Isle of Wight Children’s Fund – 2007
The Children's Fund is money from the Department for Education and Skills to enhance existing preventative services to improve the lives of children and young people aged between 5 to 13 years who are at risk of not fulfilling their potential. This piece of work evaluates the effectiveness and impact of services on the Isle of Wight, as well as supporting them to better deliver the Every Child Matters outcomes. The key to delivering this piece of work is to view all stakeholders as active partners in the process. While a thorough evaluation of existing monitoring and evaluation data will be undertaken, the emphasis will be on talking with children and young people and their families, partner organisations, and Children’s Fund staff to identify their experience of present services.

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Enabling Education Network (EENET), October 2006
EENET celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2006. As the network entered its second decade, one of its principle financial supporters commissioned an evaluation of the network to review EENET’s development as a network from 2000 to 2005, assess the scope and impact of its work, and to make recommendations for EENET’s future priorities and sustainability. For the report five main sources of information were used: a questionnaire completed by users, focus group sessions – three sessions with southern educators in East Africa and one session with northern INGO users/supporters in the UK; telephone and face-to-face interviews; and an examination of its resources, website and data collected by the staff.

Greenwich and Lewisham Young People’s Theatre (GLYPT), October 2005
One of GLYPT’s key areas of work is working with refugee and asylum seeking children and young people, which is initiated and managed through their VOICES Project. GLYPT won the tender for an East of England Regional Assembly (EERA) project, ‘Moving Here’, (funded by the Home Office Challenge fund), and between February and July 2005 it undertook to design, produce and deliver a theatre and video project for primary schoolchildren to “…improve young people’s perceptions and knowledge in relation to refugee integration and to counter negative images and racist attitudes.” The evaluation and report consisted of attending a number of training sessions, meeting with co-ordinators and the facilitation team, reviewing the resources produced and interviewing teachers and young people that participated in the project.

Save the Children UK (SCUK) Youth Education Project, February 2005 
SCUK’s youth education team was part-funded by a Department for Education and Skills (DfES) grant over a number of years. At the end of the funding, the DfES asked the youth team to undertake a self-assessment of its work. The reporting took the form of meeting with and interviewing youth team members, reading and assessing documents, and identifying evidence to fit the DfES’s self-assessment criteria.