commits £10 million to Black, Asian and other minority-led community groups
The Youth Endowment Fund has announced it’s partnered with The Phoenix Way. - News
News:Keith Fraser and Steve Walker join the YEF’s governing Committee
Keith Fraser and Steve Walker, two of the UK’s leading practitioners on youth justice and children’s services, have joined the governing Committee of the YEF. - News
News:Youth Endowment Fund, Co-op, #iwill Fund invest a further £7.5 million into the Peer Action Collective (PAC): giving 10–25-year-olds a voice and the chance to make their communities safer, fairer places
The new £7.5 million investment from Youth Endowment Fund, Co-op and the #iwill Fund will see PAC deliver youth-led research and social action projects for a further five years. - News
News:The Youth Endowment Fund opens multi-million-pound funding round to find what works to protect children from harm outside the home
The Youth Endowment Fund opens multi-million-pound funding round to find what works to protect children from harm outside the home Today [7th March 2023], the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) has opened a new multi-million pound joint funding round. The money will help local authorities to learn the best ways to keep children safe from violence… - Blog
Blog:Why I’m working with the Youth Endowment Fund to give children another chance
By Dame Rachel de Souza, Children’s Commissioner for England Over the past year, 39% of teenage children in England and Wales have either been either a victim of or witness to violence. These experiences have significant and widespread consequences – 1 in 7 teenagers said they’d missed school because they’re scared of violence. The same… - Blog
Blog:Investing to learn: a year in YEF’s evaluation team
The work we do at the Youth Endowment Fund on evaluation and research is central to achieving our mission – to keep children and young people from becoming involved in violence. It’s true that we’re funder; since 2019, we’ve committed a huge amount of money – £56 million – to some incredible grantees. The approaches… - News
News:New research finds that schools delivering specialist Relationship and Sex Education lessons can significantly reduce violence in partner relationships
New research finds that schools delivering specialist Relationship and Sex Education lessons can significantly reduce violence in partner relationships Violence in teenage relationships is a significant problem. Previous research has shown that 1 in 7 teenage children watched sexual violence being committed online last year and that 1 in 12 teenage girls were victims of… - News
News:Young researchers come together in Liverpool to learn how to make change and end violence
Through the Peer Action Collective (PAC), young people met in Liverpool to share research and learn how to make change in their communities.
