2. Today's agenda
• Welcome & introductions 14:05–14:20
• Overview of evaluation 14:20–14:45
• What is Social Impact? 14:45–15:00
• Task briefing 15:00-15:05
• 10 min break 15:05-15:15
• Breakout 15:15–15:45
• What is the social impact of your
projects? 15:45-16:15
• Support and next steps 16:15-16:30
• Close 16.30
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3. Quick intros…
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Pick up something within arm’s reach
• Tell us your name…
• your project name…
• and why you have this object
…in 10 seconds or less
4. Todays aims…
• To inform the Trailblazers on how the
Healthy Ageing Challenge is being
evaluated
• To develop the approach to evaluating
the social impact of the Trailblazers
• To identify what challenges Trailblazers
foresee in capturing social impact
• Agreeing together how best we meet
the challenges
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5. Three key
understandings
from today…
1. Trailblazers own their Social Impact
Evaluation
2. Trailblazers need to create a Social
Impact Evaluation Plan, as part of their
final submission for Stage 2
3. Agree where further guidance is
needed from the Challenge.
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6. Big picture overview
Understanding Trailblazer Social Impact Evaluation and
other evaluations taking place inside the HA Challenge
Healthy Ageing Challenge Fund Evaluation
Trailblazer
Social
Impact
Evaluation
Process
Impact
Economic
Academic
Social Impact
Undertaken by an
independent
Challenge Evaluator
(CE)
Due to be appointed
Sept 2020
These types of evaluations are
happening across all Challenge
Programmes
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Impact
Surveys
-Economic
-Academic
(6 monthly or
annually)
Project
Monitoring
(Quarterly)
Social impact is
particular to your
projects
7. What is Social
Impact?
“Social Impact is the effect on people
and communities that happens as a
result of an action or inaction, an
activity, project, programme or policy.”
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8. Many other
things
Many other
things
Many other
things
Many other
things
Many other
things
Many other
things
What is
Social
Impact?
What is
Social
Impact?
Increased
happiness?
Less pain and
suffering? More healthier
years to life?
More
independence?
Greater sense
of safety or
security?
Narrowing the
gap between the
richest and
poorest?
Increasing
social
connectedness?
Ability to retire or
have more
leisure time?
Improving
access for those
who are more
disadvantaged?
social impact can be many, many things
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9. EXERCISE:
What is the
social impact of
your project?
How does your Trailblazer impact on
the social landscape or people's lives?
• Don’t worry at this point if its measurable
• Don’t worry how you would collect data
• Try and build on your Theory of Change
• How might your Trailblazer impact on
marginalised groups or disadvantaged?
• Just give an ‘indication’ (red, amber,
green) of what might be challenging?
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Kristina Slide
As per running order – less shown here
Kristina Slide – GEORGE TO SAY A FEW WORDS AFTER THIS AS PER RUNNING ORDER
Neil Slide
Good afternoon and I’m genuinely please to meet you all at last.
We have set out some aims for today.
Firstly, we want to give an understanding of what’s being evaluated in the HA Challenge and how, a big picture overview, so that you can see how it all hangs together and where Trailblazers fit into this. Also to alert you to some differences across the Challenge.
To start a collaborative discussion and workshop around the idea of social impact, developing the approach, building on the Theory of Change work you have been doing – to start really unpicking how you will be impacting on the social landscape
Then to start to identify any problems, issues, challenges you see with these social impacts. This could be in terms of understanding, how you might approach it, resourcing etc - what do you think will be the barriers to you as Trailblazers of undertaking and evidencing these social impacts?
Agreeing together where we go from here but also with an eye to the next session where we will explore your challenges and help establish how we might over come these (CLICK)
Neil Slide
There are only three key understandings, from today in addition to the aims that I would like you to walk away with – these are:
1. Each Trailblazer is required to undertake a Social Impact Evaluation, which you own but we will be supporting you via this sessions and other, and with help and materials
Each Trailblazer is required to create a Social Impact Plan for successful transition to Trailblazer Stage 2 – once again support and guidance will be available, but you own these plans that set out how you will undertake your social impact evaluation
3. But finally agree what you need to help you achieve your evaluation plan. Further guidance and what we can do as the Challenge Team.
OK, there’s lots more on this later so just put it to the back of your minds for now, because I want to start with the bird's eye, big picture view before we zero back in on Trailblazers social impact evaluations (CLICK)
Neil Slide
I appreciate there is a lot on this slide but its attempt to show you the Big Picture for Evaluation. Or how the Trailblazer Social impact evaluation sits within the rest of the Healthy Ageing Challenge.
The Trailblazers Social Impact Evaluation is here (CLICK) we will come back to this after I have described what else is happening. But I would say that’s the Trailblazers social impact evaluation does make up an extremely important part of the ‘puzzle’ of Evaluation. It will give us a supply a rich narrative on how you will be impacting on people’s lives
2. Next is the Overall Evaluation or Challenge Evaluation, sometimes we write this as CE (just in case you see this somewhere). This is the evaluation of the whole £98m programme. (CLICK) We will appoint a challenge evaluator hopefully by mid-September to undertake this work with the tender closing on the 30th of this month. In addition this Evaluation is made up of:
The ‘Process’ (How well was the challenge delivered? i.e. governance, support arrangement, funding delivery, timings, potentially COVID – the Process covers the Trailblazers, The Challenge Team, and other workstreams
Also the ‘Impact’ what was the difference that was made? (across the economic, academic and social landscape) which you can see Trailblazers will be inputting onto
Now in order to undertake the whole Challenge Evaluation we need to gather further information, other than the social impact evaluations (CLICK) So we will collect periodically, every 6 months and or annually, by survey, data from Trailblazers and others in the programme. These surveys will capture information around economic and academic data we need to support the Overall Challenge Evaluation (CLICK)
We also require monitoring information which is collected quarterly from you and other workstream
So in summary then:
1. You own your social impact evaluation – which is a significant part contributing to the HA Overall Challenge
2. You need to plan for this and the plan needs to be in place for transition to Stage 2 Trailblazers BUT there is support available
3. A challenge evaluator will evaluate the whole challenge
4. We will undertake impact surveys and gather other data such as economic and academic on a 6 monthly or annual cycle
We will be able to give you further details and instructions on this once we have appointed the challenge evaluator
5 .A Monitoring Officer will collect quarterly monitoring information from you
OK, we want to check understanding now on what’s been shared so far so we have put in time for a short Q&A session which Chris will lead
QUESTIONS
Kristina Slide
But what is Social Impact?
(DISCUSS Social Impact)
Kristina Slide
All those are really good ideas; these are some I thought of this morning (CLICK)
Chris Slide
Now a breakout workshop session for you to explore and work on what your social impact- We have some simple principles to help you: (READ)
Exercise: Thinking about your Trailblazer- what Social Impact do you think you may create? And what do you think will be the challenges?(MURAL)
After this breakout session we will have a break and reconvene after this.
Kristina & Project leads
Kristina Slide –
What do you need?
What can we do?
Next session: Look at social impact across Trailblazers and compare and dove tail areas where appropriate. Look at in detail how you might measure social impact. Look at what you need to plan and how this plan might be created.