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I just wanted to share the Together Fund final report for anyone who hasn't seen it. I'll paste the full text from the email and attach the documents.
Dear Together Fund partner,
We are pleased to say that the final Evaluation Report for the Together Fund programme is now ready for sharing, and is attached for your information.
This is the culmination of a lot of work from a lot of people over a long period, so we want to start by saying how much we appreciate all of your efforts to get to this point. Your contributions to this work have been fantastic, and we now have a brilliant report that has done a great job of capturing the achievements of the programme – not an easy job considering the richness of the data we captured and the many different approaches taken by the partners involved.
We now welcome and encourage you to share this report with your communities and your own partners, including your internal stakeholders – there is a lot to shout about and celebrate within this report, and much that we want to be able to take forward into our future work and in to our future relationships with our partners.
The attached documents include the following:
- A copy of the full report from Renaisi, with a foreword from Viveen Taylor, our Executive Director for this programme.
- A word version of the report with an additional foreword page included, that you can use to insert your own reflections in to the report for your own use.
- A deck of slides that summarise the main talking points from the report, and that can be used in your own work to talk about and reflect on the programme. We have attached a .pdf copy of the slides here, but the larger Powerpoint deck can be found in the Together Fund Network Teams channel here -
- A template document for your own reflections on the report, and on the programme as a whole. We would welcome and encourage you to complete and share these reflections on the Teams channel so that we can include them when we share the report externally.
As Viveen says in her foreword, ‘I believe that the Together Fund has been one of the most successful pieces of work I have been involved in at Sport England. We know both anecdotally and from the contents of the report that we achieved our objectives along with some unintended consequences too, leaving a better and more connected sector that is helping us build on a way of working which has changed so many lives for the better. It’s also reassuring to know that we have created the movement that our strategy intended - a movement that we continue to build as we capitalise on the learning to implement what we know works best.’
We also wanted to thanks Renaisi for their work on this report over the past few years. This has been a complex and nuanced programme to evaluate, and they have done a great job of capturing the richness of our learning from across all our partners. They have provided their own reflections on the programme below:
‘The Together Fund is a proof of concept that it is possible to coordinate a national system around accessible funding for inclusive grassroots sport and physical activity. Through a theory-based systems evaluation, Renaisi explored the powerful role that investment partners can play in connecting and unlocking the strengths that exist in a place. The evaluation showed that by providing proportionate support for grassroots organisations and trusting their expertise in local communities, models like Together Fund can contribute towards tackling inequalities on the ground.’
We hope you enjoy reading the reports attached, and encourage you to share your own reflections on the Teams channel. We will be publishing these reports over the next few weeks, so it would be great if we had some reflections from you to include in this as well.
For now though, thank you again for all your hard work to get to this point, it has been a pleasure working with you all, and we look forward to continuing our close partnerships with you in the future.
Many thanks,
The Together Fund team
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