Category Archives: Measurement

Measuring up: The well-being agenda

This whole ‘well-being agenda’ is a bit of a conundrum. At first glance it looks like a perfectly reasonable proposition, but I confess the more I read the more suspicious I become. Once again we seem to be taking an … Continue reading

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Creative Data?

By Tina It’s heartening to see in short succession the use of hard stats around private investment in culture. However, there is always more that can be done to complement some of the data and to make it more useful, … Continue reading

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KPIs – an Arts Council response

by Jon Dawn and I wrote posts last week on the thorny subject of Arts Council KPIs, a theme then picked up over on Thinking Practice by Mark Robinson, former Executive Director at Arts Council NE. The Arts Council is … Continue reading

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It’ll take more than just a catalyst…

By Tina Following on from Jon’s and Dawn’s posts, I have been thinking about growth for smaller arts organisations and the expectation of raising more income from different sources in the next three years, particularly in regards to private investment … Continue reading

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