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Last week, we launched the YEF Toolkit – an accessible, online tool that provides free-to-use summaries of the best available research on what works to prevent children becoming involved in violence. We’ve developed the Toolkit to help police forces, local authorities, youth charities, school leaders and others use evidence when making decisions about how best…

Launched today, the YEF Toolkit is one way we’ll make sure that the best available research on preventing violence is translated into change.   

When we were developing our plans, it became clear that a lot of violent crime happens in very specific local areas. So, to make a difference, we committed to place-based funding, including our Neighbourhood Fund.

Many organisations supporting young people will have had to adapt their work in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Be it, delivering completely new services to meet the emerging needs of young people and their communities, or changing the way they deliver their services to comply with social distancing requirements. It was this strength – flexibility…

Paul Twocock, Director of Change, Youth Endowment Fund Back in October, we launched the Youth Endowment Fund’s (YEF) strategy. It’s an ambitious, long-term plan to find out what really helps prevent children becoming involved in violence and will make their lives safer. To put the strategy into action, we knew we had to make some choices…

Andrea Ramsay, Director of Operations, Youth Endowment Fund Before the COVID-19 crisis took hold, and just seven weeks after we launched, the Youth Endowment Fund opened our first grant round. We made sure we were as open as possible – any type of organisation, across England and Wales, could apply to fund any kind of…

This week we’re delighted to welcome Naomi Hulston, Chief Operating Officer at Catch22, to the Youth Endowment Fund’s governing Committee. As a member of our Committee, she joins a passionate and experienced team responsible for shaping how our ten-year, £200m endowment from the Home Office is spent.  We catch up with her to find out…