live:projects services: events and festivals

live:projects Impactful and creative research and storytelling for creative changemakers Support for community and creative powered events and festivals

We fuse research and consultancy with storytelling, creativity, and impact journalism to bring about positive change.

A London-based research bureau with the strategic awareness of an agency and the attentiveness of freelance Chris Hayes, Lead Research Consultant 13 years+ of project consultancy. Broad-cross sector experience across the creative and cultural sectors, youth and education, sport and leisure, tourism and place, community services, and local government. MRS Advanced Certificate in Market and Social Research; CPD in Civic Design and Cultural Infrastructure with Bartlett; Social Value UK Member; Social Research Association Member; Local Government Information Unit Associate.

Huda Awan, Research Associate Huda brings a brings a wealth of experience in research and communications gained through working with arts, culture and nonprofit organisations, most recently Open City Documentary Festival. She has a distinction in advanced qualitative and quantitative methods through her MSc from UCL in 2019.

Friends and Partners

Suzie Campbell, The Friendly CFO / Metavalue (Strategy and Finance), Selena Bolingbroke, Sighthound Consultancy, Fran Gkotsi, Creative Schools and Learning Expert, Beth Crosland, Cultural Partnerships and Social Justice Expert. Common Vision (Youth/Young People Engagement Leads and Intergenerational Think Tank), The People Speak (Community Connectors and Talkshow hosts, UndrLndn (film and media collective), Meaningful Marketing (Social Media and Marketing Experts), Freedom Works UK (Community Coaching and Leadership),

We exist to be of service to creative changemakers and placeshapers.…

We are proud to have worked with…

Barbican Kent Foundation Beacon Museum LGiU International British Library Leytonstone Loves Film Common Vision Museum of London Copeland Council Oxford House Crenamic Playnice Creative Youth RM Research Culture Mile Social Fixt Culture Syndicates SoloTrvlr Foundation for Future The Line London The People Speak Freedom Works UK University of the Arts Friendly CFO London MetaValue Strategy University of East Anglia Consulting and Wandsworth Arts Fringe Sighthound Women Over 50 Film Fusion Futures Festival Future Makers Workfinder Goldsmiths Great Speech Writers IVE (Bridge Organisation)

Events and festival audience research and evaluation

We work with and alongside creative teams to document and tell the story of community-powered events and festivals, capturing the stories and data to help festival teams programme and develop thriving events and festivals that align to and deliver wider social and economic goals.

Our methods are creative and involve the talents, practices, and research skills of the artists and partners involved, plus impact journalism, film and photography. Our services can be tailored to meet the needs of events and festivals of all shapes and sizes.

We co-ordinate community-centred research, listening and storytelling projects to help our clients develop a deeper understanding of their visitors and audiences, informing robust audience development plans and strategies.

Audience research and development.

Working with you and your team collaboratively to design or refresh your theory of change and build an evaluation framework for your event or festival.

Training and capacity building

Theory of Change and Framework Design

Bitesize workshops and training for staff, creative teams and artists covering a range of topics drawing on our decades worth of experience: introduction to research and evaluation; theory of change and planning; research and creative methods; storytelling; marketing; business planning; social value and impact measurement.

https://www.slideshare.net/ChrisHayes76322

Observation

Often, the richest, most diverse, and most valuable feedback from visitors, audiences, and participants can be heard at your cafes, bars, ticket and box offices and during your events and activities. When artists and creatives are stretched in delivery, often it is your staff team and volunteers who are best placed to document impact, reactions and identify learning. We have worked with teams to design and create simple and creative live tools for capturing rich observational and reflection feedback.

Check out our Feedback and Observation Journal for Venues and Creatives here

From narrative and storytelling approaches to social value auditing, we are skilled at helping our clients understand and communicate their impact and legacy and tell their stories in meaningful and costeffective ways built on dialogue and trust. We are skilled at co-ordinating storytelling projects, training story collectors, providing guidance for 1:1 conversations, and working with writers to turn conversations into rich narratives that can be discussed and shared for evaluation purposes.

