All of The Evaluator staff are working from home in response to the Coronavirus. Our team is normally home based, but now we are not taking any face to face appointments or travelling to clients. We are having video calls, and phone calls, and emailing more people.
Some of our clients have had to cancel all their work, some are busy trying to work out if they can amend any of their programmes. Some are asking us to do more work for them. We are 'figuring it out' day by day at the moment and trying to be as flexible and helpful as possible.
We are still considering ways in which we can be of help. People across the world are feeling anxious; about themselves, about health, about food shortages, about money, about work, about life as we know it. Our wellbeing is going to be changing all the time, and maybe we should be measuring that?
None of us know what is coming next, so all we can say is, if you are reading this...
Stay safe & stay sane.
Wednesday 18 March 2020
Monday 2 March 2020
Recommissioned for Stronger Families
We are delighted to announce our policy work with Leeds City Council has been recommissioned.
It's always lovely to know that people like your work and want to work with you again. Here at The Evaluator we really do pride ourselves on working hard for current clients. Did you know we are still working with 3 of our original 4 clients? It would probably be 4 out of 4 if a member of staff had not left. Even so, that 75% is something we are really proud of. We know who helped us get started, and we are loyal to our clients. We want to build relationships, and we want them to be long ones. We are trying to transform evaluation services, and one of those ways, is by being so great to work with, people automatically include evaluation, and automatically ask us what we can do for them.
Leeds City Council is the partnership lead for Stronger Families which is a Building Better Opportunities project. These projects are co-financed by the National Lottery Community Fund and the European Social Fund. One of the requirements of the funding is to produce measure-able policies on Cross-Cutting Themes. In this case the policies need to include numbers and show progress towards agreed targets for both Sustainability and Equality.
The Evaluator will again be monitoring and measuring these policies for Stronger Families. We are excited to work together again.
It's always lovely to know that people like your work and want to work with you again. Here at The Evaluator we really do pride ourselves on working hard for current clients. Did you know we are still working with 3 of our original 4 clients? It would probably be 4 out of 4 if a member of staff had not left. Even so, that 75% is something we are really proud of. We know who helped us get started, and we are loyal to our clients. We want to build relationships, and we want them to be long ones. We are trying to transform evaluation services, and one of those ways, is by being so great to work with, people automatically include evaluation, and automatically ask us what we can do for them.
Leeds City Council is the partnership lead for Stronger Families which is a Building Better Opportunities project. These projects are co-financed by the National Lottery Community Fund and the European Social Fund. One of the requirements of the funding is to produce measure-able policies on Cross-Cutting Themes. In this case the policies need to include numbers and show progress towards agreed targets for both Sustainability and Equality.
The Evaluator will again be monitoring and measuring these policies for Stronger Families. We are excited to work together again.
Tuesday 11 February 2020
New Branding Rules!
We have been enjoying using it in lots of different ways recently.
Updating client feedback...
We do work hard you know. It's so nice that others notice and mention it.
We even updated our own measurements...
Yay, very happy with that one!
Think here is a good time to shout out to Holik Creative who did the logo design, concept and branding for us.
They were a dream to work with. Local too. Heartily recommended, give them a shout.
Friday 24 January 2020
Working with the National Festival of Making 2020
We are delighted to announce we are working with The National Festival of Making again in 2020.
The National Festival of Making is an award-winning festival with national renown. In 2019 The Evaluator joined the project team to provide quick solutions to capture audience experience in a fast moving, multi-activity, street and venue-based festival.
The festival team were delighted with their final evaluation report explaining “we are using the evaluation so much and receiving incredible comments about the robustness of the data! Thank you so much!” Lauren Zawadzki, Director, Deco Publique
Not only are they lovely clients to work with, they wanted to know what was possible and actually asked us to give them our dream evaluation brief for the festival this year!
You can see more about the festival here.
Update: March 2020: Sadly the festival has been postphoned due to the Coronavirus outbreak. A full statement is available on the website link above.
The National Festival of Making is an award-winning festival with national renown. In 2019 The Evaluator joined the project team to provide quick solutions to capture audience experience in a fast moving, multi-activity, street and venue-based festival.
The festival team were delighted with their final evaluation report explaining “we are using the evaluation so much and receiving incredible comments about the robustness of the data! Thank you so much!” Lauren Zawadzki, Director, Deco Publique
Not only are they lovely clients to work with, they wanted to know what was possible and actually asked us to give them our dream evaluation brief for the festival this year!
You can see more about the festival here.
Update: March 2020: Sadly the festival has been postphoned due to the Coronavirus outbreak. A full statement is available on the website link above.
Friday 3 January 2020
Thanks to all our 2019 Clients
It's that time of year, when you spend a minute looking back.
What a year we have had! Thanks to all our clients. We can't wait to see who joins the list for 2020. We will probably have to make a two page image next year.
The 'Eagle-Eyed' amongst you may also notice how many clients have stayed with us for another year. We still have our very first two clients! That makes us feel really proud, you absolutely know you are doing a good job when people keep coming back.
What a year we have had! Thanks to all our clients. We can't wait to see who joins the list for 2020. We will probably have to make a two page image next year.
The 'Eagle-Eyed' amongst you may also notice how many clients have stayed with us for another year. We still have our very first two clients! That makes us feel really proud, you absolutely know you are doing a good job when people keep coming back.
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