How YWU supports the sector
Funding
A listing of available funding from small one-off grants to multiple year funding.
Regional, National and International News
Latest news in the Youth sector, Regionally, Nationally and Internationally.
Reports
The latest reports affecting the sector, finding information and links to them all here.
Jobs & Opportunities
Current roles in the youth work sector from across the region.
Events & Training notices
A listing, with links to the YWU events and more.
Funding
We are all too aware of the difficulties faced by all providers of youth work in these difficult times with rising costs to provide and increasing demand on services continue. Funding becomes even more vital we aim to provide access to funding opportunities from small one of grants to long-term multiple year funding.
Through its new £1 million, three-year Bright Futures Fund, the Societe Generale UK Foundation is offering unrestricted grants of up to £50,000 to UK registered charities and charitable organisations for projects and initiatives across the UK which directly support people from marginalised groups to be empowered and equipped to access education and employment.
The funding must further a recognised charitable purpose. This might include advancing education, relieving unemployment, prevention or relief of poverty, advancement of health, relief of sickness or relief of need because of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.
Projects should develop key skills, attitudes and attributes to foster equitable education and employment outcomes nationwide.
Projects must demonstrate a clear and measurable impact, ensuring that individuals from marginalised communities are supported to meet one or more of the following goals:
- Pursue and sustain their aspirations.
- Enhance their confidence and self-belief.
- Strengthen their mental health, wellbeing, and resilience.
One-year grants of between £10,000 and £50,000 are available this year. Multiple year funding may be available next year. Applicants should not apply for a grant that exceeds 30% of the last year’s income of their organisation.
Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) is delivering the fund, and Expressions of Interest are to be made via the CAF online portal.
The deadline for Expressions of Interest is 3 June 2025.
The charity Rosa is providing organisational development funding for Black and racially minoritised-led women’s and girls’ organisations across the UK. The Rise Fund was last available three years ago.
The funding will support organisational development work relating to areas such as strategy, governance, leadership, alliances and partnerships, funding, demonstrating impact and systems and processes.
Two-year grants of between £10,000 (£5,000 per year) and £40,000 (£20,000 per year) are available. The grant should be spent by December 2027.
The grants can be used for:
- Direct staff costs
- Associated staff costs
- Volunteer costs
- General running costs, which could include rent, utility costs, insurances and any other costs related to the day to day running of the organisation. Up to 25% of the total request can be general running costs.
A range of not-for-profit organisations can apply as long as they are constituted and:
- Have the principal objective of working with and for Black and minoritised women and/or girls.
- Have Black and minoritised women and/or girls as the majority of their beneficiaries both now and in the future.
- Have at least 75% of their senior management team and trustees/governing body as Black and minoritised women and/or girls.
- Ensure their activities are charitable, legal and for the benefit of Black and minoritised women and/or girls.
- Have an income of between £30,000 and £300,000 from their last set of annual accounts.
Priority will be given to organisations led by and for Black and racially minoritised women, which are also:
- Operating in the top 20% of the most disadvantaged areas in the UK-based on the Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD).
- Based in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.
- Led by and for disabled women and girls.
- Led by and for LGBTQ+ women and girls.
Organisations which meet more than one of the above priorities will be given higher priority than those that meet one priority.
Rosa is especially keen to fund organisations which are created from and connected to the communities they serve, designing their services based on direct, lived experience and involving their beneficiaries in decision-making.
In addition, organisations that have not previously been funded by the Rise Fund will be prioritised.
Rosa will be hosting two ‘How to Apply’ webinars to help groups develop their applications:
- 5 June (12:00 to 13:00)
- 10 June (16:30 to 17:30)
The registration links can be found on Rosa’s website.
The deadline for grant applications is 23 June 2025 (16:00).
Unrestricted grants are available to support not-for-profit organisations that are helping young people with experience of the youth justice system to re-build their lives and settle back into their communities within the UK.
A total of £1.75 million is available for this round. Grants of up to £30,000 per year for five years (a maximum value of £150,000 over the five years) are available. It is anticipated that around 10 organisations will receive a grant.
Applications will be accepted from not-for-profit organisations:
- With an annual income of £250,000 or less.
- That are registered and operate exclusively in the United Kingdom.
- Have two or more unrelated directors or trustees on the Board.
- That primarily support justice-experienced young people aged 10-25 years old.
