The Mohn Westlake Foundation is providing funding for The Young Foundation to offer opportunities to young people to be trained as peer researchers.

Peer research is a participatory research method in which people with lived experience of the issues being studied take part in directing and conducting the research.

The Mohn Westlake Foundation’s grant money will be used to support up to thirty young people to be trained as peer researchers. The scheme provides a valuable opportunity for a cohort of disadvantaged young people to gain access to employment. The project seeks to help young people build confidence, skills and agency not only in the world of work, but in the realm of social and civic action.

The Young Foundation’s programmes cover a range of themes including place-based work, health and well-being, inequality and support for young people, which all ladder up to its overarching mission to deliver better connected and more sustainable communities across the UK. 

To learn more about this project, please visit the grantees website: www.youngfoundation.org