Charlee Bennett, one of our Team v leaders from Wokingham, explains what it was like to take part in the peer evaluation of Team v... After completing my second campaign working to prevent isolation and loneliness in older people, I offered to run a community jury session in my community as part of CFE's peer evaluation. I decided to partake in the assessment as I thought it would be a really good chance to see how my team and I managed to affect our community and if we had m...

We asked Rebecca Lee and Sarah Neat, from research consultancy, CFE, to talk us through how they put young participants at the heart of their Team v programme evaluation with the Centre for Social Action at De Montfort University. Read on to find out more about the evaluation and how it's helping us shape our future work.... What’s the aim of the evaluation? To explore the impact of the programme and inform its future development. Through desk research and...

In 2011, vInspired set up a new network called Team v with the aim of giving 18 – 25 year old volunteers the chance to change the world, one campaign at a time. Powered by young people who are socially aware and want to change things for the better, forty team leaders were selected from locations across England to run three national campaigns in their local communities. And they've already done so much to be proud of... Tackling loneliness and isolation in older people ...

Chloé Martin, Youth Network Coordinator at vInspired, explains what our flagship youth-led programme, Team v is all about, what  teams have achieved so far and our hopes for the future.... What is Team v? Team v is a leadership and social action programme that inspires and empowers young people to be a positive force for social change by joining together to improve lives in their local communities. Our Team v leaders carry out 3 different campaigns over rough...

It’s been an eventful and truly inspiring week for one of our most exciting programmes here at vInspired. In 2011, we set up a new network called Team v with the aim of giving 18 – 25 year old volunteers the chance to change the world, one campaign at a time. Powered by young people who are socially aware and want to change things for the better, forty team leaders were selected from locations across England to run three national campaigns. Tackling food poverty ...

David Miliband MP has pledged his support for Teamv 's mission to tackle food poverty this Christmas. David agreed to support the campaign after Team vInspired London leader Luke Harris spotted him on a Tube train and seized the opportunity to tell the MP (and the rest of the tube carriage) all about Team v. He met Luke and his team at the Houses of Parliament yesterday (December 8) to hear more about their campaign to tackle food poverty. Team vInspired leaders are settin...

Sitting on the train en route to the Team v interviews I saw a front page stating the level of Youth unemployment. That made me think; how can you make yourself stand out from the crowd when you’re 17 and living at a time when everyone is money conscious. There is a need for innovative opportunities that aren’t focused around money. I’m looking at starting life with £27,000 minimum student debt with not the best prospects of gaining immediate employment. So the ...

Wow.. so it’s been a busy couple of weeks for the Team v Crew. We have been swamped with fresher and volunteer fairs and our feet haven’t touched the ground! Our aim has been to spread the word about our new and exciting Leadership and Social Action Programme Team v and the response has been great. So far we have been to Worcester, Leeds, Birmingham, London, Sussex, Keele, Sheffield, Southampton, Salford and are in Nottingham and London next week. Each event has been co...