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Jul 09 2025

Showcasing the support we can give to you

The VVU works with lots of brilliant projects and interventions right across the county. Projects that support young people in all sorts of ways – giving them a safe space to meet; providing positive adult role models; giving them access to mentors and counselling; helping them access sport, drama, art and other leisure activities. Projects […]

Jul 01 2025

Essex VVU: What does the evidence tell us?

This note provides a summary of evidence of factors associated with serious violence and aims to give the reader an idea of associated risk and protective factors. This may be of particular interest to applicants for the Essex VVU Grants programme. A Public Health approach to preventing violence As evidence suggests, Essex VVU views youth […]

May 09 2025

Developing ReRoute

Our ReRoute practitioners, who work with young people aged 17 – 25 (who have been arrested and on bail or released under investigation for offences relating to drugs and violence), have been analysing which approaches work best with the individuals we support and how we can ensure those we no longer need to work with […]

Nov 22 2024

Out There at Wilderness

The afternoon before the snow fell briefly across Essex, a couple of the VVU were invited to join one of the Out There groups for a chat around the campfire at Wilderness Foundation’s newly acquired Mann Wood site. Out There is a programme, funded by the VVU, which supports young people aged 11 to 15 […]

Nov 20 2024

‘You Said, We Did’ funding allocated

Using insight gained from the young people’s Listening Report the VVU continue to respond to locally based needs, including through our ‘You Said, We Did’ funding pot. This funding pot supports local youth groups with purchasing equipment suggested by the young people who attend the project and links to improving the offer and activities on […]

Sep 24 2024

ReRoute: redirect lives, rewrite futures

ReRoute works with young adults, where an individual is often presenting with some of the most prolific vulnerabilities. ReRoute is a voluntary programme that reaches out to 17–25-year-olds who are suspected of having committed the following offences (with a home address in Southend, Essex and Thurrock): Possession of a bladed article Possession of class A […]