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.
A full suite of support and best practice documents, training sessions, case studies and more.
Many cultural organisations in the UK and abroad have already been using the Culture Counts platform to evaluate their work. Here you’ll find case studies from users, detailing their experiences. If you have a story that you think others will benefit from about the Toolkit, best practice or innovative use cases, get in touch to have your work featured here.
This case study is structured in a ‘question and answer’ format, where Counting What Counts asked Rachael from Museum Development London (MDL) questions about their experience, and she answered accordingly.…
China Plate Theatre is an independent theatre producing studio based in Birmingham. They work across making, development, touring and training to deliver their mission of, Developing a new model of…
Many thanks to Right Up Our Street, part of the Creative People and Places programme, for sharing their experiences and insights with us. In particular, we would like to thank…
In August 2023, we spoke with Mathew Russell of Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch about work they had done to select their own dimensions[1] in line with the Articulating Ambitions guidance. The…
This case study focusses on analysis of evaluations conducted by Yorkshire Sculpture Park. It was put together by Claire Booth-Kurpnieks, Research and Analysis Assistant at Counting What Counts, and Eloise…
This case study focusses on analysis of evaluations conducted by Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch (QTH) and a subsequent meeting between Counting What Counts (CWC) and QTH. Many thanks to Mathew Russell…
With thanks to International Agatha Christie Festival for sharing their experiences of using the Impact & Insight Toolkit as a recipient of a National Lottery Project Grant.
Many thanks to Jeff Rowlings at Shape Arts for sharing their results and insight for this case study. This year, Shape’s annual exhibition, Shape Open, went digital and online. Titled,…
With many thanks to Talawa for sharing their insights on using the Impact & Insight Toolkit (Toolkit) across several events in the Summer of 2020. Written by Melise Bicep, Development…
Approaching peer assessment across the arts This case study was written by Becki Haines, Coney Ltd., in response to their experience of the 2016 Quality Metrics National Test (Quality Metrics),…
With many thanks to Z-Arts for sharing their insights on using the Impact & Insight Toolkit (Toolkit) at their festival, Big Imaginations: theatre, arts and music for children and their…
Evaluating ‘Criminal Ornamentation: Yinka Shonibare MBE curates the Arts Council Collection’ The Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) in Exeter is the first cultural organisation to use the new Impact &…