- Which have a sole purpose of supporting justice-experienced young people to re-engage with their community.
In order to be successful, organisations should be able to demonstrate that they:
- Support young people to navigate the social stigma which can be associated for those with experience of the justice system.
- Have strong, existing relationships with referral agencies to ensure a smooth transition out of the justice system.
- Have experience of developing routes for young people transitioning from the justice system into training and employment.
- Have experience of supporting young people to develop skills that help them feel empowered to make positive changes in their lives.
- Value lived experience and have justice experienced young people involved in their governance and/or service delivery.
- Have experience of building flexible, consistent, positive relationships with young people.
Full details will be available once the Fund opens for applications.
Applications will be accepted from 15 May 2025 to 12 June 2025 (midday).
Regional, National and International News
23 May 2025
National & International News
Changes to Apprenticeship criteria announced
New Policy Updates for 2025/26 The Department for Education has recently announced changes that simplify and clarify apprenticeship delivery: Flexibl ...
20 May 2025
YWU News
Young people and employment May 2025
Yesterday saw the YWU hosted at LBU by #ChooseYouthWork a workshop for the DWP and other organisations providing support to young people around employ ...
20 May 2025
YWU News
Yorkshire and The Humber’s Connect Conference
Last Tuesday saw youth work sector workers from across the region come together in Leeds where we deep dived to explore and add responses to the natio ...
19 May 2025
National & International News
Youth Services Debate – part 2: The package of funding announced by Lisa Nandy for 2025-26 includes:
Over £28 million to increase access to more and better enriching activities, to ensure that young people can continue to access opportunities, no mat ...
Reports
Regional News | Reports
WEST YORKSHIRE YOUTH COMMISSION 2024/25 REPORT TO THE WEST YORKSHIRE VIOLENCE REDUCTION PARTNERSHIP
17 May 2025
The report shares the Youth Commission's work throughout 2024/2025, including the successful 'I took a seat for...' campaign, as well as their key fi ...
National & International News | Reports
Curriculum and Assessment Review: Interim Report
17 May 2025
In July 2024, the government commissioned Professor Becky Francis CBE to lead a panel of experts in reviewing England’s national curriculum and statu ...
Reports
NSPCC – Safeguarding Reforms at Risk as Research Highlights Significant Strain on Home Education Staff of Local Authorities
17 May 2025
The NSPCC are highlighting issues facing local authority home education teams in England. Concerning new data has revealed resourcing strains are af ...
Reports
Young people are less work-ready, say employers
11 May 2025
Young people are less ready for work and risk overselling themselves in job applications as employers raise concerns about artificial intelligence (A ...
Reports
Children’s views on assisted dying
11 May 2025
As Children’s Commissioner, it is my greatest privilege to listen to children and to amplify their voices on the issues that matter most to them — bo ...
Reports
Excluded Lives Project – Equity by Design: ‘Our Children, Our Responsibility’ Report
10 May 2025
This new report from the Excluded Lives Project offers policy and practice recommendations for developing school inclusion and reducing school exclus ...
Reports
Government Must Step Up Efforts to Increase HPV Vaccine Uptake WEC Warns, One Year on From Its STI’s Report
10 May 2025
The Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) has urged the Government to “step up efforts” to improve HPV vaccine uptake among young people, following it ...
Reports
Leap Confronting Conflict – impact report
9 May 2025
It tells the story of what has been a transformational year for Leap Confronting Conflict. From school sessions to youth-led campaigns, social worker ...
Resources
Job Opportunities
Are you looking for your first role in youth work? Or perhaps you are looking to use your established knowledge and skills in a new role. Our jobs listing may just be what you need.
Individual organisations are invited to list their vacancy(ies) on our page for free. However, the YWU take no responsibility for the content of external vacancy listings.
Do you have a vacancy you want to advertise? Contact the team on theunit@youthworkunit.com
Youth Worker Opportunities
Here you will find opportunities for all working with young people from training opportunities to being involved with national projects. Please note that unless clearly stated these opportunities are not provided by the Youth Work Unit and do not take no responsibility for their content.
Do you have an opportunity you want to advertise? Contact the team on theunit@youthworkunit.com
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Summer Employment Programmes: A potential approach to reduce children becoming involved in violence?
