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‘What has helped Positive Futures to set the pace amongst youth oriented social inclusion programmes is its consistent and ongoing commitment to being informed by a robust research and evidence base.’
Professor Tim Crabbe of Substance
The 2007 Annual Positive Futures Monitoring and Evaluation Report, Putting the Pieces Together?, reveals that engaging young people in activities they enjoy is a successful catalyst to encourage long term participation and opens up new pathways into achieving, education, volunteering and employment.
The report also reveals...
In September 2007, Andy Burnham MP, the Secretary for State for Culture, Media and Sport launched the findings of the first annual Kickz report written by Substance.
Key statistics from the first report (which covers the period 2006/07) include:
* The programme target to engage 4,000 young people was exceeded as 7,000 were...
The report focuses on one leading example the Get Hooked on Fishing Charitable Trust. Angling, says the report, has most to offer when a developmental approach, such as that in the GHOF scheme, is placed at the heart of their program of teaching young people to fish.
In 2008 Substance was commissioned by dreamwall, a Southampton-based charity working with vulnerable young people experiencing inequality or disadvantage, to report upon its Time Out programme.
Time Out is delivered by dreamwall (in partnership with Southampton City Council) and focuses on providing residential-based...
Professor Tim Crabbe co-authored a national survey of 1,250 young people that shows they more activities are important and that Positive Futures’ sport and art activities are helping them control their drinking. The survey also shows that drinking to get drunk is starting younger with serious consequences to health...
The report aims to enable a clearer understanding of the issues relating to youth-crime, particularly knife, gun and gang related violence and to identify the best ways to mobilise sport’s potential to address these issues.
Daly Thompson supported the recommendations through a ‘Laureus – Breaking the...