Managing open spaces for nature
Plantagenet Consulting has been evaluating environmental improvement schemes for a number of years – it has been a really enjoyable journey. We have now come to a point where the Director and Associates are moving on to new challenges in life, and Jane in particular is now moving on from watching other people doing it, to getting her hands dirty and getting stuck in herself.
Who have we worked with?
We’ve looked at:
Meres and Mosses (Shropshire and Cheshire)
Tame Valley Wetlands and Love your River Cole
Natural Futures (Cheshire)
BogLIFE – Restoring the Marches Mosses
Water, Mills and Marshes Landscape Partnership Scheme in the Broads
Jewellery Quarter Cemeteries
Where will Jane be working in future?
2.7 hectares of rural France
We have worked with some excellent environmental projects
We have particularly enjoyed seeing how the Marches Mosses have evolved.
Formative and Summative Evaluations
Working with a number of organisations and partnerships, we have provided constructive formative evaluations, showing how goals can be best achieved in the final period of funding, building on strengths and successes. We have then provided in depth summative evaluations, celebrating a vast range of achievements
17
Years of Experience
We have built sound evaluation processes.
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Major NLHF dossiers
That covers about about £15.5 million cash and in kind effort by clients and partners
5000+ ha
Restored for wildlife
Those clients and partners have helped nature across a wide area
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Consultants
A Director and two Senior Associates have made Plantagenet Consulting what it is.
Pond Dipping looks great fun – the contents of this aquarium were from supervised dipping in ditches on the Broads.
We recommend evaluating your projects using a structured approach
We recommend you start planning your evaluation as part of your project development process, and use a logic chain model (also known as Theory of Change) to work out what you need to know and therefore what you need to measure.
- Include evaluation from the start
- Ensure your measures cover what you want to know
- Make sure data collection is feasible
- Photographs are a great way of tracking change
- Celebrate achievement and learn from mistakes – both are equally valuable
