News & thoughts

This month, Jo Hickman Dunne, Project Officer at the Centre, reflects on how we can begin to make clearer decisions about what our services should look like as we move towards the ‘new normal’.

Spoiler alert: I don’t have an answer to this question, but it’s something that’s been weighing heavy on my mind and I think should be examined within the evaluation field specifically.

As part of the legacy of the Youth Investment Fund, and particularly the importance of collaboration with practitioners through the evaluation design process, the Centre for Youth Impact is establishing a new Practitioner Panel.

Ed Anderton, our outgoing Director of Practice Development, shares some of his learning from his time with the Centre.

We are looking to appoint a part-time Communications Officer to provide the day-to-day communications and marketing function at the Centre!

Different types of organisations are enabling youth social action as part of the #iwill Fund – youth social action looks different, and has different benefits in each. This blog by Jenny North of Dartington Service Design Lab shares findings from the #iwill Fund’s recent report into the new directions for youth social action suggested by the #iwill Funded activity.

In this blog, Sarah, our Operations Manager, reflects on the Centre’s relationship with Renaisi and what their support has meant to us over the years.

Since the start of the pandemic, NYA and the Centre for Youth Impact have been gathering a range of the surveys focused on the impact of coronavirus on young people and the organisations that exist to support them.

Back in April, Ed, our Director of Practice Development, marked the launch of the first version of the youth sector data standard by referring to the old joke about asking directions and being told that “you don’t want to start from here”.

This blog was written by Adam Peel, Research and Learning Manager at the National Youth Agency.

​This blog was written by Jo Hickman Dunne, the Centre’s Research Officer.

​Bethia McNeil, CEO, reflects on the Centre’s existential crisis in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

This blog was written by Adam Peel, Research and Learning Manager at the National Youth Agency.

Over the past two years, the Centre for Youth Impact has been working with the funders and youth organisations involved in the Listening Fund, a collaborative effort to support organisations to listen and respond to young people – and make this the norm.

Over the past two years, the Centre for Youth Impact has been working with the funders and youth organisations involved in the Listening Fund, a collaborative effort to support organisations to listen and respond to young people – and make this the norm.

Over the past two years, the Centre for Youth Impact has been working with the funders and youth organisations involved in the Listening Fund, a collaborative effort to support organisations to listen and respond to young people – and make this the norm.