Ecorys has produced a good practise guide for involving beneficiaries in your project. The guide is designed for projects looking to work more closely with their beneficiaries and uses good practise from Reaching Communities programmes in England and Northern Ireland.
You can access the Putting Users at the Helm Guide here
Ecorys has produced a top tips guide bringing together learning from four Reaching Communities networking events that ran in summer and autumn 2010. The events focused on three key areas of:
The document is designed for anyone involved in a Reaching Communities project.
You can access the Top Tips Tool here
Ecorys are pleased to announce that the final evaluation report for Reaching Communities in England and Northern Ireland has now been published. A range of evaluation evidence sources were used in the research, including programme data from 1,436 projects, feedback from 804 projects via annual surveys, and 37 case study visits.
The evaluation found that overall, Reaching Communities has supported a diverse range of projects to achieve an array of positive outcomes for an extremely broad range of target groups and local communities. Over 50 different types of activity were delivered by the programme ranging from advocacy to artwork; languages to life skills; recycling to respite care and youth diversion to volunteering.
The agenda for the three Reaching Communities events in England is now available. The agenda for the events is here Agenda On the day there will be a chance to meet other projects and learn about the wider evaluation. For projects in Northern Ireland we are planning two events for the autumn. Watch this space.
Three networking events being held by Ecorys for Reaching Communities projects are proving really popular. Events in London on 28th July and in Manchester on 29th July are already full and with waiting lists. However we do still have a few last minute spaces at our event in Birmingham on 19th July. Each event has been designed to meet the needs of projects with a chance to meet other projects, share experiences and learn more about the findings of Ecorys’ four year evaluation of the programme.
ECOTEC* are pleased to launch this new blog for all Reaching Communities projects. The blog will contain all of the info from our old website, plus lots of exciting new items. You can find out here about our forthcoming events, our video case studies and our evaluation findings from the overall programme evaluation. If you have news to share you can contact us through the blog or comment on other postings. So…get in touch!
*ECOTEC changed their name on 4th October 2010 to Ecorys.