Bright Culture has extensive experience undertaking formative and summative evaluations of projects across the arts, heritage, and museums sector, developing approaches and evaluating the impact of capital elements and activity.

As a team, we are currently leading evaluations for several clients and projects, including Norwich Castle & Keep, the Ragged School, The Theatres Trust, Churches Conservation Trust, Gainsborough’s House,  Wildlife Trusts in Nottinghamshire and Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire & Northamptonshire and Heritage Lincolnshire.

Our Services include

• Formative and summative evaluation of whole projects or specific areas of work.
• Designing and delivering evaluation Plans and frameworks, developing Logic Models and Theories of Change to measure outcomes, and incorporating national frameworks such as the Five Ways of Wellbeing and the UCL Museum Wellbeing Toolkit.
• A complete monitoring & evaluation service: from inception to completion.
• Undertaking diverse & creative evaluation approaches, using a variety of evaluation methods, including focus groups, in-person and online forums (using Zoom and Collabito to run video and text-based forums), onsite vox pops, online surveys (using Smart Survey, Type Form and other platforms), reflective logs and diaries, creative approaches, and structured interviews.
• Creating resources, question banks, templates and monitoring spreadsheets to equip
  project teams to evaluate and monitor delivery.
• Fulfilling evaluation requirements for major funders, including the NLHF and the Arts Council.
• Planning and implementing evaluation and research strategies.
• Designing and delivering bespoke training for staff and volunteers in evaluation and
  ongoing organisational guidance and advisory support in evaluation delivery.
• Writing evaluation reports with clear and implementable recommendations.
• Detailed qualitative and quantitative research into current and potential audiences.