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Building ‘a place where everyone feels they belong’ 

News 11 September 2024

Our new collaborative initiative aims to accelerate a fairer and more inclusive future for West Midlands communities

Community-led research and innovation in action

25 September 2024
9:30am – 12:30pm

A celebration event for the Community Knowledge Fund, showing what’s possible when local communities lead research and innovation projects, addressing the issues that matter most to them. 

Helping nature thrive and survive in Derbyshire

News 28 August 2024

New collaborative project invites residents to help shape a Local Nature Recovery Strategy to protect wildlife

Tackling physical inactivity across the capital

News 21 August 2024

Groundbreaking partnership with London Sport to tackle inequalities in physical inactivity across the capital.

UKRI and The Young Foundation partner on UK-wide community research programme 

News 31 July 2024

New collaboration drives diverse, locally-led research and innovation.  

Creating ‘a town built on fairness’

News 30 April 2024

With a new £1.9m award from the National Lottery Community Fund, we’re building on our recent work in the Luton area, working with local communities to help overcome social, economic, and environmental challenges  

A five-point plan for a green and fair future

Blog 8 February 2024

Net zero transition must leave no one behind, says Emily Morrison – and our research shows how national policy can make it so

Big Challenge Education winners announced

News 24 January 2024

Competition celebrates young people’s innovations in education, with winners addressing climate anxiety, healthy eating, and technology-enabled support for blind and visually impaired people

Revolutionising institutions: the enduring legacy of Michael Young 

Feature 30 November 2023

In a world of social movements, networks and fast-paced change, Young shows us that institutions prevail as fashions and political agendas come and go. By Helen Goulden.

‘Take ‘no’ as a question’: seven habits for serial change-makers

Feature 29 November 2023

Sir Geoff Mulgan, former CEO of The Young Foundation, remembers Michael Young and shares qualities he possessed that seem particularly relevant to the world more than a century after his birth. 

‘His values guide our future’: Michael and the Youngian vision of Social Research

Feature 23 November 2023

Aspects of Michael Young’s vision, dating back to over half a century, feel urgently relevant today, says Stian Westlake, Executive Chair, ESRC.

‘Stories not statistics’: the influence of Michael Young in today’s Britain

Feature 13 November 2023

Alastair Wilson, CEO of the School for Social Entrepreneurs, says his institution, which Young founded in 1997, still transforms lives and communities around the world.