Entries by Kirsty Rose Parker

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, […]

We’re hiring

We’re hiring.   Post One: Project Manager Needed, Salary £37,000 FTE, 20 hours per week with potential to rise to full time in the future. Post Two: Project Officer Needed, Salary £24,000 – £27,000 (depending on experience), Full time   The Evaluator is a fast-growing evaluation consultancy, founded in 2017, by Kirsty Rose Parker. Helping charities and […]

Autumn in the 72 Seasons

Welcome to Autumn, our final adventure in nature. This season has an added layer of poignancy, as there is a sense of ending running throughout. Our seasonal seekers were really engaged this season though, there was a lot of spotting and sharing. Maybe they were making the most of the project while it lasted? Maybe […]

Summer in the 72 Seasons

Summer! It wasn’t the sunniest and warmest of Summers in the main. Maybe all the sunshine was allocated to Spring? I think if I’m honest this season struggled a bit more than the others. Lots of people did manage to go on holidays, including me, and staff shortages meant an extremely busy Summer when not […]