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support for Active England projects
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bigwayoflife.com
support for Way of Life applicants
support for Way of Life applicants
bigcsi.com
support for CSI projects
| Analysis and technical team |
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Patricia Horton leads the analysis and technical team. She has a Masters Degree in Operational Research and a degree in Business Economics. There are four full-time researchers on the team and several associates with specific skills that we can bring in when needed. We are experts in designing and building databases and websites. We created a database to map mainstream services for the Local Strategic Partnership in Rochdale. We also created a database for Yorkshire Forward to map interventions that aim to improve young people's understanding about the world of work. We have created websites national organisations like The Big Lottery Fund sponsored programmes. For Sport England we train and support users on a web based real-time management information tool (Value Mapping) for collecting monitoring data. We have skills in survey design and management for postal and online surveys. Projects include a multi-annual household survey to evaluate the Western Isles Better Neighbourhood Services Fund and an electronic survey to evaluate the Skills in Regeneration pack for the Scottish Centre for Regeneration. We can also use SMS text surveys to contact people. This has proved to be useful when trying to get responses from young people. We use GIS mapping to show unemployment and economic activity levels in the South of Scotland as part of the labour market intelligence project. We can use these skills to show in a visual way service need and delivery for other programmes. We are experts in statistical analysis using SPSS. We used this in our analysis of the Birmingham SRB household survey and evaluating UK online centres across England for the DfES. We are experts in sourcing and analysing secondary data. We have established skills in analysing the labour and skills market. For the last three years we have provided labour market intelligence for the South of Scotland labour market intelligence project including annual reports, quarterly newsletters and a dedicated website. |
| News in Brief |
| Spring 2008 newsletter |
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The latest edition of our newsletter has been published. It can be accessed through the News section on this site. |
| Social Enterprise toolkit |
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We have developed and piloted a toolkit to help identify ways to develop social enterprises. Download the Social Enterprise toolkit |
| New report on EU funding |
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Our latest report is on the future of the EU Structural Funds from 2007 to 2013. It covers the context and structure of the programmes as they relate to the UK, and their objectives and target groups. |