The Involving Young People Collective work closely with Esmée Fairbairn Foundation by helping to design and test ways to involve young people more directly with our work, and improve our funding practice.
Involving Young People Collective
Involving Young People Collective
Meet our Involving Young People Collective
Esmée's Involving Young People Collective is a group of young people, connected by their drive for social change. Learn more about the consultants that make up the Collective including what gives them passion and what gives them rage.
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How we work with the Involving Young People Collective
Catherine Hillis, Esmée’s children and young people lead outlines how we’re working with the Involving Young People Collective to improve our practice and support for young people.
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Why Esmée started involving young people in our work
We want to do better at listening to and involving young people more directly with our work so we're working with the Involving Young People Collective to help us design and test ways in which we can do this.
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Projects
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Youth-Led Creativity funding
We're excited to share our plans for our Youth-Led Creativity funding. Co-designed with Esmée's Involving Young People Collective, we reopen to applications from 14 February.
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Values for co-production between Young People + Organisations
Esmée's Involving Young People Collective share 10 values for co-production between young people and organisations. In this blog, Thalia and Betty, from the Collective, share how the work developed as well as their hopes that it will help to start conversations on best practice.
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Addressing the lack of diversity in the environment sector
We're pleased to share a new report from our Involving Young People Collective summarising the discussions at a hackathon on addressing the lack of diversity in the environment sector. We also share our reflections on what we learned and our next steps for making progress on this.
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22 May 2024Esmée and the Involving Young People Collective, Year 3
To help us reflect on how Esmée and the Involving Young People Collective are working together, staff and young consultants complete an annual satisfaction survey, based on the 10 values for co-production with young people.
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Youth-led creativity Fund Q&A: 7 February
Watch a Q&A webinar about our Youth-Led Creativity funding, which opens to applications on 14 February.
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Youth-Led Creativity funding
We're excited to share our plans for our Youth-Led Creativity funding. Co-designed with Esmée's Involving Young People Collective, we reopen to applications from 14 February.
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Changing how we fund youth-led culture and creativity
We are changing how we fund youth-led culture and creativity and plan to share our plans for a new funding programme in the New Year. To prepare, we will close to applications towards youth-led culture and creativity at 5pm on 10 November 2023.
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Working together: Esmée and the Involving Young People Collective
To help us reflect on the successes and challenges of Esmée's working relationship with the Involving Young People Collective, staff and Collective members completed a Satisfaction Survey. Read a summary of feedback received and the Collective's recommendations for improvement.
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How we work with the Involving Young People Collective
Catherine Hillis, Esmée’s children and young people lead outlines how we’re working with the Involving Young People Collective to improve our practice and support for young people.
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Values for co-production between Young People + Organisations
Esmée's Involving Young People Collective share 10 values for co-production between young people and organisations. In this blog, Thalia and Betty, from the Collective, share how the work developed as well as their hopes that it will help to start conversations on best practice.
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Introducing our Involving Young People Collective’s newest change-makers
Kimberly Garande writes about her experience so far since joining Esmée’s Involving Young People Collective, and we also hear from the three other new young change-makers who have joined.
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Esmée's hackathon and me: a young environmentalist’s look into how change is made
Following a hackathon to address the lack of diversity in the environment sector, Hemlata Pant, a Youth Representative for Action for Conservation, writes about the experience.
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Addressing the lack of diversity in the environment sector
We're pleased to share a new report from our Involving Young People Collective summarising the discussions at a hackathon on addressing the lack of diversity in the environment sector. We also share our reflections on what we learned and our next steps for making progress on this.
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£1.8m Reinvent Performing Arts funding awarded to 40 arts organisations
We're excited to announce 40 new grants worth £1.8m, which we have made through Reinvent Performing Arts funding. This one-off funding is part of our response to the pandemic and provides additional support to some of our grantees as they re-open and lockdown eases.
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Challenging conventions for a diverse and equitable environmental space
In April, over 50 individuals representing a range of organisations came together to participate in a Hackathon seeking to address the lack of diversity in the environmental sector.In this blog, IYPC member Daniel Seifu shares his reflections from the event.
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Reflections on working with Esmée to involve young people
Thalia Papanicolaou and Samuel Zubair from our Involving Young People Collective reflect on their time so far at Esmée including the opportunities for leadership and how they're making a real difference to how Esmée works already.
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