This website promotes wellbeing through high quality presentations of contemporary artists – visual, performing, and craft – commissioned specially for this purpose. Initiated during Covid lockdown, it needed a full assessment and options for the way forward in post-Covid conditions.
This important Programme was promoted by the Arts Council of Wales in partnership with the Welsh Confed to fund Arts Coordinators in each Health Board, jointly funded between the Arts Council and the Health Boards. The evaluation explored all major aspects of the investment, including comparative assessments between the Health Boards.
This Programme funded by Healthy Weight, Healthy Wales initially needed a ‘discovery’ phase by RCS to establish how best to craft an approach most likely to succeed. We followed this up with a two year evaluation of the three funded Projects in Cardiff, Merthyr, and Ynys Mon, assessing both common success conditions and barriers, and also the Projects’ unique aspects
Welsh Government commissioned RCS to co-design with stakeholders a New Approach to Volunteering in Wales, focussing on broad enabling factors and also on the specifics of key sectors such as Arts and Culture, Health and Social Care, the Welsh Language Community, and Education. The New Approach also has an Implementation Plan, translating vision into action.
RCS has supported the development of local democracy and good governance in Myanmar, commissioned by the Forum and funded by the Canadian Government. This has included a Programme Evaluation, development of Impact Assessment tools, and training democratic actors to build new institutions, both before and since the military coup.
RCS were appointed by Sport Wales in September 2016 to undertake a real time evaluation of their innovative Lottery funded programme, ‘Calls 4 Action’. The Programme aims to engage key target groups in greater sport participation – women and girls, disabled people, BME people, and those living in disadvantaged communities.
RCS were appointed by BBC Spotlight to assess the quality of decision making and governance in relation to the Northern Ireland Social Investment Fund (SIF). The SIF is an £80m+ innovative community development programme with declared objectives to tackle complex and deep seated issues of exclusion, unemployment, and poverty in Northern Ireland.
This evaluation was commissioned to assess whether new working practices have improved the effectiveness, efficiency, impact, participation, and relevancy of the organisation. It was overseen by an Advisory Board with representation from the CEMR Secretariat and from members of CEMR’s working structures.
Due to the severe downward pressure on Welsh Government revenue budgets, Supporting People budgets faced average reductions of 7.6% in 2015/16. This made it even more important that as much resource as possible is directed to front line service delivery, and that costs such as management charges are minimised.