Plan of Action for your event: Step 8 Evaluation

The Campaign for Learning will be evaluating FLF and welcomes your comments and feedback in order to develop the campaign and improve the service offered. The evaluation survey can be completed in a few minutes and will be available from September.

You should also evaluate and review your FLF as it will help you to improve for next year! When you are evaluating your event think about what your objective was in the first place.

Choose a non-threatening, fun way of getting feedback. Try not to use a form with lots of questions as this will often put people off completing it and you will end up with very few results.

Be creative! Here are a couple of ideas (taken from organisations who have been involved with FLF in previous years):

• Turn children into journalists. Make the evaluation process an integral part of the event. Get dictaphones or tape recorders and ask children to go around the adults to ask questions about the event. Ask the adults to change places so that you capture the children's views as well.

• Family feedback tree. Make a tree out of corrugated paper and put it on the wall, close to the exit. Supply post-it notes and ask everyone to make a comment, or face on it and stick it on the tree on leaving.

• Smiley faces. Prepare a batch of round faces with different expressions that families can leave at every session they attend.

Use the Family Learning Festival as an opportunity to collect information so that you can keep in touch with your families.

• Some people may be nervous about passing on information. To try and encourage them you could hold a prize draw. But don’t push too hard.

• Ask local community groups to help you collect information, for example University of the Third Age

• Make sure you abide by the Data Protection Laws – find out more at www.businesslink.gov.uk choosing the ‘IT and e-commerce’ link. You should include an opt out tick box.

Now that you have completed your FLF event you can start to think about what happened, what could be improved and what you would like to do for next year!

Remember, we will be sending you our evaluation survey so that we can review how we can best support you throughout your planning process.