We are pleased to share the evaluation of the first year of the Place Based Social Action Programme. The Place Based Social Action (PBSA) Programme is jointly-funded by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) and the National Lottery Community Fund. It provides approximately £4.5 million funding to enable people, communities, local non-statutory organisations
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Renaisi was set up in 1998 to work in, with and for deprived neighbourhoods. Our definition of deprivation and scale of work was very much of its time – an era of significant government investment – and a focus on neighbourhoods drove our work. While much has changed in the intervening twenty years, not least
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Renaisi continues to work with the Power to Change Trust to evaluate their community initiatives, in partnership with MyCake and Close-Up Research. Evaluation of community business funds Renaisi will evaluate the Community Business Fund, Trade Up, and Bright Ideas Fund. Renaisi’s evaluation team will use a mixed methods approach, including quantitative analysis of programme and external
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Hannah Woods, Gingerbread’s Head of Evaluation and Learning explains how the charity for single parents is working with Renaisi to use evidence to inform organisational strategies and learning. Gingerbread has been championing single parents for over a hundred years, but like many charities today, we face tough decisions about where we concentrate our efforts. Through
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What does it take to improve a place? Everyone has their place. On the most basic level, that place could be little more than a specific geography – a location, a dwelling, a spot. More often, places are about feelings. Who could argue that a ‘home’ is made up simply of bricks and mortar and
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