Renaisi was commissioned by the Richmond Housing Partnership to carry out an external evaluation of Urban Academy – a lifestyle development programme for young people, delivered across the London Boroughs of Richmond and Hounslow.
This outcome-based evaluation has been carried out in order to support the process of creating a forward strategy for the programme and to help generate new investment.
Urban Academy has been in operation since 2005 and is a partnership based programme funded by a combination of investment from its accountable body; Richmond Housing Partnership, and grant funding from the Football Foundation. The objective of the project is to transform the lives of young people on a number of core social housing estates across the two boroughs, with a large focus on sport.
Quantitative primary data sources have been used to gather information, which has been collated in order to provide a coherent picture of Urban Academy’s history and development as well as the demographics of those participating in the project and some of the outcomes resulting from the project.
The evaluation has helped identifying areas where the project was strong and where delivery could be improved. It has also included practical methods to help Urban Academy make the suggested improvements.
