Evaluation

Which tool to use? A guide to evaluating health and wellbeing outcomes for community growing programmes.

This useful resource includes tools that can be used by projects delivering a wide spectrum of nature-based activities, such as green care and nature-based health promotion, and helps them to choose appropriate evaluation tools. It focuses on tools that measure holistic health and wellbeing and progress towards person-centred goals. From Social Farms & Gardens.

Good from Woods research toolkit

‘Good from Woods is a community of researchers exploring and reporting on the health and wellbeing outcomes of spending time in the woods. The toolkit is designed to help you do rigorous research into whether your woodland activity has an impact on the health and wellbeing of participants.’

Social Impact Toolkit: how to measure it

"Wellbeing Valuation is an established lightweight framework for measuring social impact. This converts outcomes into monetary values based on how much they increase individual wellbeing."

Learning with Nature – Embedding Outdoor Practice, by Claire Warden

Outdoor practice and how children can learn and develop in natural environments. Contains a self-evaluation toolkit, examples of good practice and a chapter on assessment & planning to help ensure quality of provision. Book available from Muddy Faces.

Learning Away Evaluation Toolkit

‘Designed to help those responsible for planning or leading residentials in schools evaluate the experience to understand the impact and what could be improved.’ Covers: why is evaluation useful – introduction – designing your evaluation – collecting your data – using your evaluation evidence – resource library. From Learning Away.

Social Value UK: resources

“Find what you need to help you measure and maximise your social value”. Guides, tools, case studies and more, explaining the concept of social value, and how to measure your project’s impact.

UKES – the UK Evaluation Society

‘Exists to promote and improve the theory, practice, understanding and utilisation of evaluation and its contribution to public knowledge and to promote cross-sector and cross-disciplinary dialogue and debate.’

Arts for health and wellbeing: an evaluation framework

"This document provides effective ways to document and evaluate arts projects and programmes that seek to improve health and wellbeing." gov.uk

Arts Council Self Evaluation toolkit

‘Self evaluation is a vital first step towards improving your work. It can also help with self confidence and resilience. We’ve developed a Self Evaluation toolkit for people, companies and partnerships in the arts, cultural and creative sectors. The toolkit has 24 questions with links to help you improve your work. When you are finished, you can generate a report on one evaluation or comparing several.’

CultureHive

A free resource to help you discover and share best practice in cultural marketing. The website features evaluation case studies, toolkits and research articles, including DIY Evaluation & Research. From the Arts Marketing Association.