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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At CWC, we always welcome feedback about your experience of the Impact & Insight Toolkit. We encourage you to get in touch if you have suggestions for things you’d like…
We’re mixing things up with the Evaluation Lab. What is the background to this resource? Here at Counting What Counts, we have lots of knowledge, information and ideas about…
How does the Impact & Insight Toolkit align with ACE’s Strategic Framework and what does that mean for you? ACE’s new Strategic Framework If, like us, you’ve spent some…
Allow us to introduce the Thematic Analysis Tool, ensuring you get the most out of qualitative feedback. When you use the occasional ‘freetext’ question in your surveys, how do you…
In light of the launch of the Thematic Analysis tool available in the Reporting Dashboard, we decided that we need to address a few questions about our position around Artificial…
When it comes to evaluation, there’s no one-size-fits-all approach, which is why the Impact & Insight Toolkit was designed to be flexible. But flexibility can sometimes bring uncertainty: Where should you…
Since opening up to National Lottery Project Grants in 2023, the Impact & Insight Toolkit has seen growing engagement from organisations keen to evaluate and reflect on their work. But…
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…
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…
This blogpost accompanies the launch of the new Reporting Dashboard for the Impact & Insight Toolkit (Toolkit), released December 2024. The dashboard has been developed by Counting What Counts, specifically…