I offer evaluation for specific projects or time-limited strands of work, ongoing programmes of work or reviewing organisational processes around evaluation, data and monitoring. I create bespoke evaluation plans and frameworks for every project or client, drawing on established evaluation theory whilst aiming to demystify the processes and jargon around evaluation. Most projects I work on typically involve a combination of:
- Reviewing aims, objectives and outcomes
- Creating a bespoke evaluation plan and framework
- Creating evaluation tools and methods of data collection
- Gathering data
- Training for staff and volunteers in different aspects of evaluation
- Facilitating review and evaluation meetings
- Collating and analysing data
- Writing formative and summative evaluation reports
- Summarising evaluation findings (including visual summaries) for public dissemination and specific audiences, for example, trustees and management groups, funders, project participants.
- Dissemination activities such as conference presentations.
I am not wedded to any particular evaluation approach and I tend to cherry-pick approaches and methods to suit the information needs of the project or organisation. I most commonly use a collaborative outcomes evaluation approach, but with elements of realist, illuminative and participatory evaluation.
Current and past evaluation work includes:
- Wiltshire Music Connect Music Education Hub – ongoing evaluation and monitoring support
- Strike A Light and GL4 CIC – evaluation of Reaching Communities project
- Travelling Light Theatre Company – qualitative evaluation of young people’s programme
- Music for Wellbeing CIC – evaluation of Sing and Breathe Salisbury Singing for Lung Health pilot project
- Bath Festivals – evaluation of Routes Through Music (Youth Music Fund B)
- Wiltshire Music Centre – evaluation of Celebrating Age Wiltshire (funded by ACE / Baring Foundation Celebrating Age Programme 2017-2020 and The National Lottery Community Fund 2020-2025)
- Evolve Music – evaluation of Sound Lab (Youth Music Fund A) and Adventurers / Explorers Early Intervention Project
- Arts Development Company – evaluation of Babigloo Music for Babies (Youth Music Fund A project)
- Trans Europe Halles – evaluation of Factories of Imagination (Creative Europe Culture Sub-Programme)
- In Between Time – evaluation of IBT Summit 2019
- Circus City – Bristol Circus City 2017 and 2019 evaluation
- Arts & Health South West – evaluation of Alternative Visions (ACE Strategic Touring Programme)
- Deeds Not Words – evaluation of Bristol’s Centenary of Suffrage Celebrations led by Bristol Women’s Voice (funded by Governement Equalities Office)
- Bath Festivals – evaluation of Building Bridges (Youth Music Fund A project)
- Wiltshire Youth Arts Partnership – evaluation of Fabric of Life (Heritage Lottery Fund)
- South Gloucestershire Council – evaluation of Libraries West Touring Programme (ACE Strategic Touring Programme)
- Bristol Plays Music – evaluation of Sound Splash (Youth Music Musical Inclusion Module 2012-15)
- Leicester-Shire Music Education Hub – evaluation of Ensembles and Performance Strategy
- Sounding It Out Choir – evaluation of The Trowbridge Song Project (Arts Council England GfA)
- Wiltshire Youth Arts Partnership – evaluation of Music Matters (SWAG Musical Inclusion commissions)
- Count Me In – evaluation of Heartbeats Project (Youth Music)
- Bath Festivals – evaluation of Make Music Happen Project (Youth Music)
- Merlin Theatre – evaluation of Sound Explorers Project.