Projects and Funders

IARS is proud of its youth-led research and policy expertise in the fields of community cohesion, human rights, equality, restorative justice and criminal justice. IARS' board of Trustees are all experts in these fields either through practice, academia or policy making. IARS pursues projects that are intended to benefit the public. Through our work we aim to support charities that pursue similar goals, and to fight the culture of highly paid, profit-making consultancies. We believe that within the Third Sector and young people lies expertise and passion that cannot be found elsewhere and that the views of young people need to be represented. Our research is youth led in the sense that it is identified, designed, delivered and scrutinised by young people.

IARS is a great believer of partnership working. We have established closed relationship with a number of organisations in the voluntary and community sector regionally, nationally and internationally.

For a full list of IARS' 2008-9 youth led project click here

Examples of our work:

• The Equality and Human Rights Commission funded project "The Human Rights Dimensions of Community Cohesion"

• IARS maintains an online free library with original youth-led papers on human rights, equality, restorative justice and criminal justice.

• The V funded Youth Empowerment Project (YEP).

• The Young People's Hate Crime Project funded by the National Youth Agency

• Government Office for London funded project "The voluntary and community sector: Another emergency service?". Press Release here

• Equal funded project, run by Race on the Agenda, Phase 1 Report: The Hidden Dimensions of Black, Asian and minority ethnic homelessness

• Restoring Faith: Resolving the Roman Catholic Church's Sexual Scandals Through Restorative Justice. Click here for more details.

• Restorative Justice and sexual offending within the Catholic Church. Read more

We have received funding from:

• Government Office for London  
• V - The volunteering charity
• The National Youth Agency
• Race on the Agenda
• London Civic Forum
• Safer London Foundation
• Commission for Racial Equality and now Equality and Human Rights Commission
• Big Boost  
• The LGBT Consortium  
• Equal - European Commission