Youth Futures Foundation

Following the recent ambitious goal to “eradicate inactivity and unemployment for our young people” announced by the Prime Minister, today’s Autumn Budget contained some welcome positive intent to address the challenge. 📑 Our CEO, Barry Fletcher, responds to the announcements made in today's Autumn Budget. "We welcome the specific reference to the Youth Guarantee which partially adopts the Young Persons Guarantee called for by Youth Futures and fellow co-chairs of the Youth Employment Group. "We look forward to the upcoming publication of the Get Britain Working White Paper, and the further details of the Youth Guarantee ‘trailblazers’ outlined today." Read more ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eaV3PkuN

We're #hiring a new Senior Grants Officer to lead on the delivery of key funding relationships and portfolios, making recommendations on complex and strategically important requests for funding, and building effective relationships with our grant holders.   📅 Full-time ⏰ Closing date - 6 November 2024 📍Hybrid - London, Leeds or Birmingham    Apply now or share with your network!👉https://lnkd.in/eKa9eqHR

October is Black History Month in the UK. This year's theme is Reclaiming Narratives. It’s about recognising and showcasing the complex realities of Black history, culture, and stories and shining a light on untold success stories. As we approach the end of October and Black History Month winds down, we’re building up to a key milestone in our three-year partnership with Business in the Community with a Seeing is Believing visit to the Young Brent Foundation next week. We hope that by taking business leaders into this community setting, to meet the young people, we can help draw out the complexities of their experiences, and shift employers’ perceptions by drawing attention to the disproportionate barriers that Black young people face in their journeys to employment. Read more here ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/e4CMfP5X

Applications have opened for the paid Youth Voice Ambassador position for the Future Voices Group! Do you know a young person who has faced challenges when trying to get or keep a job? Do they want to use their experience to... 📢 Champion youth voice in Parliament and in the media? 📔 Work on exciting creative projects to articulate the stories of marginalised young people? 🗣️ Represent Youth Futures Foundation at important events with some of the country’s key decision-makers? For full details about the role, read the Recruitment Pack ➡ https://lnkd.in/euXAuGB2 Apply here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ehNjxXHS ⏰ The deadline to apply is 17 November 2024. 

We are excited to announce a new call for proposals for practice guidance for youth participation in evaluation! We are seeking a research partner to conduct qualitative research and produce evidence informed practice guidance for high quality evaluations. The research partner will have expertise in: ➡️Evaluation methods ➡️Youth participatory approaches ➡️Conducting focus groups ➡️Developing practice guidance ⏰The deadline to submit a proposal is Friday 22 November. For more information on how to submit 👉https://lnkd.in/ezxDpecM

📣 I’m delighted to be working with Youth Futures Foundation – the national What Works Centre for youth employment – as Chair of its Mental Health Advisory Group. Together with brilliant colleagues who bring wide-ranging expertise and perspectives, I look forward to helping to guide Youth Futures’ vital new research to better understand why so many young people are affected. I hope the research findings will support policymakers to implement the most impactful change and move the dial for the next generation. tinyurl.com/5n8dmbaf

Youth unemployment can be both a cause and a consequence of poor mental health 🧠 🔍 Youth Futures Foundation is undertaking groundbreaking new research on the factors driving the increase in mental health conditions among 14 to 24-year-olds in England 📈 We are pleased to announce Luciana Berger as the Chair of our independent Mental Health Advisory Group, which will guide the direction of this work 🤝 Clinicians, leading academics and policy stakeholders have been brought together to steer this project, which is being carried out in partnership with the The University of Manchester and UCL. Find out more here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gSABXSJR

Last chance to submit your evidence on what works to promote EDI in the workplace!    The Institute for Employment Studies (IES) are working with us to collate evidence on what works to promote employer action and behaviour change in relation to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), with a particular focus on young people from Black, Pakistani and Bangladeshi backgrounds.     To capture the existing evidence, IES will systematically interrogate relevant materials in the public domain. But, we know there will be good quality evidence that may not be publicly available.    If you have evidence that you’d like to recommend, we’d love to know about it. Find out more about what we’re looking for and how to submit evidence, before Thursday 31 October:     https://lnkd.in/ehizRqnA 

🔈 To mark #NationalMentoringDay, Football Beyond Borders practitioner Khai tells us why the support he provides as a trusted adult is important for young people. Our Building Futures programme in partnership with Football Beyond Borders will test the power of mentoring and wellbeing support for secondary school students at risk of missing out on further learning or employment. The design of the programme will have the strongest international evidence for mentoring at its heart. ➡️https://lnkd.in/ekxZjrjC

𝑨𝒑𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒂 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉 𝑽𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝑨𝒎𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑭𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝑽𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝑮𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒑! ⭐    Do you know a young person who has faced challenges when trying to get or keep a job?     Do they want to gain valuable, paid careers experience while amplifying youth voice and helping to change the system for young people?     For full details about the role, read the Recruitment Pack ➡ https://lnkd.in/euXAuGB2    Apply here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ehNjxXHS    ⏰ The deadline to apply is 17 November 2024.