News & thoughts

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.

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.

At their Annual Gathering in September, The Centre for Youth Impact hosted a workshop on “Equality and Equity in Evaluation: Applying an Identity Lens”. During a morning and afternoon session, we listened to writer, cultural producer and an award-winning arts educator, Farzana Khan; researcher Julie Temperley; and educational researcher and consultant Nusrat Faizullah discuss and explore their perspectives on the topic.

We are delighted to be working in a consortium led by NPC, and including the What Works Centre for Wellbeing, Brunel University London, and Bryson Purdon Social Research, to undertake the evaluation and learning role for the Building Connections Fund.

In order to support its commitment to creating a quality youth service for all young people, the Labour Party have conducted a consultation to gain insights from organisations and people working in the youth sector.