BLOG🚰 | Last month's water outage in Kent left thousands without safe drinking water for 13 days. Our Director of Sustainability and Just Transition, Emily Morrison, wrote about her experience on the ground 👇 https://bit.ly/4pgoS5a

🌟 Happy New Year from The Young Foundation! 🌟 As we welcome 2026, we take a moment to reflect on the valuable lessons learned in 2025. Explore our reflections and insights from the past year 👇 https://bit.ly/4pUbrcg

Explore this briefing paper, co-authored by Emily Morrison, our Director of Sustainability and Just Transition here at The Young Foundation, and Impact Lead at the JUST Centre, and Sherilyn MacGregor, Professor of Environmental Politics at @manchester.ac.uk, and Director of the JUST Centre.

Winter update: insights, impact, and a new CEO In our latest newsletter, we’re reflecting on the year so far, while looking ahead to what’s next. Read the newsletter 👇 bit.ly/3YrS12B

The Community Advisory Panel helped shape #CiviCon25 with insight, lived experience and values-driven collaboration. Their new co-authored feature reflects on the process and the learnings shaping more inclusive civic university practice. Read it here 👉https://bit.ly/44lgVUM

Great to see our GoZero Index shared by @environmentjournal.bsky.social - find out how 'ready' your area is for the transition to net zero, and share the new tool with your MP 👇 bit.ly/4atEkYb

📣 Interested in postgrad research, university funding, or community partnerships? Join us with @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social to explore how universities can step beyond traditional roles and engage with their communities to offer inspiration and provocation. Book here👉https://bit.ly/4oxTQWc

NEWS🚀| Proud to announce our continued role as national partner with the #PeerActionCollective as four new teams join the project to deliver youth-led research and social action addressing violence affecting young people. Find out more 👉 bit.ly/4pgDsdV

What an evening! Together with the #PeerActionCollective, we were honoured to attend the MRS Awards as nominees for the prestigious President’s Medal award. Huge congratulations to our fellow nominees. Read the award nominated report here 👉 bit.ly/3Y02Ubq

Big news! 🎉 Announcing our new CEO @parlysue.bsky.social. More at bit.ly/3M1O8yn

What does it really take to build stronger, more connected communities? Earlier this month, the All Together Now conference marked the official launch of @c4research.bsky.social, hosted in partnership with @localtrust.org.uk. See the highlights 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=REez...

REPORT 📈 | Meaningful engagement between students and local communities - five case studies of student community engagement practices across England Read the report 👇 bit.ly/44jOpCU

REPORT 📈 | Purpose through data: a toolkit and resource that supports universities with equitable and accessible, data-informed decision-making 👇 bit.ly/4pjDa5r

OPINION 💭 | 'We need more than new skills and social mobility for a greener future; we need fairness’ Julie McLaren asks how we can ensure the UK's skills agenda is both 'green' and genuinely fair, in Business Green 👇 bit.ly/4plEGnx

🗓️In December we'll be a part of Reimagining Research, an online event hosted by @britsciassoc.bsky.social 📢 Hear from those working with communities, like the Rural Durham Community Research Network, and explore ideas of how this work can shape future research to collaboratively address challenges.

Our Senior Innovation Practitioner, Gary Fawdrey is currently on 'safari' in Scotland, touring Moray to meet local people, to better understand the issues they face and explore potential research opportunities that matter to them.⛰️💡

We're working with the @ukri.org funded #CommunityResearchNetworks supporting them to engage their local communities across the UK to drive research and innovation in their areas.🔍

🌍 Will COP, hosted in Brazil this year, see bold commitments that drive a just transition to net zero? People and communities must be at the heart of climate action, so no one is left behind on the journey to a sustainable future. See our recent research and thinking in this space 👇 bit.ly/3WGdsfp

WORKSHOP 💻 | Help shape a dashboard supporting universities to take a more data-driven approach to creating positive civic impact Join us for the final user-testing workshop: bit.ly/4nFQlwd

🧑‍🎓 Join the last Introduction to peer research training of the year! There are still a few spots left for this highly practical and engaging online training on Wednesday 19 November. Find out more: bit.ly/4qHTQVQ

A fantastic report recently shared at CiviCon by Jack Layton and Al Mathers highlighting the power of university green spaces to be realised as focal points for mental health and wellbeing and community cohesion. 🌳 Find out more 👉 http://bit.ly/3Lf8XWw

Is your neighbourhood benefitting from net zero? Share our interactive map with your MP to deliver change on your doorstep The GoZero Index provides vital insight into how national and regional policy can better reflect local realities. bit.ly/47fzgV9

NEWS 🗺️ | GoZero Index launches – a groundbreaking new tool mapping how ready places across England are for the transition to a fair, green future. Explore your area 👇 https://bit.ly/4qpfUo5

OPINION 💭 | Houses ≠ communities. 🚧 New housing without social infrastructure is leaving people isolated. It’s time to invest in public joy – not just buildings. Our Place Research and Impact Manager Dr Jack Layton writes for Estates Gazette 👇 http://bit.ly/4ho4HzT

As the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill makes its way through Parliament, @right-here.org is calling for a deeper form of devolution that gives communities more power and rights to create real change – from the ground up. Watch and share the new campaign film 👇

📢 At today's AVM Conference, our Research Director Siân Whyte notes the changing nature of volunteering and increased appetite for new models of community power. "Our strategy is about the power of participation and welcoming a new social contract.” bit.ly/4enrWJa

EVENT 🌍 | Building practice for a JUST future Last chance to register to join us next week to discover opportunities for participation in the new Centre for Joined Up Sustainability Transformations (JUST) 👇 https://bit.ly/3JN1UDV

Today, The @britishacademy.bsky.social and Nuffield Foundation's Understanding Communities programme publishes its final report. Launched in 2022, this programme has worked to inform policy and practice on how communities can improve social wellbeing across the UK 👇 bit.ly/4nZy1Pi

🧵 1/3 🚨 Interested in building a just, sustainable future? Join the @manchester.ac.uk @justcentre.bsky.social & @theyoungfdn.bsky.social webinar on Oct 7! 🌍✨ Explore the new Practice-Builders Network mobilising changemakers across sectors. 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/building-p...

