Social Value Lab has worked with Regional Screen Scotland to produce a new online ‘toolkit’ to help local cinemas across the UK to make the case for how much they matter to their communities, by measuring and understanding their social impacts.
In March 2019 The Audience Agency delivered a series of evaluation workshops for libraries, commissioned by the DCMS Libraries Taskforce and supported by Arts Council England. Four workshops were delivered across England; in the North West, North East, South West, and London / South East regions. This Resource Pack brings together the evaluation workshop slide set and notes, themed resource links … More
Lorna Dennison, senior consultant, Morris Hargreaves McIntyre shows us some simple ways to stop evaluation just being a tick box exercise and turn it into rocket fuel for future improvement.
Creative People and Places teams, artists, evaluation partners and critical friends share a selection of approaches, models and methods for evaluating participatory arts programmes.
The cultural sector makes a significant contribution to people’s lives, to society and the economy – so why do we struggle to convey its impact? This study, led by the Centre for Cultural Value, shares findings from a national, interdisciplinary research project that aims to tackle the crisis the cultural sector is currently facing in harnessing … More
Creative Scotland’s Is this the best it can be? is a toolkit that can be used by anyone delivering arts and creative learning through collaborative or participatory projects and programmes.
Creative & Credible supports arts and health organisations and practitioners to: – engage with evaluation creatively – improve your practice – make well-informed spending decisions – strengthen the evidence base around the benefits and impacts of arts and health projects Use this website to understand why you might need to evaluate, what approaches might be appropriate, and … More
Evaluation needs to be planned and managed in the same way as any other project, with attention to budget, resources, timeline and milestones throughout. In this section we show how to develop an evaluation plan that will describe the evaluation approach and how it will be undertaken.
This hypothetical case study draws on Willis Newson’s experience of evaluating arts projects with older people in residential care homes.
The evaluation cycle offers an overarching framework to understand evaluation as an iterative process. It was developed by Willis Newson with researchers at the University of the West of England (Daykin et al. 2013) to guide practitioners.
