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Is influencing policy change a core part of your work? Should it be?

It could have been risky, gathering about 40 our partners - many of them small, local charities working directly with young people - to discuss policy and social change, and our and their roles in…
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Welcoming our new Chair and a new trustee to Blagrave!

The Blagrave Trust is delighted to welcome Peter Babudu as Chair and Segun Olowookere, to our Board. Peter is currently Head of Evidence at the Youth Endowment Fund – a fund dedicated to preventing youth…
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The Listening Fund: do we hear that it is time for change?

Last week, the partners in The Listening Fund came together to try and answer one question: how we can better listen to young people so that they are empowered to improve the circumstances, organisations and…
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Why We Must Involve Young People In Decision-Making

From the Youth Strikes 4 Climate movement, to the March for Our Lives and Global March against child labour, student-led, youth movements provide a powerful message that their future is too important to be entrusted to adults who have failed…
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New Job, new start!

Philippa Knott, The Blagrave Trust's new policy manager, shares her thoughts on her new role. Reflections on three months in post at Blagrave Trust. Looking ahead to the next year. I love my new job!…
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