We’ve been inspired and influenced by Arts at the Old Fire Station’s storytelling methodology for rich person-centred data collection, Emma Warren’s ‘document your culture’ manifesto, Helen Kara’s work on creative research methods, the solutions journalism trend in the US, evaluation in placemaking, alongside 12+ years’ experience in research and consulting.

Storytelling

Working with Caroline Wilson and UndrLdn, we can offer complete coverage of your event or festival with high-quality filming and vox pop interviewing for legacy and evaluation. Outputs can include an online archive with short interviews with audience members and artists/creatives, a legacy video and short reels for socials. We have been working closely with Caroline and her network, and share in an ambition and artistic vision to create more authentic films that centre the voices of those involved, train and skill people in DIY filming and research, and weave in audiences and creatives own filming on phones into the end product.

Creative Provocation

Film and vox pop interviews

By carefully crafting a range of consultations and provocations with creative flair, our aim is to ignite ideas, foster connection, and inspire the imaginations of your audiences. We are passionate about engaging people through artistic expression, visual storytelling, and creative methods of public consultation. We are inspired by visual artist and researcher Orly Orbach who is dedicated to utilizing the arts as an inspiring and innovative way of engaging communities and sparking creativity.

Talkaoke – Pop up talk show

We work closely with The People Speak and have found their Talkaoke to be a brilliant way of engaging people at events and festivals, bringing people together to chat about the topics that matter to them, and informing research and evaluation activity.

Talkaoke is a pop up talk show where any can sit down and air their views around the table of chat.

Talkoake is a fun and exciting way to have a debate, conversation or discussion about the things that matter to you. Talkaoke is a project by the artist collective The People Speak.

www.talkaoke.com www.thepeoplespeak.org

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Creative evaluation and storytelling for Wandsworth Arts Fringe

Wandsworth Arts Fringe bursts into life for 17 brilliant days each June, shaking up South West London with an eclectic programme of arts & culture that thrills, moves and inspires audiences from across the city..

Since 2010, WAF has brought together hundreds of creatives in a bold and boundary-pushing annual line-up of cutting-edge theatre and comedy, exquisite music concerts, art exhibitions, experimental performance art, outdoor art extravaganzas, and everything in between, taking place across the borough.:

We are delighted to be working with the inspiring WAF team, helping to tell the story of this year’s Fringe, and providing comprehensive research and evaluation support. Responding to the brief to provide capacity and

skills sharing to artists and creatives in evaluation, as well as extra feet on the ground during the fringe, our research and evaluation work to date has included:

• working collaboratively with the team and partners to develop an evaluation framework and theory of change for the festival • delivering evaluation support and training sessions to artists and creatives (our slides and resources from our skillssharing sessions are available to view as a toolkit here) • co-ordinating comprehensive audience

We are grateful to Huda Awan for her support on this project. Collaborating with The People Speak and Caroline Wilson and UndrLdn on this project has also been brilliant in bringing added layers of creative

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research and evaluation activity during the fringe co-ordinating observational feedback and data collection face-to-face audience surveying and interviewing at events impact journalism and vox pops with audiences and artists a Talkaoke event in collaboration with The People Speak to bring people together around the table of chat to

engagement and community researcher and coach Ken Hettiarachi, who has helped us listen to local audiences and collect surveys. Our research and insight is helping the WAF team develop next year’s

discuss art, culture, dance and everything else, as part of the Royal Academy of Dance’s Magic of Dance community day (see pictures here and film here) • co-ordinating film and video storytelling in collaboration with Caroline Wilson and UndrLdn

while building capacity in evaluation. The team and WAF creatives have highly valued the support.

Find out more about Wandsworth Fringe here: wandsworthfringe.com

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Creative evaluation and storytelling Leytonstone Loves Film

Leytonstone Loves Film (LLF) is a free community-powered programme celebrating film culture and Leytonstone’s vibrant cinema community.