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Can you support the Department for Culture, Media and Sport with a brilliant Honours nomination? Following the fantastic individuals across the nation who received an Honour in June, the Department is ...
surveys for the West Yorkshire Youth Commission. We are working in partnership with the West Yorkshire Violence Reduction Partnership and the Mayor of West Yorkshire to tackle violence and exploitatio ...
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This Thursday - 08 August 2024 at 12:00, a free 1 hour workshop that will leave you equipped to champion diversity on boards. This is held monthly, with new dates regularly added About this event: Whe ...
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Having launched the WYCA Child First Framework, placing children at the heart of decision making. It puts an emphasis on meaningful collaboration, whether this be through co-production, co-design, or ...
Do you work with or support young people that might be interested in influencing a national research project on social prescribing? For just two hours of their time, participants will be financially r ...
Even with all the improvements we have planned for our trains, buses, walking and cycling routes, we still won’t have completed the transport network our region wants, needs and deserves. Not without ...
Are you looking for ideas to get you out of the house in the summer holidays and where you can treat the kids to a nice meal without breaking the bank? ...
West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board are currently creating a new Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion [EDI] plan for health and care services across West Yorkshire. The boards hope that this will help ...
West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue offer a range of interventions that youth groups can access including short talks on the consequences of arson, road safety awareness, the impact of anti social behavi ...
The National Youth Agency (NYA) has launched an "Art of Youth Work" campaign in preparation for this year's Youth Work Week, taking place 4-8th November. They are asking for youth groups to create a p ...
Youth Work Practice Training Opportunities exist across our region, with a network of training providers, based in each sub-region local to you. Contact theunit@youthworkunit.com to learn more. here i ...
Do you work with young people aged between 18 - 25 in West Yorkshire? If the answer is yes, The University of Leeds would like to hear from you. They are working in collaboration with the West Yorkshi ...
New members to the network, The Visionaries, have recently launched Wild & Well and are looking for partners across the UK to help build a new green social prescribing infrastructure that enables ...
NCS Trust has partnered with StreetGames and the Social Prescribing Youth Network (SPYN) and researchers at University College London (UCL) to build evidence on the impact of youth sector provision on ...
Youth Focus North East are able to facilitate Visual Awareness Training on behalf of the Royal Society of Blind Children. Due to demand for this training they now have two pathways available. Pathway ...
West Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership are providing support and training for those supporting children and young people with asthma. Their tier 1 training is suitable and available to youth worke ...
CAST helps charities and social impact organisations to make the fullest use of digital technology, in order to be as responsive and resilient as possible. They have a new AI resources hub that which ...
#GetInvolved sessions are opportunities for young people to learn the basics of politics – from canvassing to campaigning with real hands-on experience and more. You can sign up to the Patchwork Found ...
Give an X is a youth-led, non-partisan youth voter registration campaign designed to get every single young person registered to vote and into polling booths for the next election. A head of the upcom ...
NCS Trust has commissioned a new partnership and research project – YES (Youth sector Enabling Social Prescribing) – to address the growing mental health emergency among young people. NCS Trust has pa ...
Ygam a charity working to prevent children and young people from experiencing gaming and gambling harms through awareness raising, education and research, are offering fully funded workshops, assured ...
Are hosting a webinar briefing for youth organisations on the General Election on Wednesday 5th June at 1-2pm. This briefing call will cover: What happens next and some key dates for your diary. What ...
not sure how to register - here is a guide from PYL #NoVoteNoVoice Voter ID and Registration Resource Pack (partnershipforyounglondon.org.uk) Deadline to apply for a postal vote is Wednesday 19th Jun ...
Child Safety Week is the Child Accident Prevention Trust’s annual community education campaign, acting as a catalyst for thousands of safety conversations and activities UK-wide. We help families buil ...
Volunteers' Week celebrates the amazing contributions volunteers make to communities across the UK. The celebration starts on the first Monday in June every year. It’s a chance to recognise, celebrat ...
Community RePaint is a nationwide paint reuse project, helping local groups and charities refresh shared spaces and create colourful murals for the community. Learn more about how you can get involved ...
Supporting young people to engage in elections - A shared hub of resources, training opportunities and events, created by a partnership of non-partisan organisations working on democracy, education an ...
The Government has set out its plans for a mandatory duty in England to report known or suspected child sexual abuse . What is the proposed duty? The duty to report child sex offences intends to make ...
