Funders & Research Pledges

IVAR is an independent charity that works closely with people and organisations striving for social change. We pledge to support youth social action by: Sharing insights from the evaluation of the National Youth Social Action Fund, illustrating how communities can support young people to do good Making relevant research publicly available to funders and small voluntary organisations supporting youth social action

Virgin Money Foundation pledge to: Be an ambassador for the #iWill campaign and raise awareness of the benefits of youth social action. Work with other funders and partners to promote high quality youth social action opportunities, particularly across the North East of England and look to break down some of the financial and cultural barriers that prevent some young people from taking part. Highlight the importance of young people having a voice in the design and delivery of any investment in youth social action.

The National Lottery Community Fund pledge to:  Support the #iwill campaign’s objectives by investing £20million into the #iwill Fund to develop meaningful youth social action opportunities that enable young people to take the lead across England  Utilise the opportunity provided through the #iwill Fund Learning Hub, as well as our wider learning and evaluation work, to contribute to discussion and debate about the development of high quality social action experiences.  Ensure learning from #iwill Fund informs The National Lottery Community Fund’s approach to supporting youth social action across the UK Work with other funders to develop the work in this area by [...]

Aimia’s Data Philanthropy programme is a skills-based volunteering initiative at Aimia. Each year we pair analysts with charities to help them use their data to drive improvements in their operations, fundraising and recruiting. For the #Iwill project we used open source data and statistical software to create a maps of schools that could benefit from social action. This analysis and mapping will help Youth Social Action (YSA) charities understand and identify potential new schools where YSA could have a positive benefit.   Aimia analysts will continue to support the #iwill campaign throughout 2017 by helping the Step up to Serve team measure and visualise the improvement [...]