We worked closely with the Barbican’s inspiring Communities and Neighbourhoods team to design and lead a storytelling approach to document, tell the story of, and evaluate the impact and legacy of the 2021 festival and the evolution of the festival model.

This included early reflection workshops, in-festival observation and impact journalism, ethnography and in-festival data collection (feedback from venue managers, an open whats app group for creatives and festival participants to share key moments), and analysis of

audience participation and social value. We created a micro-commission and paid work opportunity for a young journalism graduate to attend the festival, supporting her in the principles of solutions/impact journalism, and documenting two high profile events.

We trained a team story collectors from the LLF network to hold conversations with LLF partners to hear about their events and personal accounts of change. These were synthesised into rich personal narratives by the brilliant Richard Barker of Radiant Circus.

We helped facilitate a vibrant LLF partner meeting in the Barbican cinema to discuss and appraise the stories before producing the final evaluation report with rich story and narrative analysis sitting alongside impact, participation, audience and social value data. The work has helped the Barbican move forward with their plans to create an LLF network, hub and fund to support year around film

activity in Leytonstone.

“Thank you again for all of your work on the LLF evaluation- it’s been a journey and so many people involved. All of the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, people have really enjoyed being part of it, as have I. It has been brilliant to collaborate with you on this.” ~ Lara Deffense, then Producer, Barbican Communities & Neighbourhoods Team.

“I’ve really loved working with you, and massively appreciate your calm, rigorous, thoughtful contributions to our work and progress.” ~ Rachel Smith, then Senior Producer, Barbican Communities & Neighbourhoods Team

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Evaluation support and mentoring to Creative Youth and Kingston’s heritage funded Arts, Music and Pop Fashion project

Creative Youth is a charity based in Kingston, London, born out of an ambition to encourage and celebrate the creativity of young people. The charity enables young people to get involved in innovative, original and ambitious creative projects.

AMP Kingston (Art, Music and Pop Fashion) is Creative Youth’s new project to uncover Kingston’s music heritage. AMP aims to uncover and tell the story of Kingston’s rich music

heritage through a programme of youngperson-led and communitycentred creative interpretations and events (the recently launched Bowie and Beyond exhibition at

Kingston Museum is a key highlight) to catalyse and inspire a wider variety of art forms and projects.

We are delighted to be working with the Creative Youth team as their evaluation partner on this project, alongside a brilliant research and design team who are involved in the programming (Jarek Zaba, Zoë Louizos, James Ward) as well as Caroline Wilson and UndrLndn who are coordinating one of the legacy films of the project.

We are also pleased to continue our collaboration with Fran Gkotsi, providing an added layer of facilitation support as part of our training offer.

Research and evaluation support so far has included: • Evaluation framework design • Mixed methods action research to document and evaluate the project’s Upcycle showcase for three creative installations inspired by the art, music and pop of the 60s to 90s • Audience research and vox-pops at Kingston

Museum to explore the visitor experience at the project’s Bowie and Beyond exhibition A touring programme for AMP is being planned, and we look forward to working with the team and the Heritage Collective to tell the story of AMP and identify legacy opportunities.

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Our tips for events and festival evaluations

1. Bring team members

and stakeholders together early on to shape the evaluation framework and research questions – don’t wait for everything to be in place or worked out.

2. There is no one-size-

fits-all approach.

Articulate an overarching framework but be ready to deploy a mixture of methods and tools/approaches for data collection.

3. Audience surveying can be an effective and efficient way of gathering feedback and works well where there is steady footfall, or people are mingling around. If everyone leaves an event at a single point, work in pairs to collect surveys and

consider self-complete surveys on a few clipboards that can be handed around. Surveys are not always enjoyable for people to do, so think about ways to make them fun. Keep surveys short and concise.

