Rob Turner, manager at Grant Thornton with 10 years evaluation experience, considers what the recently published meta-evaluation can tell us about the impacts and legacy of the Games.
In the 18 years since the first ever National Lottery draw, Lottery players have raised over £29 billion for Good Causes. More than 390,000 separate grants have been awarded to arts, charity, education, health, sports, heritage and environment projects. In this guest post, Debra Bollan from Contact the Elderly explains how they have used Lottery…
For years – centuries even – the roles of men and women were clearly defined. Men went out to work and, by and large, women stayed at home or busied themselves with the narrow range of jobs that was deemed acceptable for women to do. Since then, of course, we have seen real progress in…
Good news yesterday from the Department for Work and Pensions with the monthly unemployment and employment statistics indicating that we are on the right track. Economic recovery is inevitably a horribly long process but figures like these support the idea that, yes, the economy is slowly starting to heal. A quarter of the deficit has…
Andy Parkinson, director of Consilium Research and Consultancy Limited explains how CASE can help shape decision making as part of modernising library services.
I was honoured to be invited to speak on Tuesday night at the annual World Travel Market (WTM). This is key date in the international travel trade calendar, attended by more than 45,000 travel professionals from around the world. It has been running for 32 years, and has become a huge business-to-business opportunity, where millions…
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