A five-year evaluation of the Going the Extra Mile (GEM) project begun in 2016, which further develops and applies social value research techniques. Funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) and National Lottery Community Fund, GEM aims to move the county’s most vulnerable adults closer to employment, training and education.
Rob Berry, CCRI's GIS expert has been working on a project that has required him to map the speed of rural broadband across England and Wales. In this post he shares some of his methods and the early results.
A project that invokes development of a theory of Change and forecasts Social return on investment (SROI).
Report on the impacts, effectiveness and efficiency of RDP expenditure.
Dr James Kirwan, together with Bill Slee and Carolyn Foster (both formerly of the CCRI), completed an analysis of the potential role of new food supply chains in sustainable rural development during the period 2003 to 2006, as part of…
Active Together is a grant scheme from Gloucestershire County Council that seeks to encourage more sport and physical activity across the county.
This project, commissioned by the EC (DG AGRI), created a Synthesis of Mid-Term Evaluations (MTEs) of the 92 national, regional and network Rural Development Programmes (RDPs) 2007-2013, funded under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) of the European…
The CCRI was commissioned by Defra to identify how ‘alternative’ approaches to rural service delivery are developing, what forms they are taking, what conditions are required to make them successful and what barriers prevent further expansion. Professor Nigel Curry led…
In 2011, the CCRI was commissioned to undertake an assessment of the Local Food programme using the Social Return on Investment (SROI) framework.