Mainstreaming / Evaluation Toolkit
Charlestown and Lower Kersal NDC has funded around 120 projects in the local area over the last 8 years. These projects have made a difference to the area and the lives of the people who live there, not only in the eyes of local residents, but also in the statistical measures of health, education, economy, crime, community and physical environment.
This difference can be seen to be meaningful and often substantial in comparison with the rest of the City of Salford, other similar areas across the country and even England as a whole.
However, although evaluation shows that the programme is heading in the right direction, the journey is not complete. Information from evaluation should also help projects in their own succession proposals, allowing them to prove their worth, evidence the need, and form the basis of tenders or funding bids.
The NDC Succession Strategy includes both sustaining the benefit which has already been achieved, and working towards a post 2011 vision of continued community influence; being part of neighbourhood working arrangements; and the continuation of the community's role in physical development. The successful transition of individual projects from NDC grant to other funding or income sources, will be a key part of ensuring that improvements made within the NDC area will be sustained beyond Government funding and into the long term.
This Toolkit (PDF 112 kb) aims to link evaluation planning and reporting with the expectations of commissioners and potential funders, in order that any project evaluation work will support and provide the required intelligence for the transition process towards future funding
arrangements.
This page was last updated on 16 November 2009
