Government is committed to invest in social action programmes for young people. The Cabinet Office funded Centre for Social Action has recently been established to oversee the success of such interventions. A new report by Professor Tony Chapman and Emma Dunkerley explores the success of a national Social Action Fund project run by the National Youth Agency in partnership with O2 Think Big. The project focused on the experiences of young people who were new to volunteering or who had been previously involved in the Government’s flagship National Citizen Service. The research shows that young people who graduated from the NCS become more heavily committed to social action in the future.

Read the report, published December 2013: