Impact | PYL

Our Impact 2021-2024

Young Londoners working across 6 advisory boards

200+

Peer Researchers

recruited and trained

3000+

Practitioners attended training or events

5000+

Young people participated in research

Policy Impact

Pan-London Children in Care Council

50% reduction on London Buses agreed by Sadiq Khan for all care leavers.
Free Prescriptions for all eligible care leavers with NHS London.
Focused support for care leavers being developed Universities across London.

Young Londoners' Research Programme

Trained nine organisations and 45 young people in peer research.
Over 500 young Londoners engaged across all research projects.
Feedback used to shape GLA commissioning programmes.

Merton Council
Peer Research

Partnered with London Borough of Merton.
7 peer researchers trained and 2073 young residents participated in the study.
Children and Young People’s Partnership Board created a plan of action on findings.

Know Your Roots

Over 40 young people were engaged in focus groups and creative workshops to explore the heritage and hair.
Over 20 art pieces created by young people.
The resources are now part of London’s Living History with the London Metropolitan Archives.

Housing Associations Young Researchers

6 young people trained as peer researchers.
Recommendations shared with National Federation Policy Group.
Partnership facilitated with Goldsmith University focused on youth voice and leadership in housing.

Young Londoners' Manifesto 2024

Created with 100 young Londoners at City Hall.
Endorsed by over 120 organisations across London.
All candidates provided Manifesto's asks.
Young people on ITV News and Times Radio for the election.

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London Museum
Peer Research

Partnered with London Museum across two peer research projects.
15 young Londoners trained, over 4000 young Londoners participated in the study.
Findings shaped London Museum's future programming.

The National House Project Evaluation

Partnered with National House Project on peer evaluations.
40 peer researchers trained, over 200 young people in over 14 House Projects participated.
Recommendations taken up and implemented across all House Projects.

Authoring Our
Own Stories

20 young people trained in peer research
Data on feedback shared at Jack Petchey Foundation, National Lotteries Community Fund to inform future funding
Data used to shape training for 45 youth workers with London Youth

Youth Social Action

7 young people trained in peer research.
Data captured from formal and informal education settings used to shape the GLA Youth Social Action programmes.
Series of videos highlight the key findings created and shared with the GLA and wider sector.

Impactful Partnerships

We have worked with the Greater London Authority (GLA) to ensure that young people's voices inform the funding and programmes coming out of City Hall.

Partnership for Young London was commissioned by the GLA to deliver the Young Londoners' Research Programme. We trained and supported nine youth groups from across London to design and conduct their own peer research into the barriers accessing youth services. City Hall hosted the launch of the key findings and recommendations from all groups.

Whether through the Young Londoners' Research Programme, or research like Mapping Young London, we make sure we work closely with the GLA to ensure that they are informed of what young Londoners are telling us.

Greater London Authority

Partership for Young London is the Regional Youth Unit for London, and we work collectively with the eight other Youth Units across England.

We are part of the Network of Regional Youth Units, which aims to both support and strengthen the capacity of the youth sector, sharing and promoting best practice. We collaborate with a range of national and regional organisations to develop new initiatives and joint partnerships for the benefit of youth work and young people.

We also deliver projects that work across the Regional Youth Units, such as Authoring Our Own Stories, to ensure that we are capturing a diverse range of young people's views from across the country.

Regional Youth Units

We have worked with a range of healthcare sector partners, such as the NHS, to ensure that services are improved for young people.

Through the Transformation Partners Programme for London, we have co-produced resources with Good Thinking and the Digital Ambassadors on young people’s emotional well-being, delivered the Listening Project for young people from minoritised communities, and supported care experienced young people’s engagement with health services on mental health.

Young people have taken part in workshops and planning sessions on rights in health care, presented at workforce development sessions and hosted panels on areas such as asthma.

National Health Service

We work closely with Housing Associations, to ensure that young residents can have a voice in the places that they live, know their rights, and inform strategy.

Through our Youth Voice in Housing Programme, in partnership with Clarion Futures, The Hyde Group and MTVH, we have conduced peer research into how youth leadership can be developed across Housing Strategy and Policy.

This group have designed and facilitated interviews with key strategic leads across the Housing Sector including CEOs, Regeneration Leads and Customer Voice Leads to assess where young people’s views, insight and leadership can inform strategy and policy.

Housing Associations

As London's Regional Youth Unit, our work is centered on working collaboratively with London's youth sector to provide support, training, and create networks and partnerships.

We connect the sector, such as through the Young Londoners' Coalition, co-chaired with London Youth, a network of infrastructure voices in the statutory and voluntary youth sector across London.

This network includes funders, London Councils, the GLA, the NHS, Local Authority Leads, and youth infrastructure groups. The coalition focuses on workforce development, data and insight, and influencing policy and practice.

London's Youth Sector

Events, training, and networks

We support London's youth sector through free training and events all year round, on the topics that they tell us they want to learn about. In the past three years, we have seen over 3000 people who work in the youth sector attend training, on a range of topics.