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19.07.2024

Culture Counts, Illuminate and an all-important Data Conversion Service

This blogpost considers the background to the development of the Culture Counts to Illuminate Conversion Service. It doesn’t provide information on how to use it. For that, please see the

09.07.2024

Why it isn’t a Case of Step 1, Step 2, Step 3…

Many Impact & Insight Toolkit users appreciate the flexibility of conducting quality evaluation with the Toolkit; however, there have been some questions about the consequences of this. One of the

15.05.2024

The Impact of Delivery Method on Results

Does the survey delivery method affect results to dimension questions?   Introduction The Impact & Insight Toolkit (Toolkit) approach to evaluation supports 4 delivery methods: Online (designed to be used

25.04.2024

Ambition and Quality, Peer Review, and the Toolkit

By investing in peer review, the receiving organisation will achieve a well-rounded understanding of how their work is perceived.   Ambition and Quality Investment Principle and Peer Review Peer review

25.03.2024

Revisiting The Toolkit and Ambition & Quality

A change in season is the ideal time for reflection, and, with the new Financial Year upon us, there’s no better time to pause and take a fresh look at

08.01.2024

Evaluating Place-Based Work - A Research Project

This blogpost accompanies the report on Evaluating Place-Based Work. The report can be accessed here, and we recommend that you read the report to obtain a detailed understanding into the

29.11.2023

Demystifying Dimensions

‘Dimension’ questions are a central component of the Impact & Insight Toolkit.  But what are these ‘dimensions’ and where do they come from?   What are ‘dimensions’? Dimensions are standardised

25.10.2023

Reporting On-Demand

This blogpost provides the background and additional information regarding the Reporting Dashboard.  If you are looking for guidance on how to create the reports and interpret charts, please look at

01.06.2023

Ambition and Quality: Putting it into Practice

Introduction At the beginning of April, Counting What Counts (CWC) launched the updated version of the Impact & Insight Toolkit (Toolkit) to support the National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) cohort in

28.03.2023

The ‘New’ Toolkit Project – Your Questions, Our Answers

Having recently been chatting more about the ‘new’ Impact & Insight Toolkit, some great questions have been presented to us.  Whilst we have responded directly, we would like to share

09.03.2023

What’s Coming Next?

We’ve learned a lot and we’re making changes! Read on to understand the new things that are coming your way from April 2023…   In July 2022, CWC decided it

26.01.2023

Preparing for the 2023-26 ACE Funding Period

Check out the process by which we will be providing access to the new and improved Impact & Insight Toolkit, alongside the gradual termination of the current Toolkit project.