News & Webinars

Over 2,000 free places are available for children and young people at local holiday clubs and activities in Harrow, this Winter holiday. Each space also includes a free nutritious meal per day.

Harrow’s first Children & Young People Support Conference brought together over 150 professionals in the borough, from schools, charities and local authorities, to benefit young people.

Children and young people in Harrow can now access a wide range of free mental health and emotional support programmes thanks to a new partnership.

This Thursday - 15th of September - Jam Sandwich will be lighting up the stage in support of Mental Health for young people in Harrow. Their performance promises to be jam-full of rock and dance covers, with all the proceeds going to Young Harrow Foundation and the Charlie Waller Trust UK.

For this Summer’s HAF 2022 programme, Harrow have used the funding in an innovative new way to create a hospitality training scheme for local adults to take the first steps in finding a new career.

The Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme is back for the summer, this time with more activities, spaces and opportunities than ever before!

Young Harrow Foundation in conjunction with Harrow Council are working with Unique Community Charity to offer access to this Webinar: Russia-Ukraine War: The Effect the Conflict is having on Children & Young People from our Communities If you are a teacher, youth or community worker and are looking for ways to support children and young people living in Harrow from both communities who are trying to decipher and deal with the effects of the ongoing conflict of war then watch this webinar for support.

● Young people can now find and access free and local mental health services via a new website youngharrowfoundation.org/harrow-is-here ● Children’s Mental Health Week 2022 is happening around the UK on the 7th-13th of February ● Nearly two-thirds (65%) of 9-18 year olds in Harrow “sometimes” or “often” feel depressed or anxious according to a survey of 6,000 local young people

We are thrilled to announce that Change Champion Samy Benaferi has been appointed a trustee of the Young Harrow Foundation, the first young person to join the board!

Youth funding and capacity building charity Impetus has partnered with Bank of America to launch a new training programme for aspiring leaders from ethnic minority backgrounds working in the UK youth sector.

Dr Tabetha Newman, Harrow Council, Young Harrow Foundation and Harrow's School Nursing Service present the key findings from HAY Harrow survey of young people.

YPF Trust asked a group of independent consultants from the INTEN partnership, to look at the work of the Foundations both before and during COVID-19, and also to consider what the future might hold for their model of working with children and young people.

The YPF Trust is looking for a CEO! We are looking for an experienced, charismatic, and enterprising CEO who has a strong track record of using strategic leadership and management to achieve high impact within the charity sector.

“‘It’s not easy asking for help or accepting help sometimes.” This has been made all too real for families across Harrow over the last year. The feeling of not being able to put a meal on your child’s plate in the evening. It is an experience that no parent or child should have to go through.

This last year has been tough. For some more than others. Fears and worries have crept into our daily routines. But there are some things you shouldn’t have to worry about. Like feeding your child. That is why Harrow are running the Holiday Activities and Food Programme (HAF) over the Easter holidays. Local organisations across Harrow are putting on free catered holiday activities for your kids to get involved with.

Harrow partnership have a questionnaire that is designed to help us identify if any of the roles in your organisation should be prioritised for a Covid-19 vaccination.

With funding from the Department for Education we will be able to offer funding to organisations wishing to deliver vital programmes for school age children aged 5-16 years old, during the Easter, Summer and Christmas holidays in 2021.

Help Harrow Helpharrow delivered in partnership with Harrow Council is a self - referral system for all ages, targeting acute needs in specific social areas in Harrow.

Listen to the latest opportunities from Children in Need and John Lyon's Charity to apply for 3 year funding if you are delivering activities for Children or Young People in Harrow as a non for profit organisation.

We are asking all schools and colleges across Harrow to run this during a tutor time during April and May 2021. So far around half of all schools and colleges have signed up.

The national ‘Wellbeing for Education’ initiative (published as Wellbeing for Education Return) aims to build on and strengthen educational settings’ ability to support children’s wellbeing, and the wellbeing of adults in the school community, in the context of the Coronavirus pandemic.

Permission has been granted to convert a School-owned building on the Hill into subsidized offices for the Young Harrow Foundation.

Our Social Media Webinar on 4 November 2020 was designed to share the expertise of our members who are doing exceptionally well in specific areas of social media and online fundraising

Together, we urgently need to curb the spread of this deadly infection and get cases back to a manageable level - especially as the cold sets in and other germs lay people low. We need to help save lives and protect the NHS by staying inside our own homes with our own households.

Young Harrow Foundation have been out and about (on Zoom) interviewing our Members to ask them "does Youth Work Work", Our interns "DO you think Youth Work is Working" and 2 people Dan (YHF CEO) did youth work with over 15 years ago to ask "Did Youth Work Work"

The national youth groups have created a website with a range of resources which are being developed at speed so please signpost your groups to this for guidance and updates: