Creative Civic Change is focused around using resident-led creative activity to respond to communities’ own needs and desires.
Our evaluation approach has been to support CCC areas in identifying the changes that were most important to them, and developing creative, rigorous and engaging ways to measure these changes.
We started by hosting a series of workshops with CCC areas, using creative activities to identify the changes they hoped to make, and to build an evaluation plan to measure these changes. From these plans we were able to map a series of themes and outcomes that were common across the projects.
The broad themes that CCC areas are working around are placemaking, boosting social connectivity and wellbeing, supporting local talent, skills & economy, building confidence & agency, and unlocking creativity.
We are now supporting CCC areas to deliver their evaluation plans through:
- Co-designing a creative methods toolkit for CCC areas. This includes a question bank, simple creative methods and ways of analysing data.
- Evaluation support through a mix of one to ones and workshops.
- Regular peer learning events, where CCC areas can reflect on and share what’s working, what isn’t, and what they are learning.