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The Young Academy Investment Fund Impact Report 2021

Publication 20 April 2022

This report assesses the impact of The Young Academy Investment Fund.

Report finds social enterprises funded by The Young Academy benefit 1.8m learners

News 20 April 2022

Social investment fund, set up by The Young Foundation, UBS and the Cabinet Office to tackle disadvantage in education, shares learnings from eight years of flexible and patient finance.

Helping community businesses be more resilient – Lessons learnt from the Trade Up programme

Repository entry 1 April 2022

One of Power to Change’s three strategic priorities for 2021-2025 is ‘more resilient community businesses’. This paper explores whether the Trade Up programme – designed to support the growth of community businesses and being delivered between May 2017 to March 2022 – made community businesses more resilient. Findings show that while diff…

How can funders support established community businesses? Lessons learnt from the Community Business Fund programme

Repository entry 1 April 2022

Power to Change funded the Community Business Fund (CBF) programme between 2016 and 2021 to support existing community businesses to progress towards greater self-sufficiency by increasing their trading income, securing an asset and / or significantly reducing revenue costs. This short evaluation report outlines the impact that the programme ha…

Research digest: ‘Lessons in navigation’

Blog 29 March 2022

Nearly a quarter of a century after Google introduced the world to the joys of online searching (and the dangers of the filter bubble), user experience is all – and as we add ever more material to the Institute for

Beyond the ‘foggy and uncertain’: supporting young people’s futures

Publication 28 March 2022

A new report shares insight into the concerns and priorities of young people around England, and outlines their vision for a better future.

Young people propose solutions to youth mental health crisis

News 28 March 2022

New research – led by 16- to 20-year-olds and conducted with 10- to 21-year-olds in England – shares a youth vision for a healthier, happier post-Covid future.  

‘Putting young people in the driving seat of research can steer better youth support’

Blog 28 March 2022

Helen Goulden shares a new report, and celebrates greater participation of young people in the research sector.

Sharon Long, Director at Partnership for Young London

Closing keynote
Day 2, 24 March, 3.30pm

Mariana Meshi, Different & Equal

Conference stream: Youth
Day 1, 23 March, 1.15

Dr Silvie Bovarnick, Safer Young Lives Research Centre

Conference stream: Youth
Day 1, 23 March, 1.15

‘Greater diversity among councillors matters. Here’s why.’

Blog 22 March 2022

Victoria Boelman asks what we can all do to increase the diversity of people putting themselves forward for local elections.