News & thoughts

In 2015, the National Lottery Heritage Fund recognised that young people were underrepresented as audiences, participants and volunteers in the heritage sector.

At the Centre, we are regularly asked what the youth sector is thinking and ‘doing’ about evaluation.

Ed Anderton, our Director of Practice Development delves into our refreshed Theory of Change and how we arrived there.

The Practice Development Day is a full-day intensive induction to the Centre’s approach to evaluating youth work and provision for young people.

This blog is written by Josef Fischer, Data Manager at the Centre. His blog considers why a new research methodology, 'QuIP', may be useful in impact measurement and evaluation by outlining some of the method's key distinguishing features and why it may be well-suited in the youth sector.

The Centre for Youth Impact is committed to working collaboratively to progress thinking and practice in impact measurement and quality improvement in youth work and provision for young people.

We are really pleased to share our working paper on the role of youth provision in supporting young people to build assets for a healthy life.

In the summer of 2018, the Local Government Association commissioned the Centre for Youth Impact to produce an outcomes framework.

If you could ask your colleagues across the youth sector any question, what would it be? In December we will be launching ‘Asking good questions: the survey’, a new monthly survey by and for organisations working with young people.

This blog is written by Mary McKaskill, Practice Development Manager, and Bethia McNeil, CEO, as a follow up to their recent blog on ‘the impact lexicon’.

The Enterprise Development Programme is a five year programme, funded by Access – The Foundation for Social Investment and managed by a coalition of partners.

Ed Anderton, our Director of Practice Development, shares some initial reflections on our inaugural ‘Practice Development Day’ at The Gathering, and our next steps in supporting the youth sector in the UK to learn, evaluate and improve.

The Centre for Youth Impact is committed to working collaboratively to progress thinking and practice in impact measurement in youth work and provision for young people.

With support from City Bridge Trust, the Centre will spend two years working with two groups of ten organisations in London that work with young people through a relational approach.

This blog is written by Bethia McNeil, our Chief Executive. In it, Bethia explores what the five year anniversary means to her in terms of the shifting the nature of enquiry, practice development, and debate within the sector. She also sets out the key questions we will be asking at our conference in November.

This blog is co-authored by Bethia McNeil, our Chief Executive, and Mary McKaskill, our Practice Development Manager. In it, they explore terminology used across the charity sector lexicon and share some reflections on the Centre’s approach to ‘impact terminology​.