The Young Foundation brings together insights, innovation and entrepreneurship to meet social needs. We have a track record of over 50 years' success with ventures such as the Open University, Which?, the School for Social Entrepreneurs and Healthline (the precursor of NHS Direct).
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Let’s go fly a kite!
Dr Marcia Brophy is a Programme Leader at the Young Foundation and is currently on sabbatical working as a Mental Health and Wellbeing Development Worker and Training Advisor in Jaffna, north Sri Lanka. In this blog post she describes her experiences on World Mental Health Day and explores both positive and negative responses to mental health and wellbeing issues in Sri Lanka.
Can we teach resilience? Brigadier General Rhonda Cornum on Emotional Fitness
In this high profile lecture Brigadier General Cornum will be exploring the issue of whether resilience is a skill we can teach and explore how we might do this in the UK.
About time too? Critical changes in the field of young people’s resilience
A lunchtime seminar with Professor Angie Hart and Kim Aumann.
Doing the right thing
The productivity challenge means staff should have a greater role in planning and achieving efficiencies, says Young Foundation programme leader Neil Reeder.
Growth needs Learning
Enabling Enterprise founder and CEO Tom Ravenscroft explores the critical role education, especially certain non-conventional approaches to education, can play in generating growth in the UK economy.

































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