DebtAware recently hosted the third Social Innovation Partnership & Money Advice Service ‘evaluation toolkit workshop’.
The aim of the workshop is to help non-profit organisations evaluate the impact of their financial education programmes, basically allowing them to prove that they work on the target group such as students, children or low-income adults.
Being able to prove the efficacy of a certain intervention or scheme is very helpful, as it means that not only will more people potentially want to get involved in the programme, others who are thinking of starting their own programmes will have solid evidence to look at first.
The organisations’ involved in the event ranged from Barnardo’s in Paisley to the Citizens Advice Bureau in North Wales. The sessions went very well and all organisations should be starting their own evaluations soon!