News & thoughts

This blog was written as part of Dartington’s Service Design Lab’s work leading the #iwill Fund Learning Hub. In it, Dartington reflect on what they've learnt through writing a paper on socio-economic disadvantage gap in youth social action.

St John Ambulance’s Chief Executive, Martin Houghton-Brown, has been appointed as Chair of the Centre for Youth Impact and begins his new role today (Thursday 6 June). Martin’s appointment reflects his long-term commitment and dedication to making a positive impact on the lives of young adults and children.

In June 2019 the Centre facilitated our first two ‘LabStorms’ as part of the #iwill Fund Learning Hub. In this blog, we reflect on what we learnt from facilitating a discussion that explored the role that funders in creating or supporting the structures needed to make social action a habit for life, for all young people.

Following the announcement of our England cohort in February, it is our pleasure to announce that a further 15 youth organisations from Scotland, Wales and Jersey have now signed up to pilot the YPQI.

We are pleased to announce that the first Insight Paper from the Youth Investment Fund (YIF) Learning Programme has now been published.

We are delighted to begin our work as the learning partner for the Listening Fund Scotland, which will run until March 2021.

We would like to hear about where you look for evidence of the impact of youth provision, and how you use that evidence.

We are delighted to have been selected as one of seven organisations to help The Health Foundation develop policy recommendations for action as part of the Young people’s future health inquiry.

This blog was written by The Centre’s first Chair, Thomas Lawson, who stood down last month in order to focus on his new role as CEO at Turn2Us, part of the critical fight against poverty in the UK today. In it, Tom shares his reflections on the need for a culture of practice that focuses on learning how to make continual improvements to our work.

The Centre for Youth Impact is recruiting and so we wanted to share our thoughts on why recruitment matters to us.

The Centre is delighted to announce that it will be working with Youth Access to evaluate the Make our Rights Reality (MORR) programme.

The second round of the Act for Change Fund, a funding opportunity supporting youth-led social action for change in the UK, is now open for applications.

We are thrilled to announce the fourteen youth organisations taking part in the first English cohort to pilot the Social and Emotional Learning Programme Quality Assessment, part of the Youth Programme Quality Intervention developed in the US by the Weikart Center.

The Centre is pleased to announce that it has been commissioned by the Greater London Authority (GLA) to provide evaluation support to the grantees of the Young Londoners’ Fund, as part of the Impact for Youth package of support.

The Centre for Youth Impact has received £607,000 from The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest community funder across the UK, to lead a three and a half year (April 2018 to September 2021) test and learn project for a ground-breaking quality improvement initiative.

In this blog, Sydney Church (the Centre’s Research and Learning Officer), focuses on the concept of a ‘pedagogy of discomfort’ to explore how disruptive feelings and emotions can offer valuable insight into evaluation across the youth sector.