Date of event: 4th - 5th March 2010
Organised by: BIG Lottery Fund
Venue: BIG Lottery Fund, Newcastle
Report by: Louise Robinson, Programme Officer
This event was organised by the BIG Lottery Fund to bring together the 17 wellbeing portfolios. The theme of the first day was evaluation, with a presentation from the national evaluators CLES and NEF (who developed the tools) on the first year evaluation findings. This was followed by group work around soft outcomes, social return on investment and engaging people in evaluation with low levels of literacy.
The second day kicked off with an opening speech from Dr Alan Billings (of Radio 4 - 'Thought For the Day' - fame) and was followed by an informative presentation around sustainability and social enterprise in the Olympic Fringe. The focus of the workshops was sustainability, best practice and the portfolio model as a way of delivery.
The event was an excellent opportunity to build relationships with our lovely colleagues at the BIG Lottery Fund and network with the other wellbeing portfolios. It was a relief to discover that the other portfolios are facing challenges with their evaluation too and provided an excellent opportunity to share areas of best practice, discuss common problems and swap evaluation tools for those projects who are not using the PHO questionnaires.
To find out more information about the BIG Lottery Fund and the other wellbeing portfolios visit BIG Lottery Fund's website
