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Impetus' approach to backing organisations who work to support young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, our value delivered to partner organisations in 2023/24 and 2024/25 and the impact we've achieved with our partners.
November 2025
IntoUniversity will now enter the Impetus Alumni Network, as we begin a new stage in our relationship.
October 2025
A case study spotlighting Impetus' work with portfolio partner Generation UK and what makes our partnership special.
September 2025
A blog on strategies effectively broadening the reach and depth of philanthropic models, introducing the Impetus model as a case study.
June 2025
Impetus' approach to backing organisations who work to support young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, our value delivered to partner organisations in 2023/24, and the impact we've achieved with our partners.
March 2025
Impetus renews partnership with three Connect Fund organisations.
March 2025
Impetus celebrates the graduation of three longest standing charities from the portfolio.
September 2024
Eleanor Harrison talks to Charity Times about how a focus on values helps her approach the challenges that being a charity and a funder throws up.
February 2024
Driving Impact (DI) workshops are an integral part of Impetus’ support to portfolio partners.
February 2024
Since joining the Impetus portfolio, the success of Action Tutoring has not just been about increasing reach, but a growth in impact.
January 2024
Since Impetus was founded in 2002, we have supported 77 organisations, reaching more than 1.5 million young people to succeed at school, work and in life, with £56 million in funds raised.
December 2023
How a shared belief in the power of tutoring took us on a journey from reflection to refinement to growth.
December 2023
Impact and impact management are central to everything we do in our partnership with City Gateway
November 2023
With our partners we've supported more young people to succeed this year than ever before.
December 2022
2020 has been tough, but our young people are resilient and inventive. We’ve seen many of them meet the hurdles that this year has thrown at them head on and overcome them with ingenuity.
December 2020
This week was our Chief Executive's last at Impetus. He shares his reflections in the hope that it kicks off similar conversations with others in the sector.
July 2020
Thanks to Impetus' Youth Job Gap series, Resurgo have been able to benchmark the performance of their Spear programme, supporting NEET young people into sustained employment, with a base case of what might have happened without their work.
March 2020
With Christmas around the corner, CEO Andy Ratcliffe looks back on Impetus-PEF’s achievements and milestones from the year. Thanking our donors and supporters, Andy looks ahead to 2019 too, as we continue to back the best programmes transforming the lives of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
December 2018
Charity CEOs need to make hard choices. Do you grow or do you drive impact? Do you work on innovation or implementation? Do you spend on the front line or the back office? CEOs need to make 'boring choices'. CEO Andy Ratcliffe asks 'Are you a #BoringCEO?'
December 2018
Funders and charities are trapped in a 'don't-ask, don't-tell' relationship on impact that sees successes exaggerated and too much focus on growth. CEO Andy Ratcliffe reflects on how to escape it.
November 2018
CEO Andy Ratcliffe uses Impetus-PEF’s 5th anniversary to share four reflections on what we’ve learned along the way. He introduces our latest four impact stories featuring IntoUniversity, The Access Project, Action Tutoring and Resurgo.
November 2018
This impact report tells the story of our 11-year partnership with IntoUniversity, totalling nearly £4 million worth of investment team hours, pro bono projects and funding. With our help, IntoUniversity are helping more and more disadvantaged young people – who are half as likely to get a university place than their peers – beat the odds.
November 2018
As a result of their partnership with Impetus, Action Tutoring re-designed their tutoring programme – making it longer, with a structured curriculum, baseline testing and regular monitoring – to see whether this would drive up impact. This impact story reveals what happened and what we’ve been doing with them to take their programme to the next level.
November 2018
In 2014, just over half of the pupils The Access Project was working with were from disadvantaged backgrounds and of these, 66% applied to a selective university and 33% got in. By 2017, following four years of partnership with Impetus, over 90% of pupils came from disadvantaged backgrounds and of those, 85% applied to a selective university and 53% got in. This story reveals how they did that.
November 2018
When Impetus came on board in 2010, Resurgo’s main priority was to expand beyond the two centres it was operating in Hammersmith and Chelsea. Today, with Impetus' support, they have improved the effectiveness of their programme so that they are getting more young people into work, for longer, and they have expanded to eight centres across London.
November 2018
The Center for Effective Philanthropy draws out what works about our Driving Impact approach to working with charities.
November 2018
Magic Breakfast recently won a £24 million tender to deliver breakfast provision to children at 1,770 new schools in poor areas across England – a big increase from the 485 schools they currently serve. Impetus has been working with Magic Breakfast to tackle the challenge of how they can maintain their impact at a larger scale. This impact briefing reveals how.
April 2018
In the first independent case study written about Impetus, Leap of Reason commends both our methods and approach to making charities more effective.
September 2017
A lot of the media surrounding exam results day focuses on the achievements of pupils at the top end of the ability or privilege spectrum. Our charity partner, Action Tutoring, shares some insights from their students.
August 2017
What kind of training is worth a day of a charity leader’s time? This is the question we at Impetus-PEF asked ourselves when developing the training for the Impact for Growth strand of the Impact Management Programme.
April 2017
2016 – not all bad! What’s the first word you think of when you look back on 2016? I can hazard a guess – ‘uncertain’, ‘tumultuous’, maybe ‘historic’, maybe something less polite! But for me the word is ‘inspiring’.
February 2017
Over three years ago Impetus-PEF took the decision to support charities to get much better at the services they deliver – to master impact management.
December 2016
Sepp Blatter, Qatar, Big Sam. I don’t need to say any more to show that football and transparency aren’t exactly easy bedfellows these days. So it’s great to see a football charity, Street League, leading the way on transparency.
November 2016
Charities do good work, but there’s room for improvement. Our Driving Impact paper shares what we’ve learnt from our charities about impact. This is a guide for funders, commissioners and charities to deliver impactful programmes for young people.
October 2016
It’s tough at the top – whatever sector you’re in. But in the social sector, including the youth sector, there are some distinct challenges for leaders. Jenny North, former Director of Policy & Strategy at Impetus, shares her thoughts on impact leadership in this publication – part of the 'Evidence and Impact' essay collection from The Centre for Youth Impact.
July 2016
Earlier this month, I went to one of Resurgo’s Spear celebrations in Bethnal Green. Resurgo is a charity partner of Impetus-PEF, and we’ve been working with them since 2010 – helping them with management support, pro bono advice and strategic injections of funding.
June 2016
Organisations working with young people often mean well. But do they do well? This report is about performance management and features organisations who’ve used their data to help leaders make decisions, managers support their staff and service delivery teams to improve the lives of the young people.
February 2015
Organisations that change young people’s lives – that make a reliable, consistent and predictable impact, have largely been neglected in the social investment sector. This report can help organisations build their capacity to create social change.
September 2014