Learning partner: InUnity

InUnity, a Birmingham-based grassroots charity supporting local communities through sport, creative arts, youth development and training, commissioned Abigail D’Amore Associates to help strengthen their understanding of impact and develop a practical, sustainable approach to evaluation.

Working closely with youth workers, delivery staff, leaders and trustees over a two-year period, we acted as a learning partner alongside the organisation - supporting the team to reflect on their work, define what meaningful impact looked like for the young people they support, and build confidence in how they evidence and use learning.

This included:

• Facilitating workshops to refine InUnity’s Theory of Change

• Developing an operational evaluation framework

• Co-designing and testing evaluation tools with the team

• Creating manageable systems for collecting and reviewing data within the realities of a small, busy organisation

• Co-analysing findings to identify key themes and emerging insights

• Co-writing a final impact report

A key focus of the work was ensuring that the evaluation felt useful, accessible and embedded within the organisation’s day-to-day practice, rather than an external or extractive process.

The result was the development of a practical evaluation “toolbox” that InUnity now uses confidently across all of its programmes.

Read the InUnity 2022-2025 Impact report

“We worked for 2 years with the lovely, fantastically understanding, Abigail D'Amore (who I can't recommend enough if impact and evidence is not your forte and you're not lucky enough to have said person in your core team). With funding from UK Youth, Abi's support has helped us develop our very own ‘toolbox’ which we can now confidently use across ALL our programmes.”

Hannah Brooman, CEO, InUnity