Karin van Maanen
Consultant

I have led the monitoring and evaluation of over sixteen projects over the last five years, ranging from small scale localised initiatives to national programmes such as Music in Detention, and Big Lottery-funded projects. My approach is to tailor the evaluation methods very specifically to the client’s needs. Below is an overview of reports published. Digital pdf copies are available on request.

Feltham Young Offenders Institution
Performing arts programme to engage young offenders in creative activity – evaluation of a programme of visiting theatre companies working with young inmates. Report expected 2009.
Street Arts – The Making
Street Arts programme in Basingstoke –
Evaluation of a three year Lottery funded programme engaging young people at risk in the arts. Report due in March 2009.
AmicusHorizon
Neighbourhood Impact Arts 2005 – evaluation report on the impact of a pilot programme of community arts activity in socially and economically deprived areas in the Borough of Swale in East Kent (2006)
Neighbourhood Impact Arts 2006 – interim report (2007)
Neighbourhood Impact Arts 2007 – final report (published in January 2008)
West Kent Arts Partnership
Making It – evaluation report for a community arts and crafts project for adults at risk of social inclusion across West Kent (report published January 2008).
Blingin’ – evaluation reports for a youth arts project across West Kent, including:
Pilot phase evaluation (August 2004)
Interim evaluation (January 2006)
Final report (January 2008).
Music in Detention (MiD)
Music activities in Immigration Removal Centres – three yearevaluation of a new Paul Hamlyn Foundation funded project with asylum seekers detained in IRCs. First interim report published summer 2008.
The Chart Partnership
Three year community development programme in areas of Medway – final evaluative report for AmicusHorizon Group, Moat Housing and Hythe Housing, assessing the impact and sustainability of this externallly funded programme and the community development officer post incorporated in the programme. Report published December 2007.
Loop Dance Company and Medway Council
Dance & Literacy project in three primary schools in Medway – Evaluation of the impact on literacy learning and teaching in participating schools. (March – July 2007).
Music for Change/Stour Valley Arts
Music and visual arts activities with young people from Gravesend and unaccompanied young asylum seekers – Evaluation of a six week project at Stour Valley Arts forest base, where young people created musical instruments from materials found in the woods, and created music and a performance. They worked with African musicians from Music for Change and a wood sculptor (May - July 2007).
National Youth Theatre
Young fathers in prison -evaluation of a drama project with young fathers incarcerated in Rochester Young Offenders Institute (April - July 2007.)
Synergy Theatre Project
Tagged to a Number – evaluation of a crime prevention drama project involving ex-offenders, targeting young people at risk in schools in inner city areas in London (January – May 2007).
Sound Connections (London Youth Music Action Zone)
Fuse–evaluation report of a one year, accredited music programme for young people at risk of offending in Southwark in London (2006)
East Kent Local Authority Arts Partnership/Loop Dance Company
Scoping review of contemporary dance provision in East Kent (2006)
Synergy Theatre Project
Elmina’s Kitchen – evaluation of a performing arts project with inmates in HMP Brixton. Written on behalf of Anne Peaker Centre for Arts in Criminal Justice (2006)
Gulbenkian Theatre
Involve to evolve – interim report on a two-year audience development programme for children and young people (2006)
Involve to evolve – final report on a two-year audience development programme for children and young people (2007)
Norfolk Arts Partnership
The Arts and Youth Justice:
Towards a strategy for Norfolk. Report commissioned by Norfolk Arts Partnership
for Norfolk County Council, Norfolk Youth Offending Team and Connexions Norfolk (2006)
Southern Housing/Arts & Business/Anne Peaker Centre
Street Space – evaluation of a community arts project involving young people at risk of offending creating a community garden for older people, disabled people and single parent families all living on a mixed tenure housing estate in a deprived area of Ashford (2005)
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