4. Encourage artists and

creatives to think about what actions they can take pre-event, during and after their events to capture feedback. Often the most effective response rates are achieved when the lead artist or organiser leads on their evaluation activity that draws on their talents and skillsets links to the creative mediums they use as part of their work and practice.

5. Often, the richest, most

diverse, and most valuable feedback from visitors, audiences, and participants can be heard at your cafes, bars, ticket and box offices and during your events and activities.

Create a system for capturing observational feedback and encourage artist and team member journaling.

6. Set up a Whats App

channel for your festival event to provide a platform for people to share reflections, feedback, photographs and videos.

7. Use creative research

methods and audio and video to engage people and stimulate discussions on their terms.

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Ingredients for successful community and creative-powered events and festivals

Cultivate partnerships and colabs. Invest time, budget and energy in outreach and relationship building, and good old-fashioned community development work outside the event or festival (ideally ongoingly year-round). Start with your closest friends and allies, weave from the inside out and branch out from there.

Free team members up to meet and chat with people on their terms and settings, have coffees and 1:1s, attend groups, events, network, provide support, make invitations and asks/requests, and help people make connections and join the dots to what is

being or could be planned.

Support and empower local leaders, producers and influencers to do the same and ensure they are properly remunerated for their time.

Progress moves at the speed of trust. Allow space and time for relationship-building and organic network and audience growth. Your marketing strategy (where you will want to blend traditional methods with digital) builds on this relationship-based approach for maximum impact.

Ground programming in joy, enjoyment, values and connection. Focus on joy,

enjoyment, and the funding, money, and ticket sales will follow. Find out what people/artists/creatives/co mmunities enjoy, are passionate about and what matters to them, and create opportunities for them to do and showcase that in the places and spaces that matter to them. Don’t assume what those things are, and be prepared for a period of research and conversation to find that out, or small R&D grants and projects to help them find that out and test out themselves. Dig deep to explore what niches and interests matter to who.

Craft unique moments and experiences that bring people together from different ages, genders and sexualities, ethnicities, faiths, and communities.

Nurture and facilitate authentic, niche, handcrafted moments and experiences for specific audiences, communities and affinity groups. Think about your programme as a network of hand-crafted lanterns coming together to shine brightly rather than a single shiny spectacular chandelier. Prioritise the niche and hand-crafted over spectacle and mass participation, though the sweet point is in between and achieving a balance (and artists and creatives value being part of something bigger). Develop an engaging program of events that offers something for everyone. Host pre- or post-event activities such as workshops, panel discussions and Q&A sessions to further engage new audiences. Prioritise weaving together small unique experiences, each with their own entry points and personalised, handcrafted invitations to

audiences and interest groups. Creative ideas can be expressed and experienced in multiple mediums, places and settings Build and foster a strong creative network of partners, colleagues, and creatives and create platforms for exchanging skills, experiences, and learning.

Create social and learning time outside of events to build relationships and further the exchange of knowledge. Create spaces and platforms for people to explore their creativity, experiment, be bold and stretch themselves.

Take a pride and placebased approach. Create experiences with a sense of belonging, connectedness to home and locality.

Build relationships with local community venues, parks and open spaces, shops, libraries, pubs, and community and faith settings for a place-based approach. Support local venues and businesses to foster a legacy. Cultivate pride in the community by

taking ownership of shared spaces. Align activity with community and street events, markets, and road closures.

Offer entry points for every artist/creative. Celebrate and showcase emerging creatives’ work, helping them establish themselves and creating spaces for partnership and collaboration. Create opportunities for more experienced artists and creatives to support earlystagers in creating a rich learning and career development support network. Create opportunities for artists and creatives to develop new skills in a wide range of specialisms, from production to marketing and research/evaluation. Focus on networking, collaboration, research, storytelling, and other soft skills to boost employability. Think and plan beyond the festival – look for ways to keep the creative momentum going throughout the community.

