Youth Futures Partnership works with organisations that want to create stronger opportunities for young people, respond to local harm or disengagement, and test practical prevention approaches. We can help shape a response around the place, people and outcomes you are trying to influence.
Youth Futures can work across organisational boundaries because the issues affecting young people rarely belong neatly to one service.
Youth services, public health, community safety, early help, regeneration and place-based prevention.
Targeted engagement, enrichment, careers, transition, prevention and alternative approaches for particular cohorts.
Place-based interventions around antisocial behaviour, exploitation, violence, substance harm and community confidence.
Positive youth engagement, estate-based provision and programmes designed around specific neighbourhood needs.
Early intervention around alcohol, vaping and other behaviours where engaging prevention is needed alongside information.
Skills outreach, social value programmes, local talent pipelines and meaningful youth engagement.
Fund or jointly deliver targeted pilots that address an identified gap in opportunity or prevention.
Bring multiple funders and agencies together around a shared neighbourhood or population outcome.
Deploy themed mobile hubs such as esports, construction, creative, salon or technology provision into communities and targeted locations.
Develop a targeted response around a location experiencing repeated concerns, combining local insight, youth engagement and practical activity.
Design provision for a defined group of young people around engagement, prevention, skills, confidence or progression.
Engage young people directly to understand local experience and help shape services, places, programmes or investment.
Combine practical tasters, employers, Career Passport evidence, mentoring and routes into further training or work.
Co-design and test a new youth engagement or prevention model, with agreed measures and learning built in from the start.
The first conversation should establish what you are trying to achieve. From there, Youth Futures can develop a proportionate proposal.
Tell us about the location, cohort, concern, opportunity gap and intended outcome.
Review available insight, existing provision and the views of relevant partners and young people.
Agree the delivery model, safeguarding, partners, timescale, progression and measures.
Mobilise the programme with clear ownership, communications and operational arrangements.
Report what happened, what was learned and what should be continued, changed or scaled.
These are illustrative models rather than fixed commercial packages. Scope, duration and cost would depend on the programme.
A defined activity or intervention for a specific group, school, location or outcome.
A co-designed intervention that combines insight, youth voice, delivery, partners and evaluation.
A longer-term approach bringing multiple interventions and partners together around a community or shared outcome.
Youth Futures wants to make commissioning straightforward enough to support creative approaches while still providing the governance, safeguarding, clarity and evidence public and charitable funding requires.
A formal proposal should set out exactly what is being commissioned rather than relying on attractive concepts.
Clear safeguarding arrangements, safer recruitment and escalation routes appropriate to each programme.
Activity, venue, equipment and mobile-delivery risks assessed and managed proportionately.
Defined purposes for personal data, appropriate controls and clear information-sharing arrangements.
Agreed outputs and outcomes, transparent reporting and no pretending correlation automatically proves causation.
Send us the place, group or outcome you're thinking about. We can explore whether Youth Futures is the right fit and what a proportionate pilot or programme might look like.