We are working in partnership with leading cancer charities, Young Lives vs Cancer, Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group (CCLG), Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust and Teenage Cancer Trust to build a new evidence base looking at the needs of young cancer patients and how the current system supports them. The research will identify gaps and what needs to happen in order to build a better future for children and young people diagnosed with cancer.

We are carrying out a participatory pilot study to determine whether Career Ahead can be delivered as intended and contribute to improvements in skills, cultural capital, education and employment outcomes.

Using a community participatory approach, we are working with a team of community researchers from Lambeth to undertake a mixed method developmental and summative evaluation of LEAP which is A Better Start Project in Lambeth.

We are working as an evaluator and Learning Partner for the Youth Endowment Fund, supporting their work with those at risk of youth violence.

The projects we are currently working on are: Becoming a Man, Pause For Thought, COVID-19 Learning Partnership, Big Brothers Little Sisters and Neighbourhood Fund.

We have joined forces with PEDAL to apply our rapid-cycle design and testing approach in a new and exciting way. For us, it’s learning how our approach works when driven by others, with us riding along and coaching in the backseat. For our partners, it’s learning whether they can use our approach to quickly adapt for online delivery of an evidence-based face-to-face book sharing intervention

Inclusion as Prevention is a system change initiative seeking to collaboratively re-shape the design and delivery of preventative services for young people who are at risk of involvement in offending. The aim is to shift practice from reactive and crisis driven approaches, to instead identify and intervene at an earlier in young peoples’ lives.

Connected from the Start is a design collaboration between early years charities that aims to develop a product or service which will help volunteers, community connectors and social entrepreneurs to help parents with children in the early years during the COVID-19 response and beyond.

Over the last few years, both the Dartington Service Design Lab and the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University have been working on approaches to help accelerate the impact of early years services. In 2019, we collaborated with the Harvard Center, to run three days of training on the IDEAS Impact Framework: a new approach to service development and evaluation, created by the Center.

The Uniformed Youth Fund is part of the Government’s ‘National Youth Guarantee’ to ensure every young person across England will have access to regular out of school activities, adventures away from home and opportunities to volunteer. Together with our partners at Ipsos, we are evaluating how successful the Fund has been in its goal of reducing waiting lists, and exploring how young people may benefit from being part of Uniformed Youth Groups.

Reimagining Secure Care is a systemic change programme in Scotland to transform children and young people’s experiences of settings where their liberty is deprived and to find alternatives to being removed from their families and communities to access the additional support they need.

Reimagining Justice is a programme of transformational change to help redefine services for children and young people on the cusp of or in conflict with the law in Scotland.

The Youth Endowment Fund’s ‘Neighbourhood Fund’ is a partnership with select local communities where young people are more vulnerable to experiencing crime and violence across England and Wales. In each locality, the Neighbourhood Fund partners with community members and organisations to understand the problems that their communities are facing, and co-design solutions that are responsive to local needs. The aim of this work is to better understand how empowering people to design solutions for their local neighbourhood needs can build resilience amongst young people who are vulnerable to experiencing crime and violence.