{"id":368,"date":"2024-06-19T16:29:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T16:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/impactstories.co.uk\/?p=368"},"modified":"2025-01-23T17:43:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T17:43:36","slug":"ambition-for-excellence-afe-evaluation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impactstories.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/06\/19\/ambition-for-excellence-afe-evaluation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambition for Excellence (AfE) Evaluation"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"368\" class=\"elementor elementor-368\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f145aab e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"f145aab\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-210fb75 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"210fb75\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3>Evaluation of Ambition for Excellence for Arts Council England<\/h3><p>Ambition for Excellence (AfE) was a \u00a335.2 million programme funded by Arts Council England which supported 67 arts projects led by 66 organisations across England.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>The programme aimed to catalyse a step-change in ambition, innovation and practice within arts organisations in England. It sought to support organisations, including some outside the Arts Council\u2019s National Portfolio (NPO), to develop a platform for future sustainability. It had a particular focus on digital innovation and forms of practice including outdoor arts.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>The evaluation focused on understanding the extent to which Ambition for Excellence had met its aims and objectives and left a longer-term impact and legacy in line with the Arts Council\u2019s strategic ambitions; the development of strong cultural places; talent and leadership development; the creation of high-quality new work and the building of an international dimension to high quality arts practice.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>The evaluation research involved an extensive review of literature, project plans and individual project evaluations; online surveys among participating institutions and creative professionals; an extensive programme of stakeholder interviews with institutional leaders, creative professionals, Arts Council England leaders and portfolio managers and with external stakeholders in Local Authorities and funding partners.<\/p><h3>Finding from the evaluation:<\/h3><p><a href=\"https:\/\/impactstories.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Ambition-for-Excellence-Evaluation-Report.pdf\">Ambition for Excellence evaluation report<\/a><\/p><h3>More about AfE:<\/h3><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artscouncil.org.uk\/research-and-data\/our-research\/ambition-excellence\">Findings from the published report available on the Arts Council, England website.<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The evaluation focuses on understanding the extent to which Ambition for Excellence has met its aims and objectives and left a longer-term impact and legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,51],"tags":[31,39,35,18],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insight-and-evaluation","category-our_work","tag-arts-and-culture","tag-evaluation","tag-jane-robinson","tag-kieron-culligan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impactstories.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impactstories.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impactstories.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impactstories.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impactstories.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/impactstories.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1653,"href":"https:\/\/impactstories.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/1653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impactstories.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impactstories.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impactstories.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impactstories.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}