Grant-holders Planting Ideas

Published: 5 December 2012

Eleven grant-holders from the Horticultural Work Training theme on the Diamond Jubilee grants programme, “ Growing Localities”, came together at the Guildhall on 5th December to hear more about how their work can be better communicated, effectively evaluated and that learning from this initiative can be disseminated. Media experts, Champollion and the Media Trust, gave top-tips on how to get their messages across.

The programme will be independently evaluated but each organisation will work on its evaluation framework, including ‘soft outcomes’ as well as hard ‘outputs’. We are hoping that lessons learnt and the good practice identified will form a firm foundation to the funded organisation and to a wide audience. We want to learn about what works well and less well so as to improve services and to build up an evidence base.

These organisations will be working with those most disadvantaged in the labour market, including NEETs, ex-offenders, homeless people, people with mental illness and those with learning disabilities.

For a full list of grant holders under this programme, please look at our list of grants awarded in October.