{"id":10,"date":"2025-01-23T12:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T12:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/bre\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2025-08-11T19:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T18:37:18","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/theyoungfoundation\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"hero\">\n\t<div class=\"hero__container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"hero__row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"hero__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/theyoungfoundation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/418\/2025\/08\/tyf-banner2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tyf-banner2\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"title\">\n\t<div class=\"title__container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"title__row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"title__content\">\n\t\t<h1>\n\t\t  About The Young Foundation\t  <\/h1>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"content\">\n\t<div class=\"content__container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"content__row\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"content__column\">\n\t\t  \t\t\t\t<p>Everyone in the UK should experience the power of participation to shape a fairer future.<\/p>\n<h3>Our Approach<\/h3>\n<p><strong>We Understand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Working with local people, governments, businesses and policymakers, we develop original research to uncover insights, new evidence and data to support social innovation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We Involve<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Actively involving people in research and innovation, we strengthen the relationships between communities and the organisations that influence their wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We Innovate<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Creating initiatives that involve people from diverse sectors, we support game-changing ventures and incubate ground-breaking organisations, working to shape a fairer future.<\/p>\n<p>The Young Foundation is the UK\u2019s home for community research and social innovation. As a not-for-profit, we drive positive change and supporting collective action to improve people\u2019s lives.\u00a0\u00a0We are a not-for-profit organisation driving community research and social innovation. We bring communities, organisations and policymakers together to understand the issues people care about and support collective action to improve lives. We involve communities in research and innovate together to inspire positive change. We deliver distinctive initiatives and programmes to shape a fairer future. We also power the Institute for Community Studies. <!-- Jess said it should be this - picking this up from the Data scientist --><\/p>\n<p>We are now seeking an entrepreneurial, passionate and experience leader to build on the sustained commitment of our outgoing CEO to take The Young Foundation into its next stage of growth and impact.<\/p>\n<h3>The Power of Participation<\/h3>\n<p>Our ambitious five-year strategy embodies the spirit of our founder, the social entrepreneur Michael Young, to embrace collective effort, redesigning the social contract between people, communities, state and business \u2013 and shaping a fairer, greener future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youngfoundation.org\/our-work\/publications\/the-power-of-participation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read our vision for 2024-2028 here.<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/theyoungfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/theyoungfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/theyoungfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/theyoungfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/theyoungfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/theyoungfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/theyoungfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micro.green-park.co.uk\/theyoungfoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}