Support, enable and empower, but find ways to take the pressure off people to produce an output, help them to relax and enjoy their work. Create R&D opportunities for artists/creatives to test out ideas in the run-up to your event/festival without the pressure to produce something.

empathy in the community about social justice issues and causes important to local audiences.

Give equal energy to both the inner and the outer purpose of the event or festival. Ensure the social and fringe elements receive the same energy as the headline activities. Build a sense of community by creating opportunities for socialising and include informal interactive elements between events and activities, such as talks, Q&As and networking, to foster deeper connections and create meaningful experiences. Culture is a powerful entry point to conversation and dialogue in the community. Harness your events and activities to open up conversations and create openings for conversation, dialogue and

Develop a comprehensive marketing strategy to promote your festival or fringe event. Incorporate a blend of traditional marketing tactics such as word-of-mouth, advertising, PR and partnerships, as well as digital marketing tactics, including social media, email campaigns and influencer marketing. Partner with other local festivals, events and activities to cross-promote and reach new audiences.

Upskill partners, artists and creatives in marketing skills and support them to make personalised invitations to their communities and networks.

Create opportunities for people to discover and stumble across art and culture in unexpected places not necessarily immediately linked to your event or festival.

Would you like to collaborate on your next project?

Looking to work with an independent research/evaluation partner?

Let’s Chat

chris.hayes@liverprojectsolutions.com www.liveprojectsolutions.com 07736 042753

More Project Examples

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Creative research, evaluation and storytelling for the Barbican’s community programmes in the City and East London

The Barbican’s inspiring Communities and Neighbourhoods Team nurtures relationships with the arts venue’s local communities to improve everyone’s access to the arts.

Creative Neighbourhoods is the team’s work with the Barbican’s neighbours, ensuring the arts venue plays an active role in helping the diverse ecologies of culture and creativity around us to thrive. The

team’s work in the City of London includes The Imagine Fund, a community grantmaking & support in which decisions about funding are made by the community themselves, and enabling the Community Impact

Collective, a collective of leaders working with communities in the City of London, dedicated to strengthening and advocating for values-led community work in the local area.

The team’s Communities In Residence programme sees the team working with local creative organisations and supporting them to host workshops and activities for their members and communities in the Barbican’s spaces and facilities and learning together how to make the spaces more welcoming for everyone. Current collaborators and communities in residence include: Headway East London, We Are Parable, Accumulate, Phosphoros Theatre, Flourishing Lives, and Babes in Development.

Research activities have included:

and co-ordinating their evaluations of the Community Impact • Overseeing participatory, Collective and the latest community-led iterations of the Imagine storytelling approaches Fund, this time focusing on involving the recruitment listening to the experiences and training of local story and perspectives of the collectors grant’s panel members. The • Community reflection work has helped the team sessions and surveys develop the next iterations of • Depth interviews and the CIC and Imagine Fund, conversations with staff build capacity in the team, members and grow a network of • Facilitating internal and trained artists, creatives and external ‘story discussion community members with days’ skills in storytelling.

• Story and narrative analysis, leading to More recently, we have been storytelling reports and pleased to work with new theories of change.

Headway East London to We have been working deliver skills training in closely with the team to help We also supported a parallel interviewing and story evaluate and tell the story of evaluation of the collecting, to enable a storytheir work with local Leytonstone Loves Film led evaluation of differently communities during, though Festival (see case study various, Headway and the and after the pandemic, here) using a creative and Barbican’s brilliant, including the distribution of community-led storytelling multifaceted exhibition and creative resources and approach involving LLF public programme in the activity packs to local filmmakers, exhibitors and Curve, which shared residents and families (Play creatives perspectives and open and Imagine Packs) and the conversations about brain development of the Imagine We have provided ongoing injury.

Fund, to seed creative support to the team, helping projects and causes led by to build capacity in local residents. participatory storytelling,

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Research and evaluation support to Foundation for Future London and the Connecting People and Places Fund

Foundation for Future London is an independent charity established in 2015 created to connect communities, the new East Bank and its globally renowned arts, innovation and cultural partners.

