Evaluating Growing Community Assets
This page tells you more about our evaluation plans and includes links to findings and other documents.
The Big Lottery Fund has commissioned an evaluation of the Growing Community Assets (GCA) investment area in Scotland. GCA is about giving local communities ownership of assets - such as land, buildings or equipment - to improve, develop and protect these assets.
The evaluation will assess the impact of GCA and identify factors that support successful community ownership. SQW is undertaking the evaluation. They began work in October 2007; the evaluation will run until the spring 2012.
The evaluation has been divided into three phases:
- The first phase focuses on establishing a baseline against which social, economic and environmental progress can be measured.
- Phases two and three focus on key factors involved in establishing and sustaining community ownership, and the impacts of GCA, including measuring progress against the baseline indicators.
This document summarises the key findings from the Big Lottery Fund’s first year evaluation of the Growing Community Assets investment area. It is our interpretation of the main evaluation report.
This report establishes baseline indicators for social, economic, environmental and population issues to inform the evaluation of the Growing Community Assets programme.
This report considers key factors for success in establishing and sustaining community ownership, as well as progress towards outcomes.
Please contact us if you have any comments or questions.
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