Evaluation brief: understanding the impact of Youth Music's Fund C grants portfolio June 2016 - June 2018
Job description
About Youth Music
We’re a national charity investing in music-making projects for children and young people facing challenging circumstances.
We believe everyone should have the chance to make music.
We currently fund over 350 projects across England. That’s around 75,000 children and young people regularly making music each year.
About our Fund C projects
Our grants portfolio is divided into three funds - A, B and C - supporting projects of differing scale, scope and time.
We support 13 strategic partner organisations nationwide through our Fund C grants.
Fund C awards are larger grants for projects with a dual role of delivery and strategic work. The fund’s aim is for grantholders to work collaboratively with other organisations and individuals to promote high-quality musically inclusive practice within music education, ensuring that children and young people in challenging circumstances can participate in, influence and progress through their musical learning.
Fund C projects play a significant part in helping us achieve our goal of a musically inclusive England.
What we want you to do
There are two different parts to the evaluation:
1) Understanding our impact (external)
We want you to produce a 5,000 word final evaluation report answering the following question:
- To what extent and in what ways have Fund C organisations made Music Education Hubs more musically inclusive?
We will share this report widely with those working in the music, arts, education, local authority and youth sectors. We would also like you to write at least two blogs for our Youth Music Network exploring the findings.
2) Supporting strategic learning (internal)
The Fund C grants were awarded in January 2015 and last for three years. Throughout the lifetime of the programme, we want to understand how it’s going, identify successes and challenges, including what makes some approaches more successful than others. This will support Youth Music and our strategic partners to learn from each other.
We want you to produce summaries of your findings for an internal audience of Youth Music and the Fund C projects. These should be no longer than 3,000 words each.
The summary reports will address ways in which Fund C projects are helping Youth Music to achieve its aims of increasing impact for children and young people in challenging circumstances, and increasing quality and reach of musically inclusive practice.
To find out more details about the evaluation, including how to apply, download the full brief here.
Application timeline
Deadline: 5pm on Thursday 19 May Invitation to interview: Monday 30 May Interviews: Wednesday 8 June Inception meeting: Tuesday 14 June