Big Lottery Fund

Since 2005, People and Places has been bringing people in Wales together to make their communities better places to live. The programme funds projects that:

• revitalise communities
• improve community relationships, or
• enhance local environments, community services and buildings.

BIG commissioned Wavehill Consulting to evaluate the programme between 2007 and 2012. The evaluation is considering:

• the success of projects in identifying and meeting the needs of beneficiaries;
• how far the programme is involving local communities in planning and running and projects, and how far this helps us to meet the programme aims;
• how well projects are meeting their own aims and fitting in with local, regional and national priorities;
• the achievements of innovative projects receiving more than £500,000 from us; and
• the overall effectiveness of the demand-led approach adopted by the programme.

We expect to publish the fourth-year report in spring 2012.

Reports

• First-year report The first report from the evaluation, setting the scene for later work. - 1,371KB
• First-year summary This document summarises the key findings from the first year of the People and Places programme evaluation. It is our interpretation of the main findings from the evaluation ...
  - 446KB
• Second-year report 
  - 1,447KB
• Second-year summary This document summarises the key finding from the second year of the People and Places programme evaluation. It is our interpretation of the main findings from the evaluation ...
  - 440KB
• Third-year report This is the 2010 Annual Report for the evaluation of the Big Lottery Fund’s (BIG) People and Places programme which is being undertaken over a five year period in parall...
  - 1,217KB
• Third-year executive summary This document summarises the key findings from the third year of the People and Places programme evaluation. It is our interpretation of the main findings from the evaluation ...
  - 596KB

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