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Peer Action Collective programme
Pure Insight are excited to be working with the Youth Endowment Fund (YEF), and the Young Foundation on their innovative Peer Action Collective programme
This research project aims to gain in-depth insights into the lives of young people who are in care, care experienced, or on the edge of care, and who are impacted by experience of youth (peer) violence, and how they can be supported away from youth violence. There are two parts to the work, in four phases over two years:
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Research: Young people will lead every part, from design to analysis, to sharing findings.
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Social Action: gives opportunity for young people to create youth-led projects and resources, raising awareness of their research findings with the wider community and decision makers to create local change and inform recommendations on a national platform, from what they’ve found. ​
The Youth Endowment Fund are particularly interested in the voices of young people who are often underrepresented and unheard. Pure Insight has strong links with care experienced people, the expertise and understanding to work with them and the desire to amplify their voices.
This provides a great opportunity for Pure Insight to be involved in a significant piece of research into youth violence, with tangible social action outcomes, and is a great way to further our work with Young People, to offer meaningful and interesting roles with plenty of personal development, and the opportunity to take them to their next stage in life.
Pure Insight need to recruit 10 new Young People as PAC leads to shape and deliver the research and social action work We’ll also need to recruit 500 Research participants, 50 Changemakers (YP aged 10-25) to help design and deliver social action) and 100 Social action participants (YP aged 10-25) to take place in social action). It’s going to be a busy two years, and we need your help! ​
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Phase 1 - Spring 2026
Research project 1 – 150 x interviews designed and completed, analysed
Phase 2 - Late Spring / Summer 2026
Social Action project 1 designed and delivered, celebration and interim forum
Phase 3 - Late Autumn 2026 to early spring 2026
Research project 2 - 350 surveys launched, completed, analysed.
Phase 4 - Early to mid 2027
Social Action project 2 designed and delivered, celebration and conference
Phase 5 - Spring 2027
Research project 3 – 75 x interviews designed and completed, analysed
Phase 4 - Mid 2027
Social Action project 2 designed and delivered, celebration and conference
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For more information call Helena on 07958 581733, or email PAC@pure-insight.org.uk
Introducing our PAC project leads
Harriet, Research Lead
Harriet’s spent five years researching food insecurity, with her recent PhD researching young peoples’ access to food and their participation in food circuits of care. Her research focuses on amplifying under-represented voices through creative, participatory methods. Her additional work with Lancaster District Food Justice Partnership in front line community work, funding and partnership development, means she’s ideally placed to work with our PAC leads to ensure the highest levels of creativity in research, combined with rigour in process, and a satisfying first step into the world of sociological research and impact for our PAC leads and our participants. Harriet’s a trustee of Stanleys Community centre in Morecambe, a volunteer dog walker, and she enjoys baking in her spare time.
Steve, Participation Lead
Steve’s held a number of roles in social work in both his native Canada and the UK. More recently he’s been involved in social work management and training, and he’s now having fun returning to his roots of working more directly with young people in the PAC project in leading the development of our ten PAC leads as workers, and supporting them to support the PAC research and social action participants. As well as maximising this opportunity to boost the voices of care experienced young people, and make meaningful change, With a long standing interest in creating opportunities for young people to realise their potential, and relational education, Steve’s also a trustee of the Ambition Multi Academy Trust, and enjoys being jumped on and bitten by his puppy Bailey in his spare time. stephen@pure-insight.org.uk
Helena, Community development manager
This project is overseen by Helena, Pure Insight’s Community development manager whose background in third sector volunteering, community development and project work, combined with five years as a Pure Insight volunteer mentor (which she does in her spare time), completes the team.
Steve and Harriet are joined by 10 PAC leads - people aged 18-25, who are care experienced and have experience of peer violence, either as perpetrators, victims or significant risk. The leads shape the whole project – deciding what questions to ask, how to ask them, and helping to recruit to the interviews as well as conducting them. They’ll also shape the Social Action part of our work – using the research to deliver projects and campaigns in our communities – we’ll recruit Changemakers to help and advise with this. In short, we’re amplifying the voices of our PAC leads by putting them in the driving seat to amplify the voices of another 500 other young people, and reach even more via social action!