What We Do
Barefoot Research and Evaluation carry out social and economic research and evaluation. We specialise in creating innovative approaches to complex social and economic research tasks. We offer a range of services including:
Barefoot Reasearch also coordinates and administers the North East Offender Network (Neon) on behalf of Voluntary Organisations Network North East (VONNE). More details
All the work that we do directly improves policy and practice and recent examples include:
- Research into sexual exploitation and sex work informed and assisted with strategy development for local Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships and Local Safeguarding Children’s Boards
- Research and development work for Voluntary Organisations Network North East (VONNE) created the first network in the north east for voluntary agencies working with (ex) offenders and their families
- Evaluation of Safe Newcastle’s Anti-social Behaviour Programme continually informed strategy and delivery
- Research for the Family and Social Support Pathway (part of the Regional Reducing Re-offending Action Plan) led to additional resourcing of the Pathway and improvements in prison policy
- Research and evaluation for Safe Newcastle’s Anti-Social Behaviour Programme constantly informs project development
- Evaluation of Doorstep Pictures led to a refocus of the project
- The review of the Newcastle Anti-Social Behaviour Unit led to a restructure of the Unit based on our recommendations
- The review of the Newcastle’s Full Circle domestic violence project resulted in project changes such as improvements in project management and increases in the effectiveness of the project based on our recommendations
- The outcome measures that we developed for Northumbria Probation’s Prolific and Priority Offenders programme have been adopted by the six schemes across the Northumbria region
- The MSc module on participatory development is now being delivered to Nigerian and UK-based students at the University of Central Lancashire
- The ongoing consultation for Safe Newcastle is constantly improving and developing their services and policy through the development of recommendations
We believe that good research and evaluation should not only identify models of good practice, but more importantly should identify weaknesses and learning points. It is only by embracing our mistakes that we can improve our services.
Barefoot Research and Evaluation prides itself on customer satisfaction and produces quality reports on time.
CLIENT FEEDBACK
"Barefoot did a fantatsic job of our evaluation. In particular, their approach to working with our service users was very impressive. The evaluation has answered many of our questions, but also asked us more, which gives us a great opportunity for the future."
Jayne Butler, Manager, The Comfrey Project
"As an organisation we felt that Barefoot did an excellent job of listening and
understanding the needs of our review... We were thrilled with the final report; as well as being a very good read, the presentation and quality was excellent."
Cath Carnaby, Manager, Women's Health Advice Centre
"I am pleased with the honesty and thoroughness with which he (Christopher) dealt with the project. Thanks to the evaluation we now have a number of questions answered and a clear way forward."
Maureen Pearson, Area manager North East, Parentline Plus