EPIC is a community interest company that delivers a comprehensive range of youth support services to children and young people up to the age of 19 and 25 who have a lifelong learning difficulty and/or disability. We supported EPIC to develop an overarching organisational Theory of Change, and further Theories of Change for its three delivery streams.
Read MoreImpact Hub is a global network comprising more than 50 venues across five continents. The Hub brings together and supports a community of members who share a common purpose in work that has a social impact. We supported two regional hubs to articulate the benefits of the hub model through a theory of change approach, and collaborated with the Hub Westminster to deliver practical workshops designed to help social innovators get their ideas off the ground.
Read MoreLaunched in 2009, The Mayor’s Fund for London is a charity that aims to improve the life chances and aspirations of disadvantaged young Londoners and their families. The organisation runs breakfast clubs, literacy and numeracy projects, and supports employers to create decent and sustainable career prospects for young people. We helped the fund to develop its approach to building an evidence base for its emerging portfolio of work.
Read MoreThe Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is one of the largest independent grant-makers in the UK. It awards grants of £30 - £35 million per year for work within the arts, education and learning, the environment and social change. We worked with a selection of the Foundation’s grantees to address gaps in skills, networks, systems and evidence to help them expand and maintain their work beyond the funded period.
Read MoreThe Tutorfair Foundation's on-demand app offers one to one maths tuition to students from disadvantaged areas through an instant messaging platform. The app was piloted in four urban schools ahead of a planned roll out across the country, and aimed to increase access to tutoring in rural areas, and improve app-users' GCSE results. TSIP provided an evaluation of the project, assessing the extent to which the pilot delivered the intended benefits, as well as how well it worked in practice for students and teachers.
Read MoreYouth Music is a national charity investing in music-making projects for children and young people experiencing challenging circumstances. TSIP delivered a workshop for organisations in the Alliance for a Musically Inclusive England, laying the foundations for collaborative working, exploring specific challenges that the group would like to see changed, and designing mutually reinforcing activities.
Read MoreSmart Works is a UK charity that provides high quality interview clothes, styling advice and interview training to women in need. Smart Works gives women the confidence, the self-belief and the practical tools they require to succeed at a job interview and start a new chapter of their life. TSIP worked with Smart Works – a Centre for Social Action and Innovation (CSAIF) grantee – to evaluate the social impact of their work, and to strengthen the organisation’s in-house evaluation skills, tools and processes to collect and analyse data, generate insight and develop their services in response.
Read MoreBig Society Capital is an independent financial institution, set up to grow the social investment market in the UK. Between 2012 and 2014 it provided over £150m in social investment for charities and social enterprises to help improve their impact on society. We worked with a selection of Social Investment Financial Institutions to embed an evidence-based approach in future funding.
Read MoreSave the Children UK is an international non-governmental organisation that promotes children’s rights, provides relief, and runs health and education programmes worldwide. Founded in 1919 in London, the organisation now operates in 120 countries, helping millions of children every year. We created an innovation strategy to enable Save the Children UK to identify and scale promising programmes.
Read MoreSwindon Borough Council delivers services for the area's 150,000 residents, including housing, schooling and social care. We supported Swindon to capture evidence about what works and why to enable it to maximise the impact of council spending.
Read MoreFounded in 1962, St Giles Trust aims to break the cycle of offending, crime and disadvantage by training prisoners to act as peer advisors to other offenders. It also provides housing, education and employment support to help ex-offenders reintegrate into the community. We were commissioned to conduct process, impact, and economic evaluations for many of their largest programmes, including the Southwark Outreach Service and Women's Information and Resettlement for Ex-offenders Service.
Read MoreThe London Community Foundation (LCF) is a charity that specialises in supporting grassroots, community-based organisations across London. In 2010, LCF joined forces with The London Evening Standard to launch The Evening Standard Dispossessed Fund (ESDF). Every year, a different theme is spotlighted, with grant making focused on the biggest issues facing the capital. In 2017, TSIP evaluated the LCF capacity building programme for the 'Estates We're In' project, helping grassroots charities to tackle social exclusion on deprived housing estates. ESDF then launched the Food for London campaign, funding organisations tackling food waste and food poverty across London. In 2018, we worked with LCF to evaluate the impact of the programme, with targeted recommendations for how food surplus should be approached and funded in the future.
Read MoreThe Metropolitan Police is London’s police service. One of the oldest in the world, today the force employs nearly 50,000 full-time personnel and covers a population of 7.2 million. We worked with both the Commission and the Metropolitan Police to design and deliver a service user survey to capture key data for the Commission’s report.
Read MoreGeneration Change is an independent membership organisation that brings together 18 of the largest providers of youth social action opportunities in the UK. Generation Change runs projects in thousands of local communities and schools to tackle issues ranging from educational disadvantage to community cohesion. We worked with Generation Change to develop a proposal for how the youth social action sector could better evaluate its impact and communicate the results to stakeholders.
Read MoreKensington and Chelsea Borough Council is a London regional authority. One of London’s most densely populated boroughs, it is home to around 160,000 residents. We ran a joint project with Kensington and Chelsea, and Hammersmith and Fulham, to develop a strategy for improved partnership working and intelligence sharing related to Serious Youth Violence. We also helped the Family and Children’s Services commissioning team to identify and address the challenges of moving towards outcomes-based commissioning.
Read MoreLeonard Cheshire Disability is a charity that supports disabled people across the UK through campaigning, providing care, and helping to develop people’s skills through employment, education, health, volunteering and digital inclusion projects. We delivered two bespoke workshops for staff at Leonard Cheshire to help them develop an approach to using evidence and evaluating their work.
Read MoreThe Home Office is a UK government department with responsibility for immigration, drugs policy, crime policy, and counter-terrorism measures. We partnered with an academic to conduct research into cybercrime trends to inform a new strategy.
Read MoreLewisham Council is a regional authority in south-east London, providing services for some 277,000 residents. We helped Lewisham Council explore how it could use an idea management and innovation platform to transform its services.
Read MoreHammersmith and Fulham Council is a west London regional authority that provides services for over 180,000 residents. We ran a joint project with Hammersmith and Fulham, and Kensington and Chelsea, to develop a strategy for improved partnership working and intelligence sharing related to Serious Youth Violence.
Read MoreThe Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is the UK’s leading organisation for funding research on economic and social issues. It supports independent research that has an impact on business, the public sector and the third sector. ESRC is one of three core funders of Project Oracle.
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