Evaluation Results
Funding the Future Conference 12th February 2008

This feedback was based on evaluation forms completed by 32 conference participants. Please note: not every participant completed evaluation forms and if they did, may not have filled in the form completely or correctly, added any comments or given a scoring under every section.

Numbers attending morning and afternoon workshops:

Participants were asked to indicate which workshops they had attended in the morning and afternoon. Results were as follows:
AM PM
1.How Much! Making Money Work  13 4
2.Partnership Bids 8 13
3. Bidding for Contracts 11 9

Prior level of knowledge and current level after session:

Participants were asked to rate their level of knowledge of the workshop topic prior to attending and after attending (1= high - 5 = low). Feedback from participants indicated that levels of knowledge had increased more for the Partnership Bids and Bidding for Contacts workshops. Full feedback was as follows:

1.      How Much! Making Money Work:

9 participants said their level of knowledge after participating in this workshop had increased as follows:

Increase from levels 2-1 (3 participants); 3-2 (3 participants) 4-3 (1 participant); 5-4 (1); 5-2 (1)

2 participants said their level of knowledge had decreased as follows:

Decrease from levels 2-4* (1 participant); 4-5* (1)

*(can we assume scoring was misunderstood?)

6 participants said their level of knowledge had remained the same as follows:

Remained the same at levels 3-3 (3 participants); 2-2 (2) 1-1 (1)

2.      Partnership Bids

15 participants said their level of knowledge after participating in this workshop had increased as follows:

Increase from levels 2-1(2 participants); 3-2 (4 participants); 4-2 (3); 4-3 (2); 5-2 (3); 5-3 (1)

1 participant said their level of knowledge had decreased as follows:

Decrease from levels 3-5 (1 participant)*

3 participants said their level of knowledge had remained the same as follows:

Remained the same at levels 1-1 (1 participant); 2-2 (1); 3-3 (1)

3.      Bidding for Contracts

15 participants said their level of knowledge after participating in this workshop had increased as follows:

Increase from levels 2-1 (1 participant); 3-2 (3 participants) 4-2 (3 participants); 4:3 (5); 5-2 (2): 5-4 (1).

3 participants said their level of knowledge had decreased as follows:

Decrease from levels 1-4* (1 participant); 2-3* (1 participant): 3-5 (1)*

2 participants said their level of knowledge had remained the same as follows:

Remained the same at levels 1-1 (2 participants)

Comments on the additional sessions:

Participants were asked to comment on three other main sessions of the day. Those who chose to comment did so as follows:

Keynote Address comments:

                           

Comments:

12 participants made additional comments as follows:
Writing Tenders /Managing contracts 14 Legal: Employment Law/Public Law 8
Business Planning 14 Full Cost Recovery 10
Managing & Responding to Change 9 Negotiating with Purchasers 10
Effective Partnerships/Collaboration 12 Any Other/s: 0