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Young Academy welcomes new cohort to education venture accelerator
MEDIA NOTICE 2 October – Today The Young Academy welcomes a new cohort of early-stage social ventures committed to improving the educational outcomes for disadvantaged young people to its flagship accelerator programme. The Young Academy Accelerator is an intensive and specialist business support programme. Participants will attend intensive workshops and receive one-to-one support from social impact experts, volunteer advisors and education sector leaders. Our goal is to create... Find out more

Young Foundation responds to MP’s £2bn affordable housing announcement
Housing associations to be given £2bn in new funding to help them build low-cost homes, under plans announced by Theresa May today (19 September 2018) at the National Housing Summit. John Piper, Programme Manager – Innovation, The Young Foundation comments: “For the first time in years, we have a housing policy aimed at specifically benefitting... Find out more

New commissioning guide from The Young Foundation supports schools to tackle educational inequality
The Young Foundation has launched a good-practice guide to support schools to more effectively commission innovative services, especially those which aim to tackle educational inequality.
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The Young Foundation appointed by NHS to create guidance for Healthy New Towns programme
The Young Foundation has been appointed by NHS England (NHSE), in partnership with the Town and Country Planning Association, the King’s Fund and others, to create a publication for the development of the Healthy New Towns programme, showing those involved how they can embed health and wellbeing from the outset. Originating from the NHS... Find out more

Social movement Action for Happiness becomes an independent charity
In the context of our growing mental health crisis and the importance of finding new solutions, we are proud to announce the spin-out of Action for Happiness as an independent charity. Action for Happiness is a grassroots movement of people taking action to build a happier and more caring society. It was launched within The... Find out more

The Young Foundation launches new housing innovation programme to unlock solutions in the private rented housing sector
As the Government focuses its recent budget on an overloaded, crisis-ridden housing sector, today (5/12/17) The Young Foundation launches its first Reimagining Rent ventures cohort, funded by the Nationwide Foundation. Reimagining Rent is a unique programme working with innovative initiatives that are tackling many of the challenges of the private rented sector that have detrimental effects... Find out more

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

The Young Academy invests in next round of innovative ventures tackling educational disadvantage
The Young Academy, The Young Foundation’s innovation programme tackling educational inequalities has announced investments totalling over £200,000 in three ventures it has incubated.
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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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