Inspiring Futures: case studies

Summary

Youth Futures Foundation and BBC Children in Need funded Cordis Bright to independently evaluate the Inspiring Futures programme between December 2020 and March 2023.

This document presents eight deep-dive case studies developed as part of the evaluation:

1. Autism Bedfordshire
2. Babbasa Youth Empowerment Project
3. Circle Collective
4. Sound Connections
5. Sport 4 Life
6. The Proud Trust
7. Trelya
8. Westminster House Youth Club

They represent a cross-sample of the work of the total 85 Inspiring Futures grantees in England.

They were co-produced with the grantees and explore promising practice and interesting approaches.

Evaluation approach

The evaluation focused on:

1. the implementation of Inspiring Futures and how it responded to the needs, challenges and opportunities presented by the COVID-19 pandemic
2. the differences made by Inspiring Futures
3. learning for the future.

Further outputs

This report can be read in conjunction with the following outputs, which provide more detail on the findings included in this report:

• Full evaluation report – containing insights, learnings and recommendations
• Technical appendix – presents the analysis of secondary monitoring report data collected by BBC CIN and YFF as part of Inspiring Futures.
• Covid-19 specific report
• Tailored summary reports for: (1) practitioners and frontline
  organisations; (2) strategic stakeholders, funders, commissioners and policymakers; and (3) children and young people.