Ofsted want to hear from children of primary and secondary school age (up to 18 years old) and adults, re what you think and how we can do our job better. Ofsted - Children's Consultation (smartsurvey ...
Health & Wellbeing Officer Hours 35hours Yorkshire Term 9 months Salary £16,424.94 (9months) Applications - contact staffenquiries@flyingfutures.org for an informal discussion about the role, and ...
NCS Mentor - 2024 NCS Mentor Job Description NCS Workshop Facilitator - 2024 NCS Workshop Facilitator Job Description HAF Activity Leader - 2024 HAF Activity Leader Job Description Interested in apply ...
On Thursday 27th June the YWU will be hosting two networking events for HAF commissioners and providers. Creating a space for open discussion led by participants to ask those questions, share experien ...
2024 marks the 10th anniversary of the Points of Light award. Since April 2014, over 2,300 people have been named ‘Points of Light’, highlighting an array of innovative volunteering; from fundraising ...
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has recently launched the next phase of the Better Health - Every Mind Matters campaign. Targeted at 16 - 24 year olds, one of the most at risk audience gro ...
SAYiTare now running a monthly cycle of six different online LGBTQ+ training courses. These half day sessions are suitable for all organisations wanting to ensure their services are LGBTQ+ friendly. L ...
How do I explain the Holocaust young people when they are reading online conspiracy theories? How do I appropriately link their learning to the present day when they are asking questions about Israel ...
The Care to Go Higher online course has been designed by Go Higher West Yorkshire with the National Youth Agency to promote access to Higher Education for young people leaving the care system. Deliver ...
A collection of free and high-quality training to help you and your board become and be an effective trustee. ...
Become have co-produced with care experienced young people a manifesto and are asking young people to add their signatures to our Open Letter, which is addressed to the next UK government- whoever tha ...
The West Yorkshire Violence Reduction Partnership is looking for community members interested in the role faith and belief plays in reducing serious violence to join our working groups. This is an exc ...
Spark conversation in your community WHY BECOME A SCREENING HOST? Film changes lives and broaden perspectives. We work with educators, charities, businesses, and community organizations so they can sp ...
https://www.soundproofbox.org - have another free performance in Bradford. Tickets are free for this event as we have been funded by the lottery community fund to deliver these across West Yorkshire ...
A consortium led by Coram and the Institute of Family Therapy (IFT) , has been commissioned to lead the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) and Department for Education (DfE) ...
Wednesday 10 April - Mental Health Series: Reflective Practice and Supervision Wednesday 24 May - Signs and symptoms of common mental health difficulties Wednesday 9 October - Looking at attachment an ...
Hill Skills course for community group leaders working with our under-represented groups or people who identify as belonging to one of the below groups. Groups who are currently under-represented in o ...
I am recruiting for my doctoral study which aims to understand the use of flexibility and crip time in youth work practices when working with disabled young people. This is a piece of action research ...
training that youth work and schools can do to develop their awareness of long term conditions in children and young people. Asthma Supporting Children's Health and Young People with Asthma (education ...
The NYA is running a series of employer engagement sessions to gather views on the Level 3 Diploma in Youth Work Practice. The sessions will provide an update on the reforms, a space to ask question ...
Stem4 has been awarded a contract by Ofcom, to offer media literacy training for those working in healthcare, social care and the youth sector so that they can better support young people in getting t ...
ACAS run training courses, conferences and networking events, covering essential HR and employment law topics, as well as business and management skill development. Delivered both online and in-person ...
Youth Focus North East facilitates this training on behalf of the Royal Society of Blind Children, and it is focused around how to work with young people with visual impairments. This fully funded tra ...
Youth Justice Board has commissioned Revolving Doors to produce a report identifying examples of good practice tackling racial disparity in youth justice. We are seeking case studies of successful ini ...
Events & training notices
Here at the YWU we provide several events from our youth workers networks to our annual conference. We provide training in all aspects of youth work and beyond many are delivered specifically for individual organisations, though occasionally we do offer open courses for anyone to enrol.
More information about training the YWU can provide can be found here for more information contact the team on theunit@youthworkunit.com
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Training is a vital resource for supporting and developing the youth work sector workforce including volunteers. It promotes retention, progression and of course the best possible experience for young people.