To ensure that Spirit’s learning and evidence can continues to inspire meaningful change after Spirit has ended, we have partnered with three Legacy Learning Partners.
Learning Partnership
Pro Bono Economics
Pro Bono Economics was appointed to explore our wellbeing evidence. PBE use economic analysis to help charities, funders, firms and policymakers to collectively tackle the causes and consequences of low personal wellbeing in the UK. They do this by helping the charities, community groups and other purposeful organisations that work every day to improve the lives of people with low wellbeing to better measure, understand and articulate their impact, to influence and inform policy, and to make best use of their data.
Throughout our grant funding, Spirit of 2012 grantees used the ONS4 subjective wellbeing measure to evaluate the wellbeing benefits of their work. PBE has used this existing evidence to apply wellbeing cost-effectiveness methodology to three former Spirit of 2012 grants:
- EmpowHER (UK Youth, the British Red Cross and Young Women’s Trust)
- City to Sea (Laureus Sport for Good and The Wave Project)
- Get Out Get Active (Activity Alliance)
This project is a quantitative companion piece to qualitative research carried out by The What Works Centre for Wellbeing, which brought together practice evidence from ten creative project to draw out ‘how’ and ‘why’ activities support wellbeing, using case study synthesis methodology. Together these reports identify the strengths of our evidence-led approach as funder on both qualitative and quantitative data collection. They set out highly replicable methodologies for proportionate evaluation that can and should be used for many years after we have closed.