Inspiring Futures
Our multi-million grants programme responding to the Covid-19 pandemic in partnership with BBC Children in Need
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CloseWe provided £7 million in emergency funding to help 85 frontline charities and social enterprises in England respond to the pandemic.
Organisations used the funding to support over 15,000 children and young people aged 10 to 24 on their journey towards employment.
Funding was targeted at projects that work with children and young people who experience discrimination or disadvantages that create short or long-term barriers to employment.
The flexibility of the funding enabled organiastions to prioritise their key areas of need, which included:
We comissioned Cordis Bright to independently evaluate the Inspiring Futures programme.
It looked at:
We worked with young peer researchers at every stage of the evaluation, in a process called co-production.
The young peer researchers were involved in:
Five principles for emerged for supporting children and young people’s employment pathways effectively in practice:
Recommendations were co-developed during a series of workshops with programme stakeholders, young peer researchers, strategic stakeholders with policy insight, and deliver organisations.
These included:
Discover more details in the full reports below.