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Alison PopeDirector of Projects

What is Fixers…

Fixers is a UK-wide campaign supporting young people to take action on issues they feel strongly about – changing things for the better.

To watch this video visit http://vimeo.com/60654119

The story so far….

• Started in 2008 funded primarily by v • Received £7.2m from The Big Lottery

Fund in April 2012• Premises in Winchester, Manchester,

Cardiff, Belfast and Glasgow• 76 staff• Developed website• Adopted and customised Apricot

database

Fixers.org.uk

To date:

• 9973 Fixers • 1145 Projects• 4 countries• 13 different broadcast items a month• 438 items broadcast on ITV

What we have to report to BIG

• 21,000 Fixers across four years• 2885 projects over four years• Split by country• Demonstrate impact • Demonstrate local people are engaged• Changes in local people’s perceptions

of young people• Improvements in the skills and

attributes of young people

How and when we gather data

• 18 YPCs meet Fixers• Fixers registration forms• Online registrations – survey monkey• During project• At audience stage • At project close • Uploaded manually to Apricot, or

imported from Excel spreadsheets

What else we record

• Demographics• Budget information• Progress of a Fix• Geographical information• Theme of projects• Types of resource• Other funder information

How we record data

What we do with that data

• Progress monitoring • Geographic spread of Fixers and

projects • Monitoring budgets• Pulling through to the website• Potential funders

Project spread

Audience feedback

Transferring to the website

A Fixer’s film