Tag: Youth Endowment Fund

The Youth Endowment Fund opens new £10 million grant round for positive activities

Stuart Mitchell

On 5th April 2023, the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) has opened a new £10 million grant round. Focused on the theme of ‘positive activities’, the round will test the impact of sports, arts and adventure and wilderness activities on preventing violence. The YEF’s mission is to find what works to prevent children becoming involved in violence and build a movement to put this knowledge into practice. Through its new grant round, the charity will fund projects which use positive activities as a means to protect children from violence and as…

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Youth Endowment Fund, #iwill Fund and Co-op come together to launch the Peer Action Collective (PAC): giving 10–25-year-olds a voice and the chance to make their communities safer, fairer places

Stuart Mitchell

October saw the launch of a £5.2 million ground-breaking new youth-led network called the Peer Action Collective (PAC). The project will reach nearly 6,500 young people (aged from 10-25) who will take part in action to end violence in their communities. That might involve designing and carrying out research as a peer researcher, leading campaigns in their communities as a changemaker, or sharing their views on violence, so that they’re shaping the solutions they want to see in their communities. The youth-led programme is funded by the Youth Endowment Fund,…

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Applications Open for Resilience and Recovery Loan Fund

Stuart Mitchell

The Youth Endowment Fund has announced that it will commit up to £6.5m in new grants to find the best ways to reach “increasingly invisible” vulnerable young people during the current COVID-19 restrictions. With access to schools restricted and the provision of youth services severely reduced, young people at risk of youth violence have become increasingly ‘invisible’. At the same time, they have lost much of the help and guidance they rely on. The Youth Endowment Fund was set up to find the best ways to protect young people from…

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