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Fort Resources has extensive experience of project and programme evaluation.


comments book excerpt: SuperCity, Urbis

MANCHESTER SCIENCE FESTIVAL

Sally Fort is the Evaluation Consultant for this year's Manchester Science Festival. The festival includes over 30 partners and an anticipated 200+ events. The focus of the work is to analyse how effectively the festival delivers its intended content; how the festival and partnership works or could be improved organisationally; and to asses the effectiveness of meeting the needs of its stakeholders. Evaluation will take place through quantitative and creative qualitative information gathering. This year's Festival will include creative consultation and feedback opportunities which will be integrated into the festival's programming.

LITTLE ACORNS

As part of Liverpool Capital of Culture, Sally Fort was contracted as Evaluation Consultant by Isaacs UK to contribute to a programme aiming to identify good practice in artists of all types, working in early years settings across Merseyside. The project invites the artists, staff and children to find ways of exploring the central themes of Liverpool, community, heritage, identity and family. The results of this research are due to be published late Spring 2008.

SHOUT

Sally Fort has been working with Isaacs UK as Evaluation Consultant to a programme of creative interventions in children's centres and schools across the NW borough of St Helens. The project is co-ordinated by local authority children's services, and is part of their wider Give Us a Shout strategy to improve communication in children under 5 throughout the borough. The project involves a range of artists and therapists working across 8 settings over a full school year.

HAYWARD GALLERY - SEE THROUGH

The Hayward Gallery commissioned Sally Fort to produce the final evaluation report summarising their 3 year young people's programme See Through. Over 8000 young people took part in See Through between 2003-2006 and the Hayward and its many partners learned a great deal about how to build and sustain relationships with young people, and how to work cross-departmentally, using their exhibitions programme as a starting point. The final evaluation report aimed to provide a concise round-up of acheivements and lessons learned for the project's main funders, Paul Hamlyn Foundation. The report is also intended for internal and external advocacy purposes.

EVALUATION TOOLKIT

In 2005 Engage contracted Sally Fort to write a toolkit on Evaluation & Advocacy, as part of its Making Connections training programme for gallery and visual arts educationalists. The toolkit is available from engage.

NESTA & NORTON PRIORY

As part of the role of Project Supervisor for Norton Priory's development of virtual and digital interpretation of its medieval St Christopher statue, Sally Fort oversaw the development of the project's evaluation plan. The plan was devised jointly across museum departments to identify which staff would undertake which types of data collection and evaluation; and what the evaluation would be used for. Sally also compiled the final project evaluation report outlining the successes, challenges and legacy of the project's process for funders, NESTA.

BRITISH ART SHOW 6

Fort Resources collated, analysed and wrote the final evaluation report for the British Art Show 6 Education & Events programme in Manchester, 2006. This included quantitative and qualitative information about attendances; new audiences; meeting aims and objectives; the process of partnership working; areas for future improvement and development; and legacies / exit strategy. A copy of the report is available on request.

ART & SUPERCITY

Sally Fort was commissioned to write an evaluation report of Art, a contemporary street art participation project between cultural centre Urbis; street art and youth culture company Spearfish; and a secondary school in Salford. The project developed young people's work on the theme of the urban environment, which was then integrated into a major architecture and public realm exhibition of the work of Will Alsop, entitled SuperCity. The evaluation gathered and analysed qualitative and quantitative   information from artists, project managers, teachers, students and visitors, to determine the successes and challenges of the project and make recommendations for the future. more...

LOVE ON THE DOLE

In 2004 Sally Fort developed an evaluation framework for documenting the experiences of 250 Salford residents involved in a combined artform community project run by The Lowry, leading to a major stage adaptation of Walter Greenwood's book, Love on the Dole. The project included dance, music, drama and writing. The framework enabled The Lowry to benchmark early skills, expectations, assumptions and barriers; and track changes in learning and opinion forming. This enabled The Lowry to document its success in engaging local residents in its work and the impact of the work in changing and improving opportunities for Salford communities.