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Story:AudioActive SHIFT Programme
January 28, 2026
Funded and evaluated by the Youth Endowment Fund, SHIFT is a six-month music mentoring programme supporting young people at risk of exclusion or offending. Delivered across six sites in East and West Sussex, the programme run by AudioActive pairs young people with trained music mentors – active artists and youth workers – to build trust,…
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Report:Children, Violence and Vulnerability 2025
November 24, 2025
This is YEF’s fourth annual Children, violence and vulnerability report. This year, YEF surveyed nearly 11,000 teenage children aged 13-17 in England and Wales about their experiences of violence.
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Blog:Teenage homicides in England and Wales fall to a decade low
February 5, 2026
At the Youth Endowment Fund, we’re working towards a world where all children can live a life free from violence. Every year, children across England and Wales are tragically killed in knife attacks or other forms of violence. However, last figures published from the Homicide Index suggest we’re moving rapidly in the right direction, with…
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Safe Podcast

Conversations about preventing violence amongst
children and young people.

In episode 2 of YEF’s podcast ‘Safe’ – Justin Finlayson shares how to keep young people safe in the recording studio, why drill music makes him uncomfortable and what his journey from prison officer to bus driver to charity CEO has taught him about preventing violence.

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