FFL’s Connecting People & Places Fund was set up to support local East London partners to deliver arts, education and employment programming and creative placemaking, part of the Foundations Programme co-

funded by City of London.

We have been thrilled to work with FFL’s inspiring team and network to help FFL report on the impact of the Connecting People and Places Fund.

Research and evaluation activity to date has included:

• Providing support and training in research and evaluation to build capacity amongst grantees

• Providing 1:1 advice and support to a handful of grantees to support their evaluation and storytelling activity • Overseeing a participatory, community-led storytelling approach to exploring and documenting the collective impact of the fund and what can be learnt • Working closely with Fran Gkotsi who is coordinating wrap-around support, advice and mentoring for the grantees through the ‘CoLab’ • Reviewing and analysing individual grantee evaluation submissions and triangulating impact and learning across the cohorts • Producing internal and external impact and learning reports for the funder and wider public to share learning and impact

The support is helping to build capacity amongst grantees in impactful, meaningful and costeffective evaluation practices, while helping the Foundation to tell the story of its funded programmes in communities, understand its impact and make improvements to the support offered to grantees.

Find out more about the Connecting People and Places Fund here: https://future.london/grant/c onnecting-people-placesfund-collaborativecommissions-2023/

Read our evaluation impact summary here: https://future.london/wpcontent/uploads/2022/05/Co nnecting-People-PlacesEvaluation-Report2022_Report_Digital_19.04.22. pdf

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Research and evaluation support to the Fusion Futures Programme in London

Fusion Futures is a 5-week programme for Key Stage 5 students to support young Londoners to find their creative voice and collaborate with others to share ideas and tackle challenges. he programme helps students develop their communication, teamwork and problem-solving skills and is based on three key elements: being aware of yourself, making connections, and imagining new ideas and possibilities.

The programme is run by Culture Mile Learning and Barbican Creative Learning and delivered by artists and industry partners who collaborate with teachers to design workshops, activities and a real-world industry ‘challenge day’ brief for

pupils from local schools and colleges.

implement evaluation frameworks for arts based learning projects mainly • pre-programme using qualitative methods conversations with the including story collecting. team and artists to create He’s great to work with a theory of change and because he listens evaluation framework; attentively, asks really • support with the design of helpful questions to clarify in-school observation and and focus a brief, responds data collection; closely to feedback and • attending postproduces well structured programme groups with and clear written the school teachers, documents and analysis. I artists, and industry can highly recommend him.”

Research and evaluation support has included:

partners; and • collation of reflections and observations.

Watch the Fusion Futures video here: https://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=hBsBsPjdWUQ Beth Crosland, then Senior Programme Manager, Culture Mile Learning said: “Chris is a great collaborator

and a skilful evaluator. He’s also strongly committed to social impact and to supporting organisations to understand and deepen their impact. He’s worked with us both to develop and

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Social value and impact evaluation for Culture Mile’s Fusion Prize winner, The Pattern cultural incubator by creative studio Playnice

The Pattern, led by London-based creative studio Play Nice and supported by Culture Mile, is a cultural curriculum and incubator for future community leaders, cultural producers and aspiring creatives from underrepresented groups in London.

We provided evaluation and storytelling support to the Pattern team to capture the early impacts and learning of the curriculum and two high profile creative and community projects, Gaia’s Garden (pictured, Photo:

Francis Augusto) and At the Feet of our Mothers. This included social value and impact audit as well as qualitative research and interviews with young people and project partners.

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Across the Road: Proposals for Paddington Green and Hall Place Estate in the context of Westminster’s Church Street regeneration

A Civic Design CPD Project with UCL Bartlett School of Planning).

