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Youth Moves Our Impact Journey
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The story of our impact journey
How has our evidence and impact measurement changed over the last 14 years?
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Alistair Dale
Youth Moves Manager
0773 664 0936
Twitter @InfoYouthmoves
Facebook Youth Moves Youth Moves Community Space Challenge
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Youth Moves background
Youth Work organisation
Based at The Park, former secondary school for Knowle West
Work with young people aged 8-25 years old
Provide services across South Bristol
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Youth Moves in numbers
Work with approx 1100 young people every year
Turnover approx £250k per year
Core staff team of10 (7 FTE)
Regular casual pool of 10 staff
Plus adult volunteers, student youth workers, and young people on leadership training
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Services we deliver
Youth Opinions – Youth Voice
Positive Activities – Urban Escape, Music Recording Studio, Sports
Education Support Programmes – SBY Consortium
Leadership/ Social Action and NCS
Youth Clubs
Targeted Support Work
Breakthrough Mentoring
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So we deliver lots, so what…..?
How do we know we are making a difference?
What can we measure?
Lies, damn lies and statistics
Whose impact is it anyway?
What can we claim credit for/ be attributed to the work we deliver?
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Can you provide the Rainbow?
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Initial challenges in 2001
How do you measure a relationship strategy?
How do you measure things that haven’t happened?
What best practice is out there that we can learn from other youth work projects?
How do we collect the evidence?
What difference does it make?
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The Positive Futures years
Part of a family of over 100 projects nationally
Overseen by Catch 22
Substance research agency & Views platform
Training provided, best practice shared
Bench-marking provided (RAG+)
Framework for evaluation provided
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The Positive Futures years
Annual Report (cost saving to society of £2.5m!)
Qualitative and Quantitative measures
Use of local statistics
Identification of target groups
Partner feedback
Case studies
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The economic crisis and austerity
Reduction in main grants and traditional funding Local Authority Central Govt Home Office to PCC
Difficulty in funding core costs particularly
Need for creative approaches
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The plate-spinning years!
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Our new impact challenges
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Negotiating the maze – where to start?
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Sesame Street or what do all these mean?! Outcomes Star
Theory of Change
Logic Model
Randomised Control Trial or RCT
SDQ/ CES/ JET/ ARSE
Answers can be found at the Inspiring Impact Hub
Measuring Up tool
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Do we make our own luck?
Financial squeeze increasing (“Treading water whilst putting on clothes”)
Struggling to cover core costs from myriad smaller funding streams, using reserves
Adapting and innovating (Wallace & Gromit the Wrong Trousers)
Banksy artwork in Bristol – wrong youth club for us!
Contact from NPC re funding opportunity
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The Impact/ Evidence virtuous circle
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Our Current Position
Developing a Theory Of Change
Looking for partnerships and new opportunities for research and evidence-based approaches
Using our evidence to build supporters/ champions
Working with data rich partners (e.g. schools)
Building more time into measuring our impact
The use of Social Media?
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Closing thoughts…
Start now and do something!
Use a range of methods
Make it as easy as possible for your staff team
Value the process and make time for it
Embrace all results both positive and negative
Look out for unexpected results, they may be your best
Use national tools and share your findings
Love a data geek!
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Any Questions?
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Urban Escape
Our RoundhouseForest School and Arts Trails
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ParkourOur Parkour arena!
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Leadership and Social ActionSnow Camp with Jenny Jones Social Action
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Celebrating SuccessAmbition National Volunteer of the Year
Schools work involving the community