Evaluating impact
Sport England has developed a three-tier approach to project
evalution.
- Tier 1 - Basic Evaluation aims to establish
value for money and benchmark performance.
- Tier 2 - Focused Evaluation develops case
studies to establish what works, identify good practice and foster
learning and improvement. See below for case studies. .
- Tier 3 - Experiment and Innovation will test
new ideas and challenge conventional wisdom with carefully designed
interventions.
Guidance for national governing
bodies
Sport England has prepared two guidance
documents on evaluation for governing bodies – one on
using the lessons from the Active England programme to help design
interventions and one on measuring the
impact of interventions.
Although these documents have been prepared primarily to support
NGBs in the development of their 2009-2013 plans, they provide
guidance relevant to anyone planning a programme of sports
delivery.
Documents
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Accompanying the Active England final evaluation report, 2009, this document outlines key case studies from the evaluation.
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Active England was a programme jointly funded by Sport England and the Big Lottery Fund that ran from 2004 to 2008. The final report brings together the key findings from the programme.
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This project was about increasing the number of young people aged 14 plus and adults taking part in physical activity, and involved community sports and physical activity workers, a project co-ordinator, and developing five multi use games areas in the most deprived areas of Hastings.
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This project was about engaging the hard-to- reach youth of Bolton in sport , via an integrated environment offering support, fun, social, leisure and adventurous activities coupled with a targeted outreach programme using ‘hybrid’ coach/youth workers.
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This project engaged the residents of a former mining area in the North East of England in sport and recreational physical activity.
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The Wellness on wheels project aimed to overcome transport barriers and rural isolation and deprivation to introduce people to exercise and encourage them to sustain an active lifestyle with a mobile gym facility.
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The Westway project involved creating opportunities for diverse communities in West London to develop their sporting talent and have fun, utilising high quality facilities and an extensive outreach programme.
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This document sets out the lessons from the Active England programme. The lessons are presented against the three key outcomes of Sport England's 2008-2011 strategy – Grow, Sustain and Excel – that NGBs will be commissioned by Sport England to deliver.
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This document has been developed to help ensure that interventions benefit from effective evaluation. It includes guidance on why it is important to measure the impact of interventions, on the Sport England Evaluation Framework and quality standards for measuring impact, on setting up an effective monitoring and evaluation system, and on collecting and using the data that is gathered.
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This report, published in 2007, brings together the experiences of a range of community intervention programmes that have been working in England over the past seven years. It does not simply describe what has happened on the ground, but looks at the impact on the views of real people on what they have achieved and how it has influenced thier communities.
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