Impact & Evaluation
The Agency has been delivered and evaluated across the UK and Northern Ireland through partnerships with Arts Council England’s National Portfolio Organisations, businesses, theatres, community centres, sports and recreation services. The programme has lasting impact in a wide range of contexts: fostering connections across community divides in Belfast; helping to rebuild areas affected by gang crime, and post-industrial decline.
The Agency is not a one-size-fits-all programme but a methodology rooted in local voices, it adapts to each place where it is delivered. By supporting young people to lead projects inspired by their desire of change and community needs. The Agency has shown again and again that it can create meaningful and lasting change on communities.
Keep scrolling to read the creative evaluations written by researchers, activists, educators, poets and artists.
Methodology as Creative and Social Praxis
As evaluator and critical friend for The Agency programme, Dr. Chrissie Tiller revisited the methodology - not purely as guidelines for working with young people to realise their ideas, but as a distinct creative and social praxis that seeks to bring action, theory and reflection together to bring about social change.