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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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Blog:Do sports and positive activities help to prevent 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. - Blog
Blog:What works to prevent knife crime?
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… - Blog
Blog:We know how to stop knife crime, so why don’t we do it?
Jon Yates, Executive Director at the Youth Endowment Fund, presents Radio 4's Analysis programme to investigate. - News
News:The Home Office and Youth Endowment Fund invest £7 million in Focused Deterrence
Young people who are involved in violence will be given a new choice under a US-inspired programme rolling out in five English cities. - News
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…
