Impact

Daisi works with over 6000 children and young people, and over 50 artists in a typical year. We closely monitor and document all our projects, evaluating their outcomes and the special impact they are having on children’s lives across the region.

Our evaluation helps us to communicate the impact of our work to others, and to reflect upon our findings in order to inform Daisi’s ongoing practice development.

Many of our projects have their own, unique set of objectives. In addition, Daisi looks at the overall impact of our body of work, across all of our projects and activities together, using the following five key outcomes: 

  • teachers and young people’s leaders who engage with Daisi have increased capability to facilitate high quality and diverse arts opportunities for their young people

  • more vulnerable young people who engage with Daisi have arts experiences which support and improve their personal and social skills and confidence

  • professional artists who engage with Daisi have developed their practice to be increasingly equipped to meet the needs of young people’s arts engagement

  • young people who engage with Daisi have a positive artistic and creative experience

  • partners who engage with Daisi meet their organisation’s objectives for the activity

“The young people’s behaviour and attitude within sessions has changed dramatically since the beginning of the project. They are all far more confident expressing their ideas and sharing with me and with the group. They are also more confident talking with their teacher and communicating their needs and interests.”
Laura Forster, Daisi Artist at Torbay Medical Tuition Service