Our Approach

Building on a history of place-based arts interventions since 2013, 21 Artists is now expanding its focus to also including workshops, consultation and support around creative evaluation, specialising in social impact evaluation. This new, broadened focus means we not only create our own projects, but we work with events, conferences and organisations to further challenge what impact they are having through their work; why creativity is as essential part to a healthy society; and where we can work together with organisations to develop robust solutions or activate knowledge in innovative ways. This also includes consultation for artists, organisations, NGOs and international charities passionate about social impact and entrepreneurial development delivered in a bespoke way. 

We view the organisations or companies we work with more as collaborators rather than clients, working closely together towards a shared aim of creative social change. 21 Artists views itself as a mechanism to 'capture the magic' and make a case for the excellent work our collaborators are doing through robust yet creative approaches to evaluation, research, social impact and exchange. Through interventions, workshops, consultations, and programme development, 21 Artists is dedicated to social change. In an increasingly competitive funding environment, we believe social impact is not only an essential tool for better understanding of an organisation’s mission and impact working with new and diverse communities in innovative ways.

We believe that creativity is an essential part of the development of any programme, project or business, so we use a creative approach at every stage of the process- from developing and implementing evaluation frameworks to analysing and presenting data collected.

Our areas of specialism include:

• Developing a Theory of Change
• Creative and Robust Data Collection Techniques
• Analysing and Presenting Data
• Creating a Holistic Evaluation plan
• Community Consultation
• Business Development
• Research Design, with a specialism in Creative and Participatory Methods

At the moment, we provide bespoke, longer term evaluation support for festivals, youth programmes and social change projects, community engaged projects, and more. 

Building the value of understanding an organisation’s social impact in entrepreneurial development, we also work with organisations to integrate a model for entrepreneurship that helps artists and arts organisations to innovate in how they create and capture value. We offer support on business model innovation in a holistic way that is in line with each organisation's mission and the value they already create, offering bespoke consultation to foster growth and the development of new revenue streams. For more information, contact us.