Emotional Resilience for gangs from The Young Foundation on Vimeo. The Young Foundation was commissioned by Harrow Metropolitan Police to develop and pilot an emotional resilience programme targeting 14 -19 year olds who are offending or at risk of offending. Building on our successful training and delivery of the UK Resiliency Project in 24 secondary… Read more »

This podcast is a recording of the seminar “To market, to market: How community shares work”held at The Young Foundation on Friday, 17 May 2013. Simon Borkin of the Community Shares Unit introduces the concept of community shares, illustrates where the model is being used currently, and sets out how new and existing community-based enterprises… Read more »

We define community organising as “the process of supporting individuals to come together to improve their communities by putting pressure on institutions, businesses and governments to act. Community organisers work to identify local leaders, bring together local groups and develop campaigns and actions about local issues.” For the past two years, as part of our Building Local Activism… Read more »

This toolkit is designed to help community organisations use the free and low cost web tools already widely available. Between April 2011 and March 2013 The Young Foundation, as part of the Building Local Activism programme supported by the BIG Lottery Fund (BIG), worked with six small organisations or individuals that wanted to use digital… Read more »

This podcast is a recording of the seminar “Rural Social Enterprise: How Housing Associations Can Help” at The Young Foundation on 11 April, 2013. In this seminar, Paul Smith, Head of Enterprise & Intelligence, and Charlotte Weedon, Social Enterprise Development Manager of Aster Group asked if housing associations are doing all they could to support rural social enterprise, and what… Read more »

There is a growing recognition that new and innovative approaches are required to meet the social, economic and environmental difficulties we are facing. The field of social innovation is developing rapidly. Across the world, millions of people are creating new and better ways of tackling social challenges. In this report we look at social innovation… Read more »

An introduction to social investment for youth sector organisations. Download a full pdf of the publication. This briefing has been prepared as part of the Catalyst Investment Readiness Programme, offered by the Young Foundation.  Catalyst is a consortium of four organisations working with the Department for Education as the strategic partner for young people, as… Read more »

Being a young person in the UK today is tough. Unemployment, failures in the education system and high levels of young people not in education, employment or training are being compounded by cuts to youth services and funding for voluntary youth sector organisations. The youth sector plays an important role in supporting young people to develop the… Read more »

This animation is here to give voluntary youth sector organisations a clear and simple introduction to social investment.   It aims to demystify the topic, and clearly set out how people and organisations can best access and use social investment.  It introduces the viewer to the wider research and learning available on the subject from The Young Foundation and our networks…. Read more »