Entries by Kirsty Rose Parker

Site Visit: Wilder Walkmill

The Evaluator is delighted to be working with a new client, West Cumbria Rivers Trust to develop and write an evaluation framework for the nature site, and former colliery, Walkmill in Cumbria. The site is currently used a lot by dog walkers and nature lovers, and has some quite unusual wildlife include rare dragonflies and […]

New Client: VocalEyes

The Evaluator is delighted to be working with a new client, VocalEyes. We are going to be working with VocalEyes to evaluate their Heritage Access 2022 project. An ambitious project working with 50 volunteers, Heritage Access 2022, will support and train volunteer access researchers in a large-scale digital volunteering project that will benefit over 3,000 […]

We’re hiring!

Evaluator Needed Salary £24-27,000 FT Part time applicants considered Hybrid working model, mainly home working with at least one day a week in the office in Barnoldswick, Lancashire Some travel is required, access to a car and full driving licence is essential The Evaluator is a fast-growing evaluation consultancy founded in 2017 by Kirsty Rose […]

New Client; Surrey County Council

The Evaluator is delighted to be working with a new client, Surrey County Council. We’re working on an innovative placemaking project being delivered between a partnership lead jointly by Reigate & Banstead Borough Council and Surrey County Council to put the community at the heart of placemaking. We are following and measuring the process and […]

New Client; Ribble Rivers Trust

The Evaluator is delighted to be working with a new client, The Ribble Rivers Trust. Ribble Rivers Trust is a UK based charity working to improve, protect and promote the River Ribble for both people and wildlife.  We are based in Clitheroe, an ancient market town at the heart of the Ribble Valley, and work with the […]

NRC Approval

We are excited to announce we just received approval from the HMPPS/ MOJ National Research Council for our research project evaluation with one of our long term clients. HMPPS stands for Her Majesty’s Prison & Probation Service and the MOJ is Ministry of Justice. To carry out evaluation work on Prison and Probation property requires […]

72 Seasons; Look Closer

Today we publish the final report of our ground-breaking 72 Seasons project. We learned such a lot and have found a concept project which helps people to connect to nature, and which protected their wellbeing during the pandemic. 2020 was a difficult, unprecedented, traumatic year, but luckily we had a strand of good stuff to […]

New Client; Durham Wildlife Trust

The Evaluator is delighted to work with a new partner, Durham Wildlife Trust, for their Green Recovery funded programme, Healing Nature. Durham Wildlife Trust (their website is here) explains… “Government funding from the Green Recovery Challenge Fund has enabled the Trust to form a Healing Nature project team, tasked with protecting and ecologically restoring important […]

New Project with Existing Client; Jazz North

Jazz North use the tagline, ‘enriching lives through improvisation’ and aim to make the North a leading UK talent hub for Jazz. Their website is here. Jazz North explain “Our goal is to build a strong, sustainable, and diverse jazz sector in the north of England by working in partnership” and they work to support artists, […]