The next GAoLF webinar will be on Wednesday 30 August at 2pm BST.  on the topic of:

The challenges of collecting meaningful data to help literary festivals plan, evolve and demonstrate their value.

It will be presented by Shelley Timms of Culture Counts, a company that enable organisations, practitioners and philanthropists to craft rich evidence-based stories about the value they create.

Don’t miss this chance to make your data capture work better for you. Register for your place here

Topics covered will be:

• Qualitative vs quantitative data – what is the difference?
• How to  build your confidence and understanding  of data analysis
• What are outcomes and why do we measure them?
• The Six Step Evaluation Process
• How these metrics can apply to literary festivals
• Newcastle Writers Festival Case study and other examples: Centre for Stories (successful funding application), The Literature Centre, Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival, Perth Festival Writers Weekend.
• Culture Counts Evaluation Platform and Analytics Dashboard