Evaluation and Appraisal

‘True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information’. Winston Churchill

Have you achieved what you wanted to? Do you know now and why things turned out as they did? Can success be repeated elsewhere? Accountability for tax payers’ money has never been under closer scrutiny, yet proving results is ever harder. Our evaluation experience runs from prior appraisal to long term follow up:

• Ex ante appraisal and forecasting
• in-project assessment and performance management
• impact assessment
• cost benefit and social return on investment
• evaluation training and qualification design

Project experience includes:

• Impact and learning from employability projects for long term unemployed and excluded people in London, Greater London Authority
• What Works in overcoming barriers to employment transnational study, Newhaven Community Development Association
• Evaluation of NOMS ESF programme 2007-2013, outcomes and learning, National Offender Management Service
• Integration of Third Country Nationals in South East London through community participation and greenspace use, Groundwork London
• Evaluation of impact and learning from ‘Olympic Host Boroughs Employment Project’, Groundwork London
• Effectiveness and wider benefits of employment support for people with mental health conditions, Ipswich CVS
• Social prescribing as a vehicle for employment and skills support, Sussex Community Development Association
• Appraisal for development of community health and wellbeing centres, Hastings and Rother Clinical Commissioning Group