Welcome to Bright Impact
Bright Impact: doing evaluation differently
Bright Impact CIC is on a mission to cultivate joy and creativity in evaluation. We want to celebrate diverse ways of knowing, being and doing evaluative work. To achieve this, we’ll be offering training, programmes, and bespoke consultancy aimed at those who want to build their knowledge, skills and confidence using creative methods.
About Creative Methods
Sometimes using traditional evaluation methods, like surveys or interviews, feels like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. They just don’t work.
There can be lots of different reasons for this. For example they might feel tedious and extractive, leading to disengagement or lack of interest. Then there are practical issues like literacy challenges and language barriers. Sometimes traditional methods just aren’t appropriate.
Creative evaluation methods, as an alternative, can be more inclusive, as they provide alternative ways for individuals with diverse backgrounds, abilities, and communication styles to participate. People who may feel uncomfortable or marginalised in traditional evaluation settings may find creative methods more accessible and empowering.
So we’re on a mission to support organisations to use more creative methods as a way to understand their impact, demonstrate it and help centre voices of the people that matter most.
About Jami - Bright Impact Founder
Although Jami has lived and worked in various parts of the world (including Leeds, London, Edinburgh, and Kampala - Uganda), she has recently moved back to the North East with her dog Luna.
Jami started her career 15 years ago working for a small charity in Uganda, managing a range of community-based projects. Since then, she has completed a PhD exploring the impacts of climate change on agriculture and worked on the evaluation of various UK-aid funded projects across Sub-Saharan Africa. After that, she spent 5 years at UnLtd - The Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs, before becoming a freelance Impact & Evaluation Practitioner in 2021.
Her current work mainly focuses on supporting charities and social enterprises to use