At the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF), we know that to achieve our mission to prevent children getting involved in violence, we need to find out what works to improve attendance at school and reduce exclusions. That's why we're investing in programmes and secondary data analysis to find what works.
Through our Another chance – Diversion from the criminal justice system grant round, we’re investing £18m in alternatives to arrest, conviction and custody for children. We catch-up with some of the funded organisations to find out about their work and ask why they think diversion programmes are so important. YES Outdoors “The young people we…
On May 14, we closed the applications for our grant round, Another chance: diversion from the criminal justice system. We set out to fund between 10 and 20 projects from a pot of up to £20 million, because we want to find out how alternatives to arrest, conviction and custody can prevent children and young…
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…
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…
Guest blog by Julia Mannes and Rachel Lily, Dartington Service Design Lab This year, youth services have faced new challenges in engaging young people, particularly young people at risk of becoming involved in violence. As the Learning Partner for the Youth Endowment Fund’s special COVID-19 Grant round, we’ve had the opportunity to understand more about how organisations – ranging from grassroots charities to Britain’s…
Paul Twocock, Director of Change, Youth Endowment Fund Yesterday, we launched our strategy. As Jon’s already said, we can’t achieve our ambitions alone. To put our plan into action, we need your help. We know that over the next decade, there are a lot of areas we need to cover. Now we need to decide…
Today we have announced the recipients of our COVID-19 grant round. 130 organisations from across England and Wales have been offered funding totalling £6.5m. The funding will support the delivery of new programmes and activities to help children and young people at-risk of being drawn into violent crime and tackle any problems that emerge during…
