Do you have a research project planned? Or just looking to improve the way you evaluate ongoing projects? Below are a range of resources from different organisations, including tools, templates and approaches.
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Key research about the sector:
Information about people who live in Leeds, or different communities:
- Leeds Observatory
- Data Mill North
- Joint Strategic Assessment The Leeds Joint Strategic Assessment (Leeds JSA) aims to provide a shared understanding of key health and wellbeing needs and inequalities within Leeds. It includes analysis of the wider factors that influence health and wellbeing. On this page, you can also find more in-depth health needs assessments of each of the most deprived wards in Leeds.
- Social Progress Index The Leeds Social Progress Index is a dashboard showing data from different sources to provide a measure of how well different areas of Leeds are doing in terms of Inclusive Growth, It includes measures such as employment rates, and percentage of people accessing benefits.
Information about the cost of services
Tools for measuring your impact
- Starting to measure your impact (NPC)
- The Outcomes Matrix is an interactive tool for planning and measuring your social impact
- Five ways of wellbeing is a tool for measuring and improving people’s wellbeing
- Prove It! is a set of tools developed for measuring impact in community regeneration
Articulating change
- Information about the Theory of Change as a tool for business planning and evaluation
- Guidance on analysing and reporting on different types of data
Research tools
Other useful tools: