The Impact & Insight Toolkit is a project run by Counting What Counts. We work with our partners, Culture Counts and Arts Council England, to provide evaluation tools to ACE funded organisations. Find out more about us, our commitments and meet the team.
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Background The Impact & Insight Toolkit was commissioned primarily to support Arts Council England (ACE)-funded National Portfolio Organisations (NPOs) to deliver against the Ambition & Quality Investment Principle during the…
We were fortunate enough to speak with 100 organisations (yes, exactly 100!) in the winter of 2024 as part of our consultations offer. Something we found that we were repeatedly…
Festivals bring people together to celebrate and nurture creativity – but how do you know if yours truly resonates with your audience? Evaluating a festival’s effect is key to understanding…
What is an API? Put simply, an Application Programming Interface (API) is like a bridge which connects different software. By having this ‘bridge’ in place, data can be passed between…
Author: John Knell Outcome Measurement Since the Impact & Insight Toolkit’s inception in 2019, Counting What Counts (CWC) has been continually working with our project participants to co-create outcome…
The full report can be accessed here, and we recommend that you read it to obtain a detailed understanding of the research undertaken and the findings achieved. Cultural organisations…
Now that we are 18 months into the Impact & Insight Toolkit 23+ project (Toolkit), we thought it would be a good time to gather some information about participation in…
In this blogpost, we’ll explore the importance of adding properties to your evaluations, how they enhance your data analysis, and how they contribute to answering key research questions in the…
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…
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…
‘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…
Updated April 2025 This blogpost refers to the original Impact & Insight Toolkit Reporting Dashboard which was launched in October 2023. This dashboard and associated reports were replaced by the…