Social responsibility driving positive change across skills, education and communities
Yorkshire Learning Providers is committed to delivering social value across the region — supporting communities, improving access to education and skills, promoting social mobility and creating opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds.
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Social value, embedded in everything we do
Yorkshire Learning Providers is committed to delivering social value across the region by supporting communities, improving access to education and skills, promoting social mobility, and creating opportunities for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Through collaborative partnerships with providers, employers, local authorities and community organisations, YLP aims to ensure that education and skills provision contributes positively to local economic growth and community wellbeing.
Social value is embedded throughout YLP's projects, research, employer engagement activities and policy work — it isn't a bolt-on, it's the thread that runs through the network.
Supporting Communities
Working with community organisations and local authorities so provision reflects what places actually need.
Access to Skills
Removing the practical and cultural barriers that stop people getting into education and training.
Social Mobility
Championing pathways that move people forward, whatever their starting point.
Economic Growth
Connecting skills provision to regional priorities, employer need and long-term prosperity.
YLP Social Value & Impact
Our full paper sets out how YLP champions social value, training provider and employer voice, and regional opportunity across post-16 education. It covers the initiatives on this page alongside our regionalised education work, research projects, member engagement, employer representation and communications activity.
9 initiatives, socially conscious for a shared purpose
Filter by theme or search to find the work that matters to your organisation. Select any initiative to see what it covers and how to get involved.
Social value is a sector-wide job
No single provider can shift outcomes for young people not in education, employment or training, close gaps in representation, or move an entire sector towards net zero on its own. That's the case for a network — shared practice, shared evidence, shared voice.
"Our initiatives are member-led. They start with something a provider is wrestling with, and become something the whole region can use."
Yorkshire Learning ProvidersCollective reach
Over 120 member organisations spanning independent providers, colleges, universities and schools across Yorkshire and the Humber.
Evidence-led
Research and survey work turns provider and learner experience into recommendations employers and policymakers can act on.
Practical resources
Toolkits, charters and CPD programmes that providers can pick up and use, not just principles to agree with.
Regional influence
Insight feeds directly into LSIPs, combined authority priorities and national policy conversations.
Four ways to take part
Whether you want to contribute expertise, adopt a resource or simply keep an eye on what's happening, there's a route in.
Pick your theme
Browse the initiatives above and identify the one closest to your organisation's priorities or your learners' needs.
Register your interest
Use the form below to tell us which initiative you'd like to be part of and how you'd like to contribute.
Join the conversation
Take part in the relevant forum, working group or panel where the initiative is developed and reviewed.
Use and share
Adopt the toolkits, charters and findings in your own setting — then share back what worked so others benefit.
Talk to us about an initiative
Tell us which initiative you're interested in and a member of the YLP team will get back to you. If you'd rather talk it through, we're always happy to have a conversation first.
Email the team
info@wylp.org.ukFull contact details
Contact Team YLP →Want to shape what we do next?
YLP's initiatives are member-led. If you have an idea, a challenge or a cause you'd like to champion across Yorkshire, we'd love to hear from you.
Areas of Focus
How to Get Involved
Interested in this initiative?Register your interest and the YLP team will be in touch.