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Rugby League’s top teams will be casting aside long-standing rivalries to launch a new joint initiative to reduce youth crime and violence. The Rugby Football League (RFL) has been awarded £660,000 from the Youth Endowment Fund to launch and evaluate Inspiring Futures. This programme will help to prevent young people from getting caught up in…

The Youth Endowment Fund has appointed Jon Yates as its first Executive Director. He will take up the post in November working alongside the Chair Sir Kevan Collins, as the independent fund works to put prevention at the heart of tackling youth crime. Jon Yates has two decades of experience in the youth and community…

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The Youth Endowment Fund is pleased to announce our first round of grantees. We've committed £16.2m over the next two years to fund and evaluate 22 projects reaching over 30,000 children across England and Wales.

Announcing our first grantees and programmes

Sir Kevan Collins has been appointed chair of the Youth Endowment Fund - the independent body set up by the Home Office to fund and learn from early interventions that keep young people away from crime and violence.

The Youth Endowment Fund has joined the Government's What Works Network, as an affiliate member. It joins the Early Intervention Foundation, the lead What Works Centre responsible for early intervention to improve outcomes for children, and the Education Endowment Foundation, set up by Impetus and the Sutton Trust which seeks to improve educational attainment.