Youth Investment Fund
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YIF: Dashboard
On 11 May 2021.
Our interactive dashboard providing an overview of the shared evaluation of the Youth Investment Fund.
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YIF8: Simulating the economic benefits of youth work
By Alex Miller.
On 11 May 2021.
In our eighth Learning and Insight paper, we report on our model for simulating the economic benefits of open access youth provision.
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YIF7: Findings from a shared evaluation of open access youth provision
On 11 May 2021.
Our seventh Learning and Insight paper shares the findings of our shared evaluation of the Youth Investment Fund.
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Youth Investment Fund learning and insight paper six
On 29 January 2021.
In our sixth Learning and Insight paper we reflect on what we have learnt from the experience of the YIF learning and evaluation project, with a view to informing future open access youth provision learning and evaluation initiatives.
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YIF5: Findings from the YIF case study process evaluation
By Karen Scanlon, Sarah Williams, and Abigail Rose .
On 30 November 2020.
This qualitative strand of the YIF learning project explores how open access youth provision works, why youth organisations take the approaches they do; how provision is experienced by young people; the effect and relevance of contextual factors; and how this all relates to positive change.
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YIF4: Emerging findings from the Youth Investment Fund Learning Project
On 28 September 2020.
Early findings about the quality and impact of open access youth provision, with insights into the development of feasible and meaningful evaluation approaches for this field.
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Youth Investment Fund learning and insight paper three
On 6 August 2020.
This paper describes the YIF shared outcomes measurement framework that has been developed for the YIF-funded organisations, and set out the rationale behind the outcomes framework design.
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YIF2: Background to the YIF economic simulation model
By Leanne Bennett.
On 19 June 2019.
This is the second in a series of Learning and Insight papers published as part of the learning project for the Youth Investment Fund (YIF). This review aims to help inform the development of an economic simulation model for the YIF.
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Youth Investment Fund learning and insight paper one
On 30 April 2019.
This paper describes the shared evaluation framework that has been developed across the 90 YIF-funded organisations. It is aimed at anyone working within, supporting or providing funding and resources for informal and non-formal learning provision for young people in the UK.
