Impact Management Canvas
A straightforward tool to help arts and cultural organisations think about how we monitor and evaluate impact and improve our impact management. Developed by Arts & Culture Finance by nesta.
Resources tagged with evaluation
Webinar: Measuring Impact
Learn about how best to integrate monitoring and evaluation into your organisation in this webinar from Arts & Culture Finance by nesta.
Evaluation report: Birmingham 2022 Festival
An overarching evaluation report of the key findings from the Birmingham 2022 Festival. This report represents the culmination of 12-months’ work collaborating with the Organising Committee for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games (the OC) to evaluate its cultural programme, the Birmingham 2022 Festival.
Better data on the cultural economy: scoping study
A DCMS commissioned report that outlines ways to strengthen cultural sector data to help ascertain its value and contribution to UK economy and society, enabling effective policy development. By MyCake, in association with the Audience Agency.
Making Data Work: A scoping study to develop a mixed-methods evaluation framework for culture
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 … Read more
How to … fail well
Owning and admitting openly to failure can be uncomfortable. But what do we mean by failure, and how can we change our perspective away from things ‘going wrong’ to genuinely learn and reflect? This how-to guide will help cultural organisations not only to recognise failure, but to do it well.
How to… write a learning case study
We all learn in different ways – through our practice as much as through the evaluation that follows. But how can you communicate your own learning journey in a way that benefits others? What do you need to consider before you start developing a case study? What does an effective case study need to include?
Sharing learning: Reframing success and failure in artistic practice – Slung Low
In this case study, members from Slung Low theatre company discuss the challenges they faced in taking on their biggest outdoor project to date, Flood.
How to… co-create an evaluation
Co-creation is a term we may hear a lot, but an evaluation of your project that is genuinely co-created can be really powerful. This guide from Mark Robinson of Thinking Practice will help you think about how every stage of your evaluation process, from planning to action to review, can be something that is developed … Read more
Evaluation Principles
These evaluation principles are a sharing of ideas to inform how evaluation is carried out and used in the cultural sector.