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Youth-Led Creativity 2024: 10 organisations awarded funding
We're excited to announce the 10 organisations awarded Youth-Led Creativity funding, totalling £1.1m. Organisations will also be supported through a Learning Programme, which will run alongside the funding, and will be co-designed with them and Esmée's Involving Young People Collective.
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Youth-Led Creativity 2024: update
An update on our Youth-Led Creativity funding, which launched earlier this year. In it, we share more about the design of the fund, our approach to assessing applications and what’s next.
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Working towards A Fairer Future: reflections so far
Catherine Hillis, Director of A Fairer Future at Esmée, shares her reflections on her first year leading the team to deliver the first full year of our new A Fairer Future strategy and how the wider context is shaping our work.
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Using social investment to secure a fairer future
Tom Colborne, Esmée’s Social Investment Portfolio Manager, writes about our social investment plans to support in a fairer future. This is part of a series of blogs on how our social investment strategy will contribute to Esmée’s mission.
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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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Our response to the draft Children’s Social Care National Framework
Janet Grauberg, Esmée’s learning partner for our Leaving Care Learning Programme, shares her reflections on the Government’s draft Children’s Social Care Framework and Dashboard, and how we and organisations we work with, have responded.
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Government consults on its plan for children's social care reform in England
Read a summary of the Government's response to the recommendations of the Independent Review of Children's Social Care in England, along with their plan for children's social care reform.
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A Fairer Future: updated guidance and Q&A webinars
We reopen to applications in A Fairer Future on 12 October 2022. See our updated guidance on how to apply and watch our Q&A webinars about the new strategy.
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Children and young people's rights Q&A
Watch our Q&A webinar on our priority for Children and young people's rights. We also answer more questions that we didn't get to during the webinar.
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