Renaisi’s evaluation of Paul Hamlyn’s Youth Fund explored the features that make the Fund unusual and the challenges that those features posed for understanding its impact. Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Youth Fund supports organisations whose main purpose is to help young people (aged 14-25) who face complex transitions to adulthood. Over three years, we explored three characteristics
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A fieldwork diary tracking the evaluation of the impact of the Cares Family network of volunteers and older neighbours in North and South London.
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A late one this week (last week?), as my week ran through until Saturday. Coventry I was in Coventry twice this week with Grapevine, at both ‘ends’ of a project about social action. The first session was in the council offices, with an impressive range of senior staff, talking about how place-based social action in
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It feels like the year is back in full swing now and that it is definitely no longer acceptable to say, Happy New Year to people. Keeping things moving As well as having a couple of consultancy projects that I am heavily involved with, I also take on a project director role for some others.
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Senior Project Manager, Annabel Litchfield, shared early findings from the evaluation of three community business programmes in a recent blog for Power to Change. In the blog Annabel Litchfield shared five key findings from analysis of the application and assessment data of Bright ideas, Trade Up and Community Business Fund, and what we are learning about supporting community
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