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WEA YMCA CC Cymru

Learn about the merger between WEA Cymru and YMCA Wales Community College and how they measure and evidence their impact. This case study explores their flexible approach, policy areas influenced, and tools used to gather impact data.

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WEA YMCA CC Cymru

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  1. WEA YMCA CC Cymru Case study : Measuring and evidencing impact September 2015 Maggi Dawson (former CEO of WEA Cymru)

  2. WEA YMCA CC Cymru • Merger between WEA Cymru and YMCA Wales Community College on 1st August 2015 • Offers mainly accredited courses in community and workplace • Targets those with challenges • Over 20,000 learners across Wales • High success rates and quality profile

  3. Negotiated learning • Use of development workers • Use of partners to identify need and sometimes deliver • Courses from pre-entry to level 4/5 • Impact therefore changes according to what learner or partner wants • Key is flexibility and responsiveness

  4. Policy areas we affect/influence • Skills and the economy • Employability • Working with employers and TUC • Community development and active citizenship • Poverty reduction and welfare rights • Community cohesion (Home Office) • Health and well being/older people/ mental health • Community focused schools/family learning • Youth services • Tenants participation

  5. Why gather impact data? • Part of quality controls : to constantly improve our service and make sure we actually do what we say we do. • Are we really making a difference and focusing on hardest to reach? • Testing the strategic aims/VFM • Job satisfaction • Test : are we gathering the right data?

  6. What we measure (draft) • Learners will have developed their skills (e.g. communication, team-working, employability) as a result of participating in learning • Learners will experience greater wellbeing, independence, voice and control through participating in learning • The learning experience will enable/support progression to further learning, employment or voluntary work

  7. What we measure (cont.) • The learning experience will stimulate community participation and active citizenship • Learners with additional learning needs will be supported to complete their course of study Initial set of indicators and tools : My Learning Journey form, tutor evaluations, learner forums, project outcomes

  8. Other tools to measure impact • Evaluations – external largely • Case studies • Research projects/ research post/PhD • Collaborative projects using their tools eg housing associations, health related organisations, youth workers, community workers, Regional Partnerships data, JCP, RARPA etc • Visits/face to face meeting learners/learner forums

  9. How we sustain quality and improve learner experience • Be open to change. • Question own methods and sometimes what is demanded by funders • Core aims and values are the main driver not just the pursuit of targets • Use the limited funding for delivery of core aims and work collaboratively – agree who does what best

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