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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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…
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…
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…
Updated March 2025 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…
This blogpost accompanies the report on Evaluating Place-Based Work. We recommend that you read the report to obtain a detailed understanding into the work that was undertaken and the findings…
‘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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
Establishing an evaluation framework is incredibly useful when it comes to evidencing commitment to the Ambition and Quality investment principle.