Live projects
Facilitation
Building Health Partnerships
In partnership with: Social Enterprise UK
Topline timings: July 2018 - November 2020
Live project
Commissioned by:
National Lottery Community Fund and NHS England & NHS Improvement
The Building Health Partnerships (BHP) programme aims to deliver transformational changes to health and social care through developing and building partnerships between the health sector, the VCSE (Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise) sector and local people; with a particular emphasis on facilitating patient participation in service design and reducing health inequalities.
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Exploring opportunities to align grant reporting
In partnership with: Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
Topline timings: April 2018 - present
Methodology & process: Facilitated workshops
Live project
A group of funders and charities have developed a set of principles to make grant reporting a shared, more meaningful and mutually beneficial experience.
Research
Covid-19 Response Work
Topline timings: March 2020- March 2021
Live project
Commissioned by:
IVAR-initiated, supported by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, John Lyon’s Charity, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Pears Foundation and The Tudor Trust
Are you a VCSE leader? We’re running 90 minute peer support sessions to share and explore the challenges you are currently facing.
Sustaining simplified funding beyond the Covid-19 crisis
In partnership with: City Bridge Trust, Comic Relief, Community Foundation for Northern Ireland, Corra Foundation, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, IVAR, London Funders, the Mercers’ Company as Corporate Trustee of the Mercers’ Charitable Foundation, The Tudor Trust and United St Saviour’s
Topline timings: Until March 2021
Methodology & process: Research
Live project
In partnership with London Funders, a group of eight foundations, and VCSE organisations from across the UK, IVAR is launching a Learning Review to identify opportunities for sustainable adaptations and innovations to funding processes and practices. We will be capturing and distilling the key features and aspects of funder responses to the Covid-19 crisis, before turning our attention to options for longer-term adaptations and innovations to funding behaviours and processes, and supporting funders with implementation - paying particular attention to the needs of VCSE organisations adversely affected by systemic barriers and burdensome practices.
Learning Partner to the Test, Learn & Review Initiative – exploring voluntary and faith sector relationships with Primary Care Networks (PCNs) in neighbourhoods
In partnership with: Lancashire & South Cumbria Integrated Care system
Live project
IVAR will work as a Learning Partner to the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System, alongside voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise sector (VCFSE) partners and Primary Care Networks (PCNs) in five areas, namely Central Lancashire, Pennine, Blackpool Wyre & Fylde, West Lancashire and Morecombe Bay/South Cumbria to facilitate emerging learning across a range of partners as part of the Test, Learn & Review initiative.
Learning and Evaluation
Legacy of the Big Lunch
Topline timings: May 2020
Live project
Commissioned by:
Eden Project Communities
Eden Project Communities recently appointed IVAR to carry out research that explores the long-term impact of The Big Lunch on both individuals and communities.
Evaluation and Learning Partner to the Community Leadership Academy
In partnership with: Local Trust
Live project
Local Trust has funded Just Ideas and IVAR to work alongside the new three year Community Leadership Academy in a collaborative and creative way throughout its lifetime. The Community Leadership Academy provides a unique mix of support, training and personal development to Big Local residents making their neighbourhoods better places to live.
Learning partner for Comic Relief intermediary funding
Topline timings: July 2019 - August 2020
Methodology & process: Facilitation
Live project
IVAR will work with Comic Relief as the Learning Partner for their work with intermediary funders in the UK to support reflection and learning of their processes and experiences.
IVAR is the long-term evaluator and learning partner for global leadership programme
Live project
Commissioned by:
The Atlantic Philanthropies
The Atlantic Institute is the hub for the Atlantic Fellows programmes, a global initiative to empower and connect dynamic individuals committed to working together across disciplines and borders to advance fairer, healthier, more inclusive societies. The programme supports growing communities of emerging leaders tackling critical 21st Century challenges related to race, health and economic equity. It was launched in 2016 and is funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies, a limited life foundation.
The Evaluation Roundtable is a network of foundation leaders in the UK, the U.S. and Canada. The Roundtable aims to improve evaluative practice in foundations by infusing it with cutting-edge ideas, and by providing foundation staff with an opportunity to refine and deepen their thinking and practice.
Connecting for Change
Topline timings: April 2019 - December 2022
Methodology & process: Learning/Evaluation
Live project
Commissioned by:
Help on your doorstep
Help on Your Doorstep aims to improve the health and wellbeing of people in Islington, especially those who are vulnerable and isolated. The programme aims to work with residents to find solutions to the issues which make life difficult, strengthen communities to do more for themselves and enable people to improve their life chances. IVAR has been appointed to conduct a four year evaluation on the Connecting for Change programme to assess its effectiveness. The approach will be formative, collaborative and aimed at informing Help on Your Doorstep’s future activity, as well as generating learning for relevant partners in Islington and the broader social sector.
Learning Partner to Pears #iwill Fund: Young Volunteers in Hospitals
Topline timings: January 2018 - September 2020
Methodology & process: Learning Partner
Live project
Commissioned by:
Pears #iwill Fund
Pears Foundation, in partnership with the National Lottery Community Fund and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, is leading a dedicated strand of the #iwill Fund focused on supporting the growth of inclusive, high-quality, youth social action opportunities through NHS Trusts and their respective charities. We have been appointed as learning partner to the fund and will be working with Pears Foundation, the #iwill campaign, volunteer coordinators in funded NHS Trusts and partners.
We provide bespoke organisational reviews to support grantees of the Tudor Trust. These reviews take place across England and involve working with trustees and staff of smaller community-based social welfare organisations.
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