Projects
Supporting Shelter’s housing campaign
Click here to read the report for Shelter
For more information about Shelter and its work, visit the NCB website
Looking at the benefits of NCB’s Young Inspectors programme
Click here to read the report
NCB’s own evaluation of the Young Inspectors programme can be found here
For more information about NCB and its work, visit the NCB website
Assessing the effectiveness and value of Barnardo’s work with sexually exploited children
Click here to read the full report
Click here for more information about the methodology used
Key findings from the report can be found here in a briefing from Barnardo’s
Click here for the press release for this report
For more information about Barnardo’s and its work, visit the Barnardo’s website
Measuring the impact of Tomorrow’s People’s work programmes
Friday 17th June saw the launch of a new PBE report, delivered by FTI Consulting, for employment charity Tomorrow’s People.
Read the full report here
For a shorter summary click here
The press release for the event is here.
To find out more about Tomorrow’s People, visit their website at www.tomorrows-people.org.uk.
Foundation Training Company’s impact in Hackney
The charity approached PBE to help demonstrate the value of this work delivered at its Hackney Centre.
The key findings from the report are here
The full report can be read here
For more information about FTC and its work, visit the FoundationTraining Company website.
PBE economists advise St Basils
St Basils works with young people aged 16 to 25 across Birmingham and North Worcestershire, providing supported accommodation and support services. St Basils approached PBE for advice on better measuring the impact of its work.
A summary of the project can be found by clicking here
More information about the charity can be found on the St Basils website
Assisting the Maternal Mortality Campaign
The Maternal Mortality Campaign approached PBE to find an economist who could investigate data on maternal mortality and morbidity, and child mortality, to apply to an economic argument supporting interventions. We matched MMC with an economist from the Bank of England who spent time working with MMC and looking at the relevant data that exists.
Click here to read about the outcome of this work
PBE helps the Citizenship Foundation
More detail about this PBE project can be found by clicking here
The materials that the team helped to create can be found on the Citizenship Foundation website
First phase of project with Greenhouse completed
Greenhouse empowers young people in London’s disadvantaged communities to realise their potential through sport and dance programmes.
The charity approached PBE to do an economic evaluation of their programmes. We introduced them to a team of volunteers who work for the National Audit Office and have just completed the first phase of the work.
This takes the form of an advice paper to the charity, with proposals to enhance their data collection in the school year 2011-12. The volunteers are planning to use this data to produce an economic evaluation of the Greenhouse programmes in the second phase, which is due to conclude in Autumn 2012.
Pilot Projects
Pro Bono Economics began with pilot projects, to get things up and running, and to learn more about how the idea might work in practice. These projects were not without challenges, but have been valuable for the charities, the economists and for PBE.
We continue to make matches between other charities and economists. We currently have more than twenty projects underway and are discussing the feasibility of many more, spanning the charity sector and bringing new and interesting challenges.
Our first completed, for the St Giles Trust, was completed in March 2010.
St Giles Trust
This project evaluates the benefits of the St Giles’ “Through the Gates” programme.
The programme is aimed at reducing the rate of re-offending. It provides a range of services including pre-release assessment and, following release, accommodation and help in reintegration and employment search. In examining the economic impact of the Through the Gates programme at St Giles, Frontier Economics has confirmed the value of this important work.
