News & thoughts

We are on the hunt for #iwill Ambassadors and Champions who are looking for their next leadership opportunity to help shape and draw together learning from within and across the #iwill movement!

As Just One Question reaches its 100th question, Catherine Mitchell reflects on how the survey has helped shaped our work over the years, and what's next for the weekly tool.

For this month’s Our Thoughts, the Centre’s Director of Strategy and Learning Kaz Stuart reflects on why we, as a sector, should champion practitioner-led publications, and shares tips on how to get started on your own writing journey.

Each month, members of the team share writing that has made us think, inspired our work, or piqued our interest. Check out what we've been reading in July.

For this month's Our Thoughts, the Centre's Project Manager Jo Hickman-Dunne delves into the wide-ranging terminology of youth voice, and how diversity in language can strengthen our evaluative approaches.

Each month, members of the team share writing that has made us think, inspired our work, or piqued our interest. Check out what we've been reading in June.

Do you support young people to engage in decision-making with organisations that are addressing issues that matter to them? Find out about our latest research, as part of the Centre’s Maximising Young People’s Voice and Power project, collaboratively funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation, BBC Children in Need and the National Lottery Community Fund.

For this month's Our Thoughts, Head of Partnerships Steve Hillman reflects on how the Centre's measurement tools are helping to champion quality improvement in evaluation.

In this section, 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 below!

The Centre's Associate Louisa Thomson introduces the findings from our rapid needs analysis, conducted throughout February and March, and supported by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.

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 below!

For this month’s ‘Our Thoughts’, Enterprise Development Programme Manager Soizic Hagege reflects on peer-to-peer learning, one of the defining features of the Enterprise Development Programme, as the EDP draws to a close.

Jo Hickman Dunne and Tom Burke explain why the Centre is consulting on a new standardised way of describing youth voice practices in the UK.  

NPC, the Centre for Youth Impact, the Charity Evaluation Working Group (ChEW), and the Social Investment Consultancy (TSIC) are pleased to announce that we have come together to advance thinking and practice on more equitable evaluative practice in the UK social sector, through a collective model

Louisa Thomson introduces our rapid needs analysis and how these insights will be used to inform our package of support to the sector.

In an extended 'Our Thoughts' this month to mark SEL Day, Catherine Mitchell explores how a focus on social and emotional learning (SEL) in our practice and evaluation could support us with a more consistent, intentional, and equitable approach to quality.