Getting to Grips with Monitoring & Evaluation & the Community Insight Tool, 17 November 2015

We want voluntary and community action to have the greatest possible impact on people in our local area. We put in place the support and networks that make it happen.

Community Works

Trainers: Paul Bramwell, training consultant and Kate Gilchrist, Public Health This half-day course is a back to basics for anyone who is involved in or new to monitoring and evaluation, or who wants a refresher to improve the quality of their work. It will also include a demonstration of the <a href="http://brighton-hove.communityinsight.org/" target="_blank">Community Insight Tool</a>, which allows you to find, explore and use a wide range of facts and figures at different geographic levels for Brighton & Hove. By the end of the course you will be able to: 
<ul>
<li>Measure success against the aims and objectives of your organisation;</li>
<li>Set a baseline against which to monitor and evaluate future work and use the Community Insight Tool to help you do this;</li>
<li>Set and measure outputs, outcomes and milestones;</li>
<li>Use different qualitative and quantitative monitoring techniques;</li>
<li>Use the information you have gathered to critically evaluate your work;</li>
<li>Begin to convince funders and commissioners of the added value of your work.</li>
</ul>
 Techniques covered will include record keeping, questionnaires / evaluation forms, focus groups, interviewing and other participatory methods of collecting information about your activities / services. There will also be an opportunity to talk about building relationships with your funders.
 
Who is this course for? This training is aimed specifically at groups: 
<ul>
<li>With an income of under £35,000 and who are receiving a grant through the Community Health Fund and/or who are delivering health and well-being activities</li>
<li>We will prioritise those groups whose health and well-being activities support LGBT people, people from BME communities or older people (including intergenerational work)</li>
</ul>
 
The same course is running on <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/getting-to-grips-with-monitoring-evaluation-the-community-insight-tool-tickets-18202689735">Thursday 10 March 2016 9.30-1.00pm</a> if you cannot make this date. Cancellations If you wish to cancel your place, please give us as much notice as possible so that we can offer it to somebody else. For further information please see our <a href="http://bhcommunityworks.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Terms-and-conditions-Community-Works-November-2014.pdf" target="_blank">Full Terms and Conditions</a>. Further Information If you have any questions please get in touch with us on 01273 234023 or email <a href="mailto:training@bhcommunityworks.org.uk" target="_blank">training@bhcommunityworks.org.uk</a>.