Evaluations, Research, Feasibility & Impact Studies

We offer expertise in identifying and appraising the impacts of cultural sectors, projects and programmes or in testing the feasibility of creative, business, operational or capital plans.

We can help you undertake strategic sector Research, Audits and Reviews or to conduct formal Economic Impact or Feasibility Studies to test the reach of programmes or lay the foundations for future policy or investment.

We can provide packages of advice or support to meet your needs; from Initial Guidance in setting-up robust evaluation frameworks, to conducting Longitudinal Reviews. We offer experience in evaluating arts and cultural programmes against public health, community development, education or young people's service agendas.

• In 2014, we evaluated the internationally funded transnational arts initiative 'Ici et Là, Here and There'. The project, curated by Christine Gist in partnership with Claremont Studios, St Leonards-on-Sea and La Plate-Forme, Laboratoire d’Art Contemporain Dunkerque, commissioned artists from the UK, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland and Italy and was initiated for Dunkerque 2013 Regional Capital of Culture.

• In 2017 we evaluated the two-year Raising the Game programme for ARC, Stockton on Tees and its aims to increase the amount and quality of theatre and spoken word created and performed in the NE region and to support the cross fertilisation of ideas, skills and professional practice between performing artists and companies across the country.
• We have carried out evaluations of outdoor arts festivals in the UK  including an economic impact study of Winchester Hat Fair, with arts consultant Neil Debnam, we evaluated Greenwich+Docklands International Festival and the model and management of Fuse Medway Fuse Festival on behalf of Medway Council