The Young Barnet Foundation (YBF) is a membership movement set up to help grow activities and services for our children and young people.  We believe the children and young people need safe space to grow and develop into resilient adults.  For this, all children and young people need opportunities for learning and fun, beyond family and formal education, building strong trusted relationships with adults and their peers; leading to broadened networks, increased confidence and valuable life skills. 

We are part of the Young Peoples Foundation (YPF) model, working alongside newly formed Foundations in other London Boroughs and across the country; exciting times. With each foundation offering a new approach to supporting the children and young people’s (CYP) voluntary sector (VCS), there is a chance for us all to help grow youth service delivery and turn the tide in its decline. 

The Charity has 4 key objectives;

Space2Grow – Raising funds for and administering a small grants Fund.

Building Partnerships, Promotion and Collaboration – Oversee consortium working with both the sector and business to develop the offer and reach for the CYP in the Borough.  Bringing together the sector to bid for and provide larger projects.

Impact Monitoring and Evaluation – Provide and be the management of a M&E platform to help CYP groups and ourselves collect relevant local data to assist with the funding bids and justification for eh work of the VCS in Barnet.  To help tell the story.

Develop a local venue platform  Working with John Lyon’s Charity to provide a platform linking venues and spaces with charities and community groups requiring space.