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An evaulation of the Growing Community Assets programme
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- Tuesday, 04 August 2009 10:05 Tamsin Morris Hits: 641
The Big Lottery Fund have published a first stage evaluation of their Growing Community Assets (GCA) funding programme.
The evaluation was done by SQW Consulting and contains their findings from the first stage of the review, which took place between November 2007 and March 2009. This first phase of the evaluation is primarily focused on establishing a baseline, so that the effects of the GCA programme can be measured over time. However, some preliminary conclusions are drawn from the case studies which were looked at during the evaluation. These include the suggestion that the GCA approvals process is much longer than other funding streams, with the risk that associated match funding might be lost whilst applicants wait for decisions. Consideration is also given to whether or not the purchase of an asset is essential for effective community regeneration, which is a question that the researchers want to investigate in later stages of the evaluation. You can read the full report here.
