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The Centre for Youth Impact is committed to working collaboratively to progress thinking and practice in impact measurement in youth work and provision for young people. Our vision is for all young people to have access to high quality programmes and services that improve their life chances.

We aim to work in collaboration with others to test, learn and build momentum behind the impact agenda, across organisations working with young people. You can read about our current projects here.

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Announcing our new Chair
We are delighted to be able to announce that the Centre for Youth Impact has a new Chair. The Centre grew and developed significantly under the leadership of Thomas Lawson, who stood down in March this year, and now we can formally announce Martin Houghton-Brown as the Centre’s new Chair. Martin takes the reins from 6 June, and all the staff and trustees are looking forward to working with him as we reflect on the first five years of the Centre and look to the future.
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Everybody counts or nobody counts: striving to get recruitment right
The more eagle-eyed amongst you may have noticed that we appear to have been doing a lot of recruitment recently. We’re not looking to expand the Centre to the size of a couple of 11-a-side football teams though; it’s just that we haven’t got it quite right yet... It’s unlikely that we’ll ever know the precise reasons why (always a frustration for a researcher!), but we’ve spent a fair bit of time reflecting as we prepare to go out to recruit again.
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