Age UK Oxfordshire: Social Prescribing Storytelling 2023
In this pilot project, Age UK Oxfordshire (AUKO) and the Old Fire Station, Oxford (OFS) used the Storytelling Evaluation Methodology (Storytelling) to learn about social prescribing work undertaken by AUKO
Read MoreMeaningful Measurement Inquiry – what have we learned?
Presented as part of Marmalade Festival 2023.
Read MoreStorytelling: what we’ve done & what we’ve learned (7 min read)
As part of the Meaningful Measurement Action Inquiry, the Old Fire Station have been working in collaboration with over 60 partners across the county and beyond to experiment with Storytelling. In September 2022, we...
Read MoreWhy have we become obsessed with meaningful measurement?
Jeremy Spafford, Director of the Old Fire Station, spoke at a Meaningful Measurement Inquiry: Why have we become obsessed with meaningful measurement?
Read MoreWhat difference have I actually made?
Why Meaningful Measurement is important
Read MoreWhat we learned at the 2021 Meaningful Measurement inquiry events
How to create ways of evaluating work that takes into account people’s stories and experiences, and shift the focus from the process of measuring, to the learning it gives
Read MoreThe journey to evaluation and storytelling in our every day
At the Old Fire Station (one of the organisations that founded the Marmalade core group), we spent many years struggling with evaluation. We found that conventional form filling, box-ticking and number counting didn’t always...
Read More