Measuring Impact - Nicva

Acknowledgements
NCVO – Susan Wainwright and Karl Wilding would like to thank the staff at Leaside Regeneration
Ltd, Lea Rivers Trust, Action for Employment, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, London
Development Agency, Docklands Light Railway, British Trust for Conservation Volunteers, Stratford
Development Partnership, British Waterways, and St Saviours School, as well as staff and volunteers
involved in the Lansbury Festival and the Racial Tolerance youth project, and residents from the
Poplar and Leaside area. Additional thanks go to Jayne Blackborow (NCVO), Les Hems (Institute for
Philanthropy), Pauline Jas (Institute of Local Government Studies),Veronique Jochum (NCVO) and
Andrew Passey (Office for National Statistics).
NICVA – Siobhan O'Hagan would like to thank all the staff at Ardoyne Focus Group.Thanks also
to all those groups from within Ardoyne and surrounding areas and other stakeholders who took
part in the interviews.Thanks to Professor David Bustard, Head of School of Computing and
Information Engineering, University of Ulster, for his help with Soft Systems Methodology.
Thanks also go to Gordon McCullough (NICVA) for his valuable assistance.
SCVO – Ruchir Shah and Marion Lacey would like to thank the staff, volunteers and service users
of the Ethnic Minority Enterprise Centre in Glasgow, Meridian Black and Ethnic Minority Women's
project, San Jai Project and Positive Action in Housing.Thanks also go to the numerous individuals
from other organisations and agencies in Glasgow who have provided advice and information.
Special thanks go to the research assistants,Tahir Munj, Nira Bhardwaj and Lily Ho for their valuable
contribution.Additional thanks go to Ilse Mackinnon in the research team at SCVO.
WCVA – Bryan Collis would like to thank Lynda Garfield and Cliff Nelson (former members of
staff at WCVA) for their involvement in this study, as well as Steve Boyce and Bethan Lewis for their
work collecting the data.Thanks also go to the 161 organisations that took the time to be involved
in the study.
Special thanks also go to our editor, Ali Worthy.