In 2021/22 Live Projects’ Chris Hayes worked as part of a student design team and with creatives with embedded community working in London Paddington’s Church Street estate to co-design solutions for strengthened public engagement, regeneration, and creative ideas and solutions to improve the public realm

This included a community audit and community consultation, and working with CivicWise’s public realm community engagement toolkit and canvases. Our report is

available here with the caveat that it was produced as a student project under tight time constraints. Below is an extract of the methodology section.

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Collaborating with The People Speak to connect people to discuss health and community issues in Southwark

The People Speak (TPS) is a group of international artists based in London. TPS has 25 years of expertise in helping people understand each other and collectively process the world’s complexity.

The team creates fun, interactive, participatory formats and interventions in the UK and abroad, articulating collective imagination, informing public decision-making and

deepening connections between diverse groups of people. (Picture Credit: The People Speak) The team regularly facilitate community conversations using their flagship format

Talkaoke – the interactive talk show to gather insights about the topics and issues that matter to people.

We are really pleased to • Facilitating short vox-pop continue our collaboration conversations with people with The People Speak, after they participated in providing research and Talkaoke for deeper solutions journalism, building insight into the funder’s on recent project work. questions and topics • 1:1 conversations with This summer, Southwark project partners to Creative Health & Wellbeing understand learning and Partnership (SCHWeP) impact funded TPS’s proposal to • Evaluating the impact of deliver two successful public the events and pulling Talkaoke sessions in together findings Southwark to facilitate community conversations We are grateful to Huda and hear people’s thoughts Awan for providing and reflections about additional research support healthy lives, community, the to this project. pandemic and vaccine hesitancy. These were Talkaoke: ‘What’s Up delivered in partnership with Peckham?’ was held on Peckham Platform, a local Saturday, 17 June, from 1 to 5 creative and educational pm in Peckham Square. See charity, and Walworth Living here for the video and here Room, a multi-use for the photos. community space and café, to help the organisations A Healthy Exchange x bring people together in Talkaoke was held on Friday, their local communities.

21 June, from 1 to 5pm at Walworth Living Room as We provided an additional part of their ‘A Healthy layer of research support by: Exchange’ event, an afternoon for people to • Designing and delivering exchange ideas on health, wrap-around research wellbeing and how to and evaluation activity support one another to heal

as a community.

Through the sessions, people connected with others they might not normally meet, discussing issues and building friendships. The People Speak has built close and collaborative working relationships with their community partners, helping them to better understand the issues that matter to their local communities and building their interest in Talkaoke facilitation skills.

Policy and advocacy research for creative campaigners Policy research projects and support for creative policy influencers, giving a voice to people and communities on the issues and causes that matter.

We support progressive policy projects and campaigns with insight and evidence on the issues, voices and causes that matter, gathered through primary and secondary research methods.

We stand for decision-making that is evidence-led and informed by the lived experiences of people and communities. We are passionate about localism, a thriving civil society, and participatory democracy.

Policy products and services

Our policy products help you to stay in touch with and influence change. We ground our research in: • What’s so (the facts, trends and evidence) • What’s said (the issues, voices and lived experiences) • What works (learning, best practice and innovation), and • What’s next (future possibilities and scenarios).

Outputs can include: briefings, thought pieces, evidence reports, consultation submissions, monitoring and horizon scans, presentations and facilitated sessions.

Briefings: Highlighting the key facts and issues with links and sign-posting.

Rapid and depth reviews: Ideal for those who need to explore policy issues in more depth. An output may include: literature review; review and summary of key information sources; case studies and best practice; analysis and comment; and policy recommendations.

Briefings, reviews, and Green & White papers

Green and White Papers: Bespoke research and/or options appraisals to develop policy ideas and recommendations.

Policy Projects

We can carry out bespoke primary or secondary research and analysis or work with you to provide further support. This might include: policy options appraisals, facilitated sessions, workshops, focus groups or round-table discussions.

Let’s Chat chris.hayes@liverprojectsolutions.com www.liveprojectsolutions.com 07736 042753