Inspiring Futures final report – technical appendix

Summary

Youth Futures Foundation and BBC Children in Need funded Cordis Bright to independently evaluate the Inspiring Futures programme.

This technical appendix, which should be read in conjunction with the full final evaluation reports of Inspiring Futures, provides:

• a breakdown of the research questions including sub-questions which were co-developed in the scoping phase of the evaluation with key programme stakeholders
• a summary of the evaluation methodology
• a breakdown of the projects funded by Inspiring Futures
• analysis of quantitative monitoring data provided by grantees which received funding from Inspiring Futures
• additional analysis on grantees’ approaches to measuring impact
• key definitions

Evaluation approach

The evaluation focused on:

1. the implementation of Inspiring Futures and how it responded to the needs, challenges and opportunities presented by the COVID-19 pandemic
2. the differences made by Inspiring Futures;
3. learning for the future.

The evaluation was launched in December 2020 and final evaluation outputs were produced by March 2023.

Further outputs

This report can be read in conjunction with the following outputs, which provide more detail on the findings included in this report:

• Technical appendix – presents the analysis of secondary monitoring report data collected by BBC CIN and YFF as part of Inspiring Futures.
• Deep-dive case studies
• Impacts of COVID-19 report – specific evaluation findings
  relating to the impacts of COVID-19 for children and young people’s pathways to employment and the grantees who support them.
• Tailored summary reports for: (1) practitioners and frontline
  organisations; (2) strategic stakeholders, funders, commissioners and policymakers; and (3) children and young people.