#iWill Fund Learning Hub: Systems
This work aims to develop our understanding of barriers and enablers in building and strengthening sustained youth social action. It supports the identification of emerging practice and the testing of potential new solutions as well as helping guide investment decisions.
Systems Mapping and Funder Collaborations
Co-production workshops, supported by research briefings, aimed to build the understanding of barriers to, and opportunities for, embedding and sustaining youth social action in three priority themes: education, place, and the relationship between youth social action and ‘all ages’ social action. The workshops ran from September 2018 - March 2019, and were attended by Match Funders, invited grantees, and other invited stakeholders.
Alongside this, a series of ‘LabStorms’ were offered to Match Funders to enable a collaborative approach toward identifying common challenges, and to find and share actionable responses to them. The #iwill LabStorms ran between April 2019 – January 2022.
LabStorms: A ‘How-to Guide’
This 'how-to' guide is for funders and providers of youth social action, to support them in their organisational and peer to peer learning as they enable, fund, and increase high-quality youth social action opportunities for young people.
The guide provides inspiration and advice in how to convene and facilitate LabStorms as a powerful and shared legacy of the #iwill Fund Learning Hub. Funders may wish to create these collaborative learning spaces for themselves, as a community of practice, or facilitate shared spaces for peer-to-peer learning for the organisations they fund and support to deliver youth social action opportunities.
Report on the seventh #iwill Fund Learning Hub Labstorm
This is the seventh and final LabStorm for the #iwill Fund Learning Hub, which took place on 17 January 2022, which featured as its subject how the group of match funders would like to be able to learn in the future.
Report on the sixth #iwill Fund Learning Hub LabStorm
This is a write-up of the recent LabStorm on ‘youth voice’, which the College hosted. It shared conversations on definition and impact of ‘youth voice’, its relationship with youth social action, and how it interacts with existing power structures.
Exploring Integration of Youth Social Action and ‘All-Ages’ Social Action
Report on the fourth and fifth #iwill Fund Learning Hub Labstorms
This is the report from two Labstorms that focused on a discussion around funding campaigning as part of youth social action.
Report on the third #iwill Fund Learning Hub Labstorms
LabStorms were adopted, within the #iwill Fund Learning Hub, to foster ongoing, deeper collaboration between Match Funders, with the aim of enabling a system of effective youth social action funding to be continued beyond 2023.
This report draws out the key themes from the third round of LabStorms for the #iwill Fund Learning Hub, which took place online on 28 October 2020 and involved a smaller group of Match Funders.
Second #iwill Fund Learning Hub LabStorms
This report was produced by the College to provide insight into the second round of ‘LabStorms’ held as part of the Learning Hub in February 2020. LabStorms are collaborative problem-solving exercises that enable #iwill Fund Match Funders to identify and address potentially common problems. The second round of LabStorms involved a discussion on youth voice and a discussion on the concept of place in youth social action.
Report on the first #iwill Fund Learning Hub LabStorms
This report was produced by the College to provide insight into the first round of ‘LabStorms’ held as part of the Learning Hub in June 2019. LabStorms are collaborative problem-solving exercises that enable #iwill Fund Match Funders to identify and address potentially common problems. The report explores key learning generated from the discussions and some potential opportunities for funders moving forwards.