In June 2021, The Young Foundation partnered with Youth Futures Foundation and the Mohn Westlake Foundation to recruit young people through the government-funded Kickstart Scheme and train them as peer researchers. The scheme targets 16 to 24-year-olds on Universal Credit deemed to be at risk of long-term unemployment. Over the past six months, we’ve seen the researchers recruited build their skills and... Find out more

The Tower Hamlets Communities Driving Change (CDC) programme is a new way of supporting communities to thrive, in a borough where health inequalities are rife. It’s a new type of relationship between institutions and residents, and a change to who has control over local health and wellbeing priorities. It’s about working in an open way... Find out more

The Tower Hamlets Communities Driving Change (CDC) programme supports residents to take action for improved health and wellbeing in their communities. This involves hearing about the issues which matter to them, co-designing and developing grassroots solutions, and connecting them with other people, services and organisations to enable real change. Our new report shares the approach... Find out more

In the summer of 2020, the Tower Hamlets Communities Driving Change (CDC) team at The Young Foundation came together with FutureGov to understand how communities have responded to the public health challenge of Covid-19 to date as part of CDC. We wanted to explore how we can work together as a programme to ensure we... Find out more

Funded by Power to Change, this Community Businesses and COVID-19 report explores the impacts of Covid-19 on community businesses in England and the ways they adapted in response. Community businesses provide support to communities all over the country. They are at the heart of everyday life, which has radically changed over a short period of time. Over a 12-week... Find out more

Between late 2018 and early 2020, a team of community researchers from across Barking and Dagenham came together to explore experiences of living and working in the borough, and how change can happen to create a more cohesive community. The work came to an end just as the Covid-19 pandemic hit the UK in earnest.... Find out more

As part of our Covid-19 and Community Life study, generously funded by a Wellcome Trust public engagement grant, we are excited to be sharing the fourth snapshot of our insights in a new report on vaccines.  Download the report In recent weeks, the news has been scattered with announcements about vaccine developments- with three potentially effective vaccines making headlines.... Find out more

Following on from our Peer Research in the UK report, we are delighted to be sharing our companion piece: Peer Research in a Policy Context, commissioned by The Open University. With increasing interest towards evidence-based policy, comes a greater understanding of the value in using the experience and perspectives of people directly affected by social... Find out more

We’re delighted to be sharing with you a new report – Peer Research in the UK – which takes an in-depth look at the use of peer research in the UK today. It aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to the methodology and advocate for its value as a legitimate and insightful research approach, with... Find out more

A week by week archive of life during a pandemic. Understanding the impact on people and communities. Covid-19 has radically changed the way we go about our day-to-day lives. It has shifted where we turn for help and support and how we interact with friends, family and neighbours. To better understand the short- and long-term... Find out more