News & thoughts

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.

Each month, members of the team share writing that has made us think, inspired our work, or piqued our interest. 

Read what we've been reading this month.

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.

Members of our Young Evaluators Panel and Project Manager Jo reflect on their first residential together. 

This month, Kelly Bradshaw-Walsh reflects on why celebrating success is an important part of learning.

This month, Steve Hillman reflects on the rise of participatory evaluation and how storytelling can be a tool in learning and understanding.

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'.

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.

This month, in a guest blog from across the pond, Dr Charles 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. 

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, we’re announcing a major new project. We are so excited to be working with the Centre for Evidence and Implementation and Bryson Purdon Social Research to test an innovative approach to evaluation: multi-site trials of practice. 

Midway through our research into social enterprise and enterprise development, the Centre's Dr Jo Hickman-Dunne takes a look at the latest insights from the research and what it's telling us so far.

For August's 'Our Thoughts', Executive Director Tom Burke, reflects on how learning-focused organisations like the Centre can continue to evolve their safeguarding framework.

The Centre for Youth Impact is pleased to announce our appointment as the Learning and Evaluation partner in understanding the impact of youth voice within the #iwill Fund.

This month, Bethia McNeil, CEO at the Centre for Youth Impact, ponders the meaning and emerging focus of ‘learning’ within evaluation.