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Wellcome Collection We were engaged by Wellcome Collection to evaluate its work with individuals and organisations who collaborate on aspects of its extensive public programme. In particular, Wellcome was keen to learn how collaborators had experienced the collaboration process and to consider ways in which it could develop its working practices in future. To this…

Engage is the lead advocacy and training network for gallery education and supports arts educators, organisations and artists to work with communities in dynamic, open exchanges that give everyone the opportunity to learn and benefit from the arts. Armstrong Cameron was appointed to programme the Engage International Conference, 2017. Entitled The Whole Picture and taking…

We are delighted to have been selected as evaluators / critical friends for Square Peg, an Artlink Centre for Community Arts project in Hull. Square Peg is part of the city’s programme of events for 2017 UK City of Culture. Square Peg is a socially engaged, user led diversity and disabled arts programme. Artlink is…

Funded by Arts Council England and running from November 2016 to the end of March 2017, Telling is the first independent project designed and delivered by Armstrong Cameron. Designed as a pilot, it will support us in developing our approach to incorporating storytelling in evaluation. We will recruit four small arts organisations which will collaborate…

PAWS and CLAP were cross – Wales projects funded through the Big Lottery Fund which aimed to support individuals living with HIV and / or hepatitis through a range of counselling and clinical interventions. We were commissioned to carry out a comprehensive evaluation of the projects’ programmes of activity. This included: Focus groups Interviews with…

Enhancing Resilience and Sustainability: Funded through the Transform Leeds budget, we were commissioned to consult with the black and minority ethnic led community and voluntary sector in the city to find out its priorities and challenges during a period of austerity. To this end, we organised summits for the sector to learn about their challenges…

FACT Veterans in Practice (VIP) evaluation: Supported by core investment from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation to meet infrastructural costs and supplemented with funding from other sources to meet the costs of arts activity, Veterans in Practice (VIP) is part of a portfolio of activity through which FACT sought to deliver to the ethos of its…

Science in Motion evaluation: Funded by the Wellcome Trust and delivered by Phoenix Dance Theatre, Science in Motion seeks to test an innovative approach to teaching science to children across six primary and secondary schools, using contemporary dance as a stimulus. Our role is to test the efficacy of the approach; to find out how…

VOLUNTARY ACTION LEEDS: Equality Impact assessment: Voluntary Action Leeds (VAL) wanted to find out how it was performing in respect of its equality and diversity practice. With this in mind, we were commissioned to survey and talk with staff, Board members and organisations from across the city to gain an understanding of how VAL’s practice…

Mechanics at Home evaluation: Funded by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), Arts Council England (ACE), Burnley Leisure and Stocks Massey, Mechanics at Home supported a process of creative enquiry which enabled residents of two wards to engage with the arts both within their own neighbourhoods and to make use of The Mechanics,…