Create Church Street | The Audience Agency

A bustling London market with a sign saying "Church Street Market" — Image credit: Church Street

Outcomes

Create Church Street: Evaluation Overview and Recommendations

The Audience Agency successfully evaluated the Create Church Street program, demonstrating its impact on community engagement and cultural enrichment. We produced a full evaluation report and recommendations for future activities. Skills development and funding.

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I’d like to say a big thank you for all the work that The Audience Agency did on this evaluation. We are already looking at various ways of putting the findings to use and sharing them with internal colleagues. I am really pleased with the result and impressed with the sheer volume of work clearly put into creating the evaluation.

Dale Thomson, Interim Programme Director - Church Street Regeneration at Westminster City Council.

The Project

The Audience Agency collaborated with Westminster City Council to evaluate a program of artistic projects aimed at engaging and unifying the culturally diverse community in the Church Street ward.

Create Church Street supported residents in sharing their stories through creative projects by funding a wide range of initiatives, enriching the ward's cultural landscape, and promoting arts engagement.

Our Solution

Our evaluation of focused on three key aspects:

Assessing the impact of the Create Church Street Programme on residents, artists, and local organisations.
Evaluating the application process from an experiential and accessibility perspective
Providing recommendations for future programs, potential funding avenues, and advocacy documents to support project continuation.

Project Impact

Two rounds of small grants applications and 29 projects later, the value of Create Church Street is clear. Participants gained confidence, skills and recognition as individuals. Their pride in their area increased because hearing their neighbours’ stories, seeing their creativity, and collaborating with them made them proud to live and work alongside each other.

Create Church Street was successful in demonstrating that creative projects bring people together and provide a space for conversation and communal endeavour. The project was a great success, although there is always a question as to whether it reached everyone in the ward who might want to contribute. To this end, we made recommendations for the legacy programmes.