Enterprise in The Youth Sector - Getting Comfortable with Commercialisation
9 December 2021
The Centre's Jo Hickman-Dunne delves into the latest emerging trends from our research into enterprise activity within the youth sector, as part of the Enterprise Development Programme.
This month's blog takes a look at practitioners' views and responses gathered during November, exploring key themes around climate change and social action.
Leading youth charities to unite to ensure more practitioners support young people to thrive
17 November 2021
In Spring 2022, two leading youth charities - the Centre for Youth Impact and YMCA George Williams College – intend to unite to improve the quality of support and opportunities for young people in the UK.
The Centre for Youth Impact is the learning partner for the Act for Change Fund which supports youth-led social change. This is the first of a series of Week Notes, written by the Centre's Mary McKaskill about the learning and insight coming out of the Act for Change Fund Learning Project.
YPQI Pilot next steps - how can we achieve quality at scale?
11 November 2021
Organisational Learning Lead Catherine Mitchell discusses key lessons and next steps for the YPQI pilot, as the project transitions from pilot to long-term offer for participants.
Inspired by The Centre for Education and Youth's recent evaluation of The Brighton Streets Project, Dr Tania de St Croix takes a look at the role youth-centred evaluation can play in demonstrating the impact of detached youth work and help shed light on the 'everyday and remarkable'.
Piloting partnerships to hear practitioners perspectives: Five lessons learnt
7 October 2021
In this blog co-authored with UK Youth, we reflect on the successes and learning that arose from the pilot project and what's next for #JustOneQuestion.
Thoughts and reflections from the Impact Accelerator
9 September 2021
In this latest blog, the Centre's Catherine Mitchell shares final thoughts and reflections on the Impact Accelerator as we wrap up our work with the third and final cohort.
This month, in a guest blog from across the pond, DrCharles Smith from our long-time partners QTurn reflects on the ways compassion can be integrated into evaluation, and what this means for both practitioners and evaluators.