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A Social Impact Study by Gerri Moriarty and Roger Hill

...as Broadcast in Beijing was published by Merseyside ACME in 2001, and is widely recognised as being an important social impact study. Its authors, are both highly regarded community artists and creative consultants and this publication should be compulsory reading for anyone interested in finding out how arts and creativity can impact upon community regeneration.

Over a three year period between 1997 and 2000 Merseyside ACME encouraged over 120 arts-led community regeneration projects through the investment of technical and management skills, and grant funding of £500,000.

The ACME project offered a unique opportunity for learning. It invested in a large number of projects in different settings, using different art forms, but all attempting to meet broadly similar regeneration targets. ACME set up a Monitoring and Evaluation Project for the programme with the following aims.

  • To analyse the projects in terms of outputs and quality of outcomes;
  • To focus on a particular community in order to ascertain the impact of arts-funded projects against a background of a wide range of community features;
  • To compare a small number of funded projects in order to identify local factors contributing to the quality of their outcomes;
  • To produce the findings from the projects in forms most appropriate to wide dissemination across a number of interested communities.

It is on the qualitative side that the real interest lies and Gerri and Roger decided to look for common project outcomes, which could be grouped under three broad headings:

  • Impact on the individual
  • Impact on the organisation or organisations involve
  • Impact on strategy

The reporting of these outcomes makes for fascinating reading, and if anyone still needs help in building a case for the use of creativity in regeneration then they will find all the evidence they need here.

ISBN 0953825418

Paperback £12.00 (plus postage and packaging)
To order your copy or for other sales and publicity enquiries contact:

Cathy Skelly
Merseyside ACME
Unit 303, Vanilla Factory
39 Fleet Street
Liverpool L1 4AR
Tel. +44 (0)151 708 4509
cskelly@merseysideacme.com