🚀 EVENT | Hive Minds: Exploring Participatory Research Join us on Tuesday 4 November in Belfast with RF Associates for a collaborative session exploring the power of a participatory approach in research. 🔗Find out more and register your interest here: bit.ly/42jtter

WE'RE HIRING! Are you a Senior Researcher with strong quantitative, statistical and data analysis skills? We're looking for a dynamic team-player to join our busy and friendly team. Find out more and apply 👇 bit.ly/42ij0zV

Brilliant to see Leonie Taylor, Siân Whyte and Laetitia Lucy share insights in @thetcpa.bsky.social's latest journal, reflecting on why community participation must be at the heart of development - and setting out key factors for success. More 👇 bit.ly/42hADzI

The New Towns Taskforce has revealed that Thamesmead is one of 12 recommended New Town sites. In this community-led planning edition of Town & Country Planning journal, colleagues from @theyoungfdn.bsky.social discuss how Thamesmead residents are shaping development. www.tcpa.org.uk/sample-journ...

We cannot make changes about young people, without them and this report from the Peer Action Collective highlights the value of youth voice! 💪 Explore key findings and learnings from two years of work across multiple PAC teams here: bit.ly/47ZK8Hs

📢Our webinar is live! Opening today’s event, our Senior Research Manager Phil Mullen introduced our new report from the #PeerActionCollective programme, working with young people across England and Wales to tackle violence affecting young people. 🧵

REPORT LAUNCH 📢|A call to tackle violence affecting young people, with young people Published with @youthendowmentfund.org.uk @coopukreal.bsky.social and #iWill (@tnlcommunityfund.org.uk, @dcmsgovuk.bsky.social) are key findings from research with over 5,100 young people! Read here👉 bit.ly/47ZK8Hs

IMPACT STORY 📈 | Tackling inequality through physical activity in Cornwall Explore the impact of our partnership with Active Cornwall, developing a 10-year plan to increase residents’ physical activity, underpinned by evidence and guided by the experiences of local people. More: bit.ly/46p6EqO

CASE STUDY 🥁 | From African drumming to library sessions: how Hackney’s creative approach is getting communities fit for the future Jem Hai shares one council's success increasing health, happiness, and physical activity among residents. @hackneycouncil.bsky.social bit.ly/4pzgZsY

REPORT LAUNCH 🚀 Today, we publish two reports with @hackneycouncil.bsky.social @sportengland.bsky.social and others, sharing community-driven change in East London. Over eight years, this collaboration worked to reduce local inequalities linked to health and inactivity. Read more at bit.ly/4nDE8IP

EVENT 🌍 | Building practice for a JUST future Join us to discover opportunities for participation in the new @justcentre.bsky.social - for those in policy or practice who are committed to justice and change. bit.ly/3JN1UDV

🌿 What green skills and capabilities do we need for a ‘just’ transition? Our Director of Just Transition @juliemclaren.bsky.social tackles this question with @sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social, Lydia Fairhurst Marshall, Joe Crolla, and Rob Wilson at today’s Social Mobility Commission Symposium 1/2

After eight inspiring years, today we say a fond farewell to our CEO, @helengou.bsky.social. Helen's parting blog embodies her characteristic ambition and drive - and her abiding belief that social change must be "participatory, people-focused, and rooted in place" 👏 👏 👏 bit.ly/42aCwhN

NEWS 🗞️ | Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy, @metecoban92.bsky.social, visits Thamesmead to hear lessons of community involvement in placemaking, as new report launches More 👇 bit.ly/466NHsE

"I’ve grown increasingly frustrated making the case for why investment in communities – and building trust within them – is essential to solving political, social, environmental and economic challenges" @helengou.bsky.social @theyoungfdn.bsky.social

OPINION 💭 | Outgoing CEO @helengou.bsky.social reflects on 17 years spent in the sector. Writing for Third Sector, she shares hopes for how our institutions might work together differently in the future, and reimagine what cross-sector participation can look like. bit.ly/3IaRIV2

Last week Deputy Mayor @metecoban92.bsky.social visited Thamesmead to see the incredible transformation achieved with our partners, Peabody, Groundwork and @theyoungfdn.bsky.social, alongside the local community — turning the area into a vibrant, greener, and healthier neighbourhood.

Event 🌍 | Building practice for a JUST future Join us to explore opportunities to participate in the new @justcentre.bsky.social, tackling social, political and environmental challenges, to create a just, sustainable future 👇 bit.ly/3JN1UDV

With the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill at second reading today, our Chair of Trustees @kerstenengland.bsky.social CBE explores what it means for local councils and the future of democracy in Britain. Read the blog: bit.ly/3I2HFkS

Brilliant community-led ideas shouldn’t end up in a museum. As MPs debate the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, Hannah Sloggett shows why @right-here.org is calling for real power to be handed to communities. Read more in The MJ: bit.ly/41wYlHQ

In the wake of more news of the loss of community assets, we're reflecting on the importance of social infrastructure in supporting social connections, building stronger communities, and mitigating loneliness. News via BBC: bit.ly/4n0iT3J More reflections from Dr Jack Layton: bit.ly/4mxxZxH