The Young Foundation → Our Work → Youth & education Search for: Join our mailing list Sign Up Sign up for Newsletter Email Address Page printed from http://youngfoundation.org/our-work/young-people-learning-work/ The Young Foundation About Us Who we are History Contact Us Office space and room hire Our Work Structural inequality Social innovation & investment Youth & education Health, wellbeing & ageing Gender Places Our Teams Research Applied Innovation Ventures Transnational Movement Building News & Events Events Press releases News Resources Blog Get Involved Gender Places Structural inequality Youth & education Health, wellbeing & ageing Social innovation & investment Youth & education Young people are living, learning and negotiating their lives in an increasingly complex and challenging world. This calls for empowered, resilient young people, who play an active role in navigating their own paths. For the past 60 years, The Young Foundation, and its predecessors and spin-offs, have worked to support young people to live fulfilled lives. We are passionate about reducing the inequality they face and work alongside governments, schools, universities, funders, charities, social enterprises and businesses to do so. We also run the Young Academy, providing specialist capacity development and risk capital to social enterprises whose work raises the attainment of disadvantaged young people in England. Our work includes Realising Ambition, the Young Persons Outcomes Framework, the seminal publication Grit, the pioneering of the Studio Schools movement, delivering Bounce Back in schools, supporting emotional resilience for gang members in Harrow and work on ‘SEED skills’. We bring together venturing, research, practical action and networks of people to make a real difference. We bring extensive experience of supporting the replication of outstanding innovation, social investment in young people, and empowering young people to act. Keep up to date with our work on youth and education by signing up to our mailing list, or find out more by getting in touch with Claire Hardy, Director of Applied Innovation: Claire.hardy@youngfoundation.org Resources Events Posts More on Realising Ambition - Lessons on replication and evidenced based interventions Every year thousands of children and young people enter the criminal justice system for the first time. This has a maj ... → Read More Scoping a quality framework for youth social action Young people who take part in social action, or “practical action in the service of others”, deserve to have the kno ... → Read More Nice House, Good Job: Improving educational attainment in West Norfolk Authors: Mhairi Aylott, Nina Mguni The Borough Council of Kings Lynn and West Norfolk is leading an ambitious programme of action which aims to change the ... → Read More From Growing Interest to Interest Grown: Is the youth sector ready for social investment? Author: Gemma Rocyn Jones Being a young person in the UK today is tough. Unemployment, failures in the education system and high levels of young ... → Read More Load More More on Preventing youth offending: Can we replicate success in early intervention? Date : 18 July 2013 Join us for a parliamentary reception to celebrate the first year of the Realising Ambition programme. ... → Read More Social investment in education: reducing the attainment gap Date : 27 June 2013 Join us for the launch of our latest report exploring the role of social investment on reducing the educational attainme ... → Read More Bounce Back! One Day Training Workshop- April 2013 Date : 25 April 2013 Bounce Back! is a one day resilience-based skills training course for people who work in the children's sector. ... → Read More Social Investment – the What’s, the Why’s and the How’s Date : 20 March 2013 An introduction to social investment for organisations working in the voluntary youth sector. ... → Read More Load More More on Using the power of social ventures to create a 21st century education system Author: Anna Smee Most young people currently acquire the skills and experiences they need through a combination of school and family supp ... → Read More For disruption in education? Join us! Author: Ashley Elizabeth Ball Today we are excited to announce our latest initiative – The Young Academy. Building upon the legacy of Michael You ... → Read More Journey of a Social Entrepreneur - The Philosophy Foundation Author: Malcolm Dean Social entrepreneurs come in all shapes and sizes as the previous six profiles in this series vividly demonstrate. This ... → Read More Innovation and inequality in Colombia Author: Tricia Hackett Earlier this month, The Young Foundation and Social Innovation Exchange (SIX) collaborated to design and run a series of ... → Read More Load More Highlighted projects Realising Ambition Project The Young Foundation is a member of the consortium appointed to manage Realising Ambition which is a £25 million Big Lo ... → Read More UpRising Project The Young Foundation started the UpRising Leadership Programme as a way to open pathways to leadership for talented youn ... → Read More View All Projects About Us People Partner with us History Victoria Park Square Vacancies Contact Us Our Work Gender Places Structural inequality Youth & education Health, wellbeing & ageing Social innovation & investment Our Teams Movement Building Research Applied Innovation Ventures Transnational News & Events Events Press releases News Get Involved Contribute Join our mailing list Resources Blog © The Young Foundation 2014 reception@youngfoundation.org +44 (0)20 8980 6263 T & C Privacy