An independent evaluation

Monday 15 May, 2006

"The sheer amount of cultural activity on offer…has been a revelation"

"We feel privileged to have been part of the Evolving City programme and are hugely grateful for the support and funding."

"A highly successful mechanism for drawing attention to, and creating audiences for, the range of cultural activities taking place in the city."

The Evolving City evaluation report presents the findings of an independent evaluation of the Evolving City programme.

Tameron Chappell and Louise Harriss, an independent research partnership, were commissioned by Oxford Inspires in December 2004 to investigate the development of Evolving City and to establish whether the programme had met its stated objectives. The evaluators used multiple methods of gathering information to inform this report: in-depth interviews, focus groups, telephone interviews, observations at events, scrutiny of documentation and project self-evaluations and monitoring forms.