PRESS RELEASE Six innovations ready to tackle UK’s dysfunctional housing market The Young Foundation accelerates social enterprises that support vulnerable private sector renters 25 September 2018 – London, UK Today, The Young Foundation welcomes six new projects to the Reimaging Rent accelerator — the UK’s only innovation programme focussed on tackling issues of affordability, quality and... Find out more
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The Young Foundation to partner with Ormeau Baths on social innovation in Belfast
Ormeau Baths has announced a new partnership with social innovation and research pioneers The Young Foundation, which will also see the Foundation become residents at the Baths. Ormeau Baths is a collaborative entrepreneurial campus that helps the brightest and best indigenous tech start-ups gain access to new networks, funding and expertise and give them... Find out more
Local groups in Northern Ireland unveil their big ideas for tackling inequality
Change makers from across Northern Ireland are today pitching their big ideas for tackling inequality to funders and experts at Belfast’s Innovation Factory.
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New generation of cutting edge community projects changing Northern Ireland
This local, community-driven approach, part of The Young Foundation's Amplify programme is gaining traction around the world. The work of AmplifyNI will be celebrated at Community Powered Change: Telling Stories, Growing Ideas, at Ulster University Business School on Monday, May 8th.
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The Young Foundation reveals a new way to reimagine our economy through a trailblazing model of economic and social equality.
Young Foundation research launched on 5th April on the Mondragon Corporation reveals a large global business owned by its workers delivering economic and social equality by combining success in the marketplace with social benefit. Mondragon, the world’s largest worker-led cooperatives association with annual revenues of over €12 billion (equivalent to those of Kellogg’s and Visa),... Find out more
‘Communities Can’ demonstrates how capacity building programmes can help strengthen small organizations.
Community organisations possess a deep understanding of the needs of their communities and demonstrate great persistence and resilience in addressing these needs. However, they can face a lack of access to development. Communities Can, a 2-year pilot to test how best to provide organisational development support for small community groups, set out to demonstrate how... Find out more
New research with Welsh communities shows deep loyalty to places they live, but barriers perpetuate inequality
Today The Young Foundation launches Valuing Place, its Welsh Government funded research into the lived experience of over 350 people in three Welsh communities; Port Talbot, Connah's Quay and Aberystwyth.
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Over £1 million in Lottery Funding to support local people to make changes in their communities
The Young Foundation has been awarded the money to develop the Amplify project. Amplify will bring people, groups and organisations together to tackle problems in their communities.
Find out moreRemoval of public benches threatens community life
Benches are valued as public, egalitarian and free social resource. Read more about the report now.
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Communities Can – Launch Event
On Monday, 29 June 2015, The Young Foundation will host an event to launch Communities Can, a pilot programme funded by the Big Lottery Fund. This exciting new programme is focused on providing support to small, informal community groups in five Local Authority areas in England: Barking and Dagenham, Blackpool, Peterborough, Sunderland and Torbay. Our... Find out more