Blog
Curious to learn more about evaluation and what it can do for you? Counting What Counts regularly publishes blog posts on topics we know you’ll find interesting and useful. Scroll through some of our past articles below.
Adding Value to Your Peer Surveys
If you’ve read our Strategic Development Strand report, you'll know that we have big plans for developing peer review within the Impact & Insight Toolkit. The Peer Matching Resource going live is just the beginning! We will be collaborating with...
The Impact & Insight Toolkit Peer Matching Resource is now live
Peer review is a vital element of the Impact & Insight Toolkit, enabling organisations to understand how their work is perceived within their artform or specialist field (for more details see our updated peer review guidance). To help support the...
Embracing Peer Review in the Arts and Cultural Sector
What is peer reviewing? Peer reviewing is an important element of an evaluation process; it involves gathering feedback on the work you are producing from peers in your sector. A peer can be anyone who has relevant knowledge in a certain field of work. Peer reviewers...
Using Self-Assessment in your Impact & Insight Toolkit Evaluations
We have now launched the Impact & Insight Toolkit, available to all Arts Council England’s National Portfolio Organisations and Sector Support Organisations. Our next step will be working closely with creative practitioners across the sector to help everyone...
Helping you connect with peers – Coming Soon
NPOs who attended the Impact and Insight Toolkit induction sessions will know that many of you were interested in our plans to help you identify and select peers using a new feature in the Culture Counts platform that we’re going to launch in the coming weeks. The...
Rolling out the Impact & Insight Toolkit
At Counting What Counts we’ve been busy preparing for the launch of the Impact & Insight Toolkit and are excited to begin our partnership with the 347 ACE funded organisations that have registered for the Toolkit, including 71 Band 1 organisations. Since the start...
Lakeland Arts: The Radev Collection, The Nuisance of Landscape & Emilie Taylor
‘One event is interesting, after two or three you start to see a trend’- Jeanette Edgar, Lakeland Arts In theory at least, as with other big data applications, the more data points an organisation starts to generate over a given period, both in terms of the range of...
Understanding the value of your work
Our Impact & Insight Toolkit will help organisations understand how well their intentions for their work aligns with the experiences of their peers and the public. John Knell, from Counting What Counts, reflects on why the Toolkit is so important and what it means...
Introducing: The Digital Culture Network
Thank you to the Arts Council for the blog post below. We're creating a new resource for the sector to help organisations get the right advice on digital technology - The Digital Culture Network. Brighton Digital Festival 2017: Casting Out the Self by Dominic...
How libraries are leading the way with diversity
Thank you to the Arts Council for the blog post below. Sue Williamson, our Director, Libraries and Birmingham, looks at how the libraries we have welcomed into our National Portfolio are championing diversity, while re-defining what a library is, and what it can be....