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03.07.2025

Participation and Priorities: National Lottery Project Grants and the Toolkit

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

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

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

08.01.2024

Evaluating Place-Based Work - A Research Project

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

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

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

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

13.12.2022

The Ambition & Quality Investment Principle ‘All Wrapped Up’ in the Toolkit

Whilst Christmas it not yet upon us, Counting What Counts (CWC) already has its eyes firmly on the New Year, and we want to share with you exciting news about

07.07.2021

Making a question 'Required'

When designing your surveys, you can opt to make a question ‘required’.  If you choose to make a question ‘required’, the respondent will not be able to progress through the