Expertise
Evaluation, learning and strategy
Evaluation isn’t just a funding requirement, it’s a powerful way of celebrating your impact and using reflection and iteration to go further.
As an organised, thoughtful and strategic thinker, I can provide space for reflection, create Evaluation Frameworks, Plans and Reports.
Struggling to articulate how impact isn’t just about metrics? I can help you demonstrate social value.
Project management & development
I can help develop your bids and projects, and have experience working with the National Lottery Heritage Fund & Arts Council, providing expertise in audience development, interpretation, collections care, fundraising, and evaluation.
Time poor? I can use my co-ordination skills to support you and your stakeholders.
Environmental responsibility
Accredited as Carbon Literate, and with a passion for environmental sustainability, I can help you identify realistic goals to support your organisation’s climate journey.
I have experience of writing Sustainability Plans and Strategies, and embedding environmental responsibility within projects.
Testimonials
“It was such a pleasure to work with Mary on the evaluation of our project. Her reflective style helped tease out of the team what was needed to build an effective project evaluation framework. Mary communicated so well with us throughout the course of the project and was adaptive in her approach to gathering, recording and evaluating information as the project grew and changed.
Mary asked great questions, brought fantastic insights and deployed various methodologies to capture the impacts of the project across all of the strands. Mary’s style of working provided the right amount of challenge and curiosity and she gave us time and space to think about our work more deeply. This strengthened the project as we reflected on the successes, challenges and opportunities to improve our work.
The interim and final evaluation reports, delivered promptly, were really thorough. We have taken the recommendations on board and this has helped us to develop plans to keep our project going for another two years”.
Kaye Hardyman, Museum Development Officer for Museum Development North, client for the award winning Roots and Branches Project.
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