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Brook is delighted to have received a grant from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation to focus on outcomes and provide a strong evidence base for what works to improve young people’s sexual health and wellbeing.
The grant of £176,820 over two years will be used for the Prove it project, which focuses specifically on proving the effectiveness of Brook’s education and personal development programmes.
The grant funding will contribute towards core and project costs of Brook’s programmatic step-change. The project will scale up successful small scale activities to reach more young people, support internal acceleration of innovative programmes and practice, and help Brook to secure new funding for our work with young people.
This will be done by identifying good practice throughout the organisation that is being implemented locally in delivering holistic support to young people, and scale it up to a national level, while also setting out in concrete terms the impact of Brook’s pioneering and innovative work with young people.
There will be training and development for staff and volunteers at Brook to help them to design, develop, evaluate and share evidence of their outcomes and impact for young people.
Brook has 50 years of experience of working with young people, delivering innovative models of service delivery and activities. With this support from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, we can prove what works so we can do more of it and increase our impact for the benefit of all the young people we work with.
Lisa Bartlett, Brook’s Head of Innovation said:
“We’re delighted that the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation has given us this grant. Brook’s staff and volunteers work hard every day to make a real difference to the lives of young people, and it’s great to know that with this funding we will be able to evidence and build on their great work for the benefit if even more young people.
“The grant also builds on the establishment of a new data and impact team within Brook, to help us continually improve the data we collect and how we use it most effectively to understand what works, why and how, so we can make the biggest difference we can.”
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Notes to editors
Brook believes that young people should have access to great sexual health services and wellbeing support.
Brook provides free and confidential sexual health information, contraception, pregnancy testing, advice and counselling, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections and education programmes, reaching nearly 235,000 young people nationwide every year.
Read our Strategic Plan 2017-2020 and learn more about the difference we make in our latest Success Report.
