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  Self-Evaluation Guidance Notes
Reporting Forms
Sending Your Information To Us
Additional Resources
 
 

Self Evaluation Guidance Notes

Hall Aitken have prepared these guidance notes to assist projects in compiling their feedback. We have designed our toolkit to provide a step-by step guide to everything you need to do to monitor and evaluate your project. You can download the complete toolkit by clicking the link below.

Self-evaluation guidance notes, updated September 2009 (PDF document, 1MB)

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  Reporting Forms

We have also provided the reporting forms you will need to use as separate Word documents. You can type information directly into these forms and submit them as email attachments. Further information about this is included in the toolkit document.

Reporting spreadsheet - baseline (MS Excel, 31KB)
Reporting spreadhseet - progress (MS Excel, 37KB)
Outcome One Report template (MS Word, 150KB)
Outcome Two Report template (MS Word, 143KB)
Outcome Three Report template (MS Word, 150KB)
Outcome Four Report template (MS Word, 150KB)
Outcome Five Report template (MS Word, 149KB)

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Sending Your Information To Us

All your information should be sent via email to projects@parksforpeople.co.uk. Please name your files with your park name, followed by the title of the file, for example:

  • Victoria Park - reporting spreadsheet
  • Victoria Park - before photographs
  • Victoria Park - outcome 1 report

Your FIRST submission will consist of:

  • Your reporting spreadsheet showing the baseline data you have gathered to date
  • 'Before' photographs of your capital works
  • Any Green Flag baseline data
  • Copies of plans or condition surveys for your capital works - if you need to post these, please send them to Hall Aitken, and tell us in your email that you have done so
  • Copies of 'at risk' register entries

FUTURE submissions will consist of:

  • Your updated reporting spreadsheet
  • Any photographs you have taken to show the progress of your capital works
  • Completed outcomes reports
  • Results of interim Green Flag assessments
  • Updated condition surveys
  • Confirmation of removal from 'at risk' registers

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Additional Resources
Thinking About Audience Development, Heritage Lottery Fund. (PDF format, 19
7KB)
Taking A Good Photograph, abridged version of advice from BBC website. (PDF format, 39KB)
Counting Visitors to Parks and Green Spaces, GreenSpace. (PDF format, 2.22MB)
Volunteer Survey Sample, Hall Aitken. (PDF format, 46KB)
Questions for Volunteer Case Studies, Hall Aitken. (PDF format, 28KB)
Working With Volunteers, Hall Aitken. (PDF format, 55KB)

Learning from past projects - example evaluation report
Since Parks for People is a new programme and no projects have completed yet, we are not able to give you an example of a final Parks for People project evaluation. The evaluation reports of a project funded through an earlier HLF parks programme - Glasgow Green Renewal Project, are a very good source for ideas for methods and indicators you could use for "measuring the success" of your Parks for People project. Whilst this project was not specifically working towards the same outcomes as Parks for People projects, it had wide ranging social, economic and regeneration benefits that have been well evidenced through research.
Glasgow Green Renewal Benefits Analysis. September 2006
Glasgow Green Renewal Project Final Report. September 2006

Outcome 1 Workshop Update
On 16th September we held a workshop focusing on Outcome 1 in Stoke on Trent. Special thanks go to the Burslem Park project team, who gave us a great guided tour and presentation. The workshops gave a great opportunity to share and learn from others. It also highlighted the importance and relevance of monitoring and evaluation and the tools available to collect this information. Please click here to download the slide.
Outcome 1 Workshop Presentation
Burslem Park Presentation

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