Sam-Culture

sam-culture is an evaluation and insight consultancy that works with culture, arts and heritage organisations and foundations – people who want to make a difference. We work with associates with track record expertise in audiences, diversity and strategic thinking in culture, arts and heritage. Our insights, robust evidence and new perspectives support clients through projects, evaluations, re-thinking organisational development and change - balancing vision, ambition and ideas with a realism about delivery, resources and future needs, to address challenges and find ways forward. Evaluation Our Story of change, evaluation plans and frameworks define your vision and how you will turn this into reality - actions and outcomes. We make evaluation a learning experience to help you understand what difference you make. - What actions made that difference? - Who did it matter to, and why? - What does this mean for your organisation and your funders? - What have you learnt and how can you use this to do things differently next time? - We tell your story - insight-led / collaborative / bringing in different voices / lived experience. Our reflective listening and thinking supports strategic direction: organisations recognise what they do well and how they could increase impact. Strategic Development to Inform Investment - National Lottery Heritage Fund Strategic Framework 4 Review of heritage grant evaluations - Jerwood Arts: evaluation of programmes to inform future investment - Clore Leadership Foundation: embedding evaluation to improve organisational performance - Croydon Council: input into London Borough of Culture 2023 bid and Cultural Strategy - ACE: Horizon: impacts of new models of showcases for Edinburgh Festival and Battersea Arts Centre - AMA evaluations of CPD programmes: leadership, digital and diversity - Leicester Curve: Evaluation of The Color Purple tour - engaging diverse communities. Audience & people come first. Who is and isn't represented.