Robertson Trust: Changing Lives
Learning and Evaluation Partner: Changing Lives through Sport and Physical Activity Fund
We worked with sportscotland, Scottish Government, The Robertson Trust and Spirit of 2012 providing a programme of support around monitoring, evaluation and learning for the Changing Lives Fund. This involved developing a monitoring and evaluation report for funded projects; providing individual support for 17 funded partnerships around evaluation; facilitating four learning events over two years; and producing Fund level evaluation reports. The work ran from 2019 to 2021.
sportscotland: Women and Girls Fund
Support and Building Evaluation Capacity
We evaluated the Women and Girls Fund for sportscotland. The learning from this work helped sportscotland to understand the outcomes the programme achieved, and what factors encourage women and girls to engage in physical activity. The work involved discussion groups with people taking part in activities across 15 funded projects. We developed case studies which highlight good and innovative practice and we held learning workshops for organisations.
Reports from the work can be found here.
Creative Scotland: Evaluation of the YMI
Youth Music Initiative Evaluation and support
Our team evaluated the Youth Music Initiative which supports music in schools through £10 million funding each year. In 2014/15 we undertook a retrospective evaluation looking back over ten years of the YMI. For the next three years, we supported those delivering YMI activity to better monitor and report on the difference they make. This involved a series of learning events, one to one support and written guidance on evaluation and how to gather evidence about outcomes and impact. The published reports and research paper are available online.