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At the Gathering 2018 Rashid Iqbal, CEO of The Winch, spoke as part of a panel titled 'Reframing power, impact and change: the role of quality, voice and collective action'.

This blog was written by Ann Griffiths (Senior Policy Manager, Children & Young People at the Money Advice Service) as part of Talk Money Week - an annual celebration of the work thousands of organisations are doing to improve money management across the UK, and aims to get more people talking about money.

We are really pleased to announce that our new Head of Networks and Practice Development, Steve Hillman, joined us last week.

As part of its work to take forward the legacy of Project Oracle, the Centre is beginning new work with Local Cultural Education Partnerships (LCEPs) in the North West.

In May this year, the Centre began working with the Local Government Association to update the Catalyst Framework of Outcomes for Young People (originally published in 2012) in line with LGA’s Bright Futures: Our Vision for Youth Services.

At the Gathering 2018 Aston Wood, Youth Development Manager at St Mary’s, responded to Polly Neate’s opening keynote address. This blog captures some of Aston’s response.

The Centre for Youth Impact recently hosted its fourth annual Gathering, and a clear theme that resonated throughout the conference was the need to invest in and improve longitudinal research in the youth sector.

This blog was written by Polly Neate, CEO at Shelter. Polly delivered the opening keynote address at the Gathering 2018, which explored the role of power, impact and change in the UK youth sector.

In this blog, Bethia McNeil, CEO at the Centre for Youth Impact, shares her reflections on our annual conference. This year's conference explored the relationship between impact, power and change.

This blog was written by Mariyam Farooq, Senior Advisor – Programme, Impact and Evaluation at Black Thrive. Mariyam was part of a panel at the Gathering 2018 titled 'Reframing power, impact and change: the role of quality, voice and collective action' and this blog provides a shortened version of her contribution.

This blog was written by Mary McKaskill, Practice Development Lead at the Centre for Youth Impact. She shares her reflections for the International Transformative Youth Work Conference held at Plymouth Marjon University 4-6th Septmber 2018.

We are delighted to be working with Renaisi to act as learning partner for the Act for Change Fund.

We are excited to be working on the pilot of the Enterprise Development Programme led by Access - The Foundation for Social Investment.

The Centre for Youth Impact has received over £607,000 of National Lottery funding through the Big Lottery Fund to lead a three and a half year (Apr 2018- Sep 2021) test and learn project for a ground-breaking quality improvement initiative.

The place of power in evaluation is an interesting question to ponder: it is somehow everywhere and yet simultaneously nowhere. Power relations could arguably be the single biggest influence on how an evaluation is designed, undertaken and experienced: power often decides the questions that an evaluation is seeking to answer, and how it goes about answering them.

The Centre for Youth Impact has been commissioned by the Local Government Association to develop an outcomes framework that supports stakeholders across the informal and non-formal youth sector to agree common goals for their work, collaborate more closely, and improve commissioning through a better understanding of quality and impact in youth work and provision for young people.