Co-op Foundation - #iwill 1.0 Year Report

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Overview

Please use this form to tell us about the last 6 months of delivery of your #iwill School Transitions project. Your deadline for submission has been shared with you via email.

If you have any questions at any stage of this process, please contact us at foundation@coop.co.uk

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Declaration and consent

The information you provide in this form will be accessed by Co-op Foundation staff. We may also share this information with stakeholders within the #iwill fund, such as The National Lottery Community Fund, DCMS and IFF. We will not pass your details on to any other third parties. You can contact us about your data at any time by emailing foundation@coop.co.uk or writing to the following address: Co-op Foundation, 1 Angel Square, Manchester, M60 0AG

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Background (only update if necessary)

1) How many members of staff/volunteers are involved in directly delivering this project in total? (please enter as a number)

2) On average, how long is spent by young people on the project?

3) What frequency do young people engage with the opportunity?

4) What is the delivery setting of your project?

What you did

5) Please provide a brief description of the work your project has carried out since your last report (Up to 250 words)

6) Please tell us about the number of young people directly engaged in your project to date. By 'directly engage’ we mean young people whose level of participation in your activities will allow you to show some evidence of improvements in their lives. Please avoid duplicate counting. Please enter as a numerical value.

a) How many young people have directly engaged in your project to date?

b) Of these, how many young people have you directly engaged in youth social action opportunities? Please add the number of young people within each age bracket

Under 10

10-13

14-16

17-20

Over 20

c) For how many young people was this their first experience of youth social action?

d) How many young people intend to continue to engage in youth social action beyond this project?

e) Have any young people have disengaged / dropped out of the project to date?

f) How many young people have disengaged / dropped out of the project to date?

g) Why do you believe young people have disengaged / dropped out of the project to date? (Up to 100 words)

7) Please report on the number of young people you’ve engaged to date, who have lived experience of the issues they are seeking to address.

By lived experience, we mean someone who uses their first-hand experience of an issue to create positive change for communities and people who share those experiences. For each strand this could include:

#iwill Bereavement: young people have experience of being bereaved
#iwill Community Spaces: young people have experience of living in a local area where the projects is based
#iwill School Transitions: young people have experience of transitioning from primary to secondary school

8) We’d like to understand how your project is reaching those who need it most. Please tell us the number of young people you’ve engaged in your project to date, who fall within the following ‘underserved’ groups:

a) They do not have access to the services they need (for example, access to a quiet space to work in or having to share a digital device to work on)

b) Their voices are not heard (for example, having low confidence to engage with statutory services, their MP, or to share their views on important issues in their local area)

c) They live in an area with high levels of deprivation

9) Please describe any other young people or members of the community who have engaged and/or benefitted from the project. If possible, please include the numbers of these people (Up to 150 words)

The outcomes you've achieved

Direct outcomes

We want to understand how your project has connected and empowered young people through social action. You don’t need to deliver and report against all these outcomes, but we expect to see that your organisation’s work makes a clear, measurable contribution to at least some core outcomes. Where your project has not progressed against a core outcome, please provide a couple of sentences about why.

Please provide evidence for the core outcomes rather than the theme. For example, “the confidence to set meaningful goals” rather than the theme of confidence in general. Please refer to the guidance shared by IFF Research for examples of how each core outcome might be measured.

10) Please report on your project's progress against core outcomes to date by using the button below.

When completing your outcomes table, please use one row for each core outcome you're reporting on. When completing the 'how you know that the outcome has been achieved' column, please tell us about the specific measure/observation you feel demonstrates the core outcome you're describing.

Upload a table in Microsoft Word or Excel format with the following columns:

· Core outcome (from the table above)

· What this core outcome means in your project's context

· Number of young people who achieved this outcome

· Number of 'other' young people who achieved this outcome who weren't directly involved in youth-led advocacy delivery

· How you know that the specific core outcome has been achieved. Please use the following format:

Evidence type (survey, interviews, observations)
Specific questions asked or name of standardised survey tool
Findings from questions

· Why not achieved (if applicable)

Example submissions for “How you know the outcome has been achieved” for core outcome “feel they have good-quality relationships based on mutual trust and empathy”.

These examples are to show the level of detail and structure of submission, rather than prescribing the content of submissions.

Example 1:

Survey data. Using the SDQ prosocial scale. 50% of participants showed improvement on peer/relationship scores and prosocial behaviours scores since July 2021.

Example 2:

Interviews/Observations. Had one-to-one conversations with 5 participants asking about their friendships/relationships. Most participants reported they had made some friends in the group, and that they had friends they could speak to if they had problems and rely upon for support.

Community outcomes

We recognise there are many ways your project may have impacted the wider community. We are particularly interested in:

whether support, services or spaces are better informed and accessed by young peoplewhether the wider community’s perceptions of young people have changed, and if so, howwhether there are plans to deliver more youth social action projects as a result of your project

11) Please tick the community outcomes listed above that apply to your project and describe how your project has so far contributed to these community outcomes. Where possible, please try to quantify these outcomes rather than giving individual examples, eg if the wider community's perceptions of young people have changed as a result of your project, please tell us how you know this by quantifying or estimating how many people/businesses/services have shown a change in perceptions and in what way (Up to 200 words)

What you learned

12) Please describe any challenges you experienced in delivering your project since your last report, and how you have responded to these (Up to 300 words)

13) Tell us about any learning you have identified in the project since your last report (Up to 300 words)

14) Are there any significant changes needed or anticipated to your project budget since your last report? If so, please tell us below (Up to 200 words)

Budget

15) Please report your actual income and expenditure for the project, against the budget submitted with your original proposal, commenting on any significant differences. (Up to 150 words) Alternatively, you can email a copy of this to sarah.barton2@coop.co.uk

16) Have you spent the total amount of the grant? If you haven’t, what do you propose to spend the remaining balance on? (Up to 100 words)

Feedback

Please email IWillEvaluation@iffresearch.com if there are any young people that may be interested in speaking to a researcher from our evaluation partner, IFF, about their experiences on the project so far. Please note, where young people are aged under 16, they would require parental/guardian consent to take part in the research. IFF are able to provide an information leaflet and consent form upon request.

Is there anything else you’d like to tell us about your project? If so, please use the space below (Up to 200 words) Additionally, you are welcome to submit any relevant materials such as pictures, videos or case studies relating to your project to sarah.barton2@coop.co.uk.

We value feedback and encourage open and honest dialogue with our partners to help us improve how we work. Is there anything you'd like to tell us about your experience of working with the Co-op Foundation? (Up to 100 words) Alternatively, if you'd prefer to feed back anonymously, please complete this form: https://www.tfaforms.com/4704956

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