COVID-19 LEARNING PARTNERSHIP
Evidence translation
Dartington Service Design Lab, Centre for Youth Impact, Research in Practice and the University of Plymouth to form the Learning Partnership for the new Youth Endowment Fund COVID-19 Grant Round.
The Learning Partner will work closely with the Youth Endowment Fund and grantees funded in this special round, to understand the impact of COVID-19 on young people at risk of being drawn into violent crime, and the most effective approaches to reaching, engaging and serving vulnerable young people during the pandemic.
The need
With access to schools restricted and the provision of youth services severely reduced during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, young people at risk of youth violence have become increasingly “invisible”. At the same time, they have lost much of the help and guidance they rely on. The Youth Endowment Fund announced it would commit up to £6.5m in new grants to find the best ways to reach “increasingly invisible” vulnerable young people during the current COVID-19 restrictions.
Our response
Over the next 12 months, the Learning Partner will work closely with grantees to generate and disseminate learning grounded in evidence. The Learning Partner will also create essential resources to support grantees as they adapt their work with and for young people, and draw out learning, to be disseminated amongst grantees, the Youth Endowment Fund and the wider sector.
What next?
We encourage our grantees to check through our FAQs to find out more about the process, the learning activities and role of the Learning Partner. These will be updated as the project continues to evolve.
Should you not be able to find an answer in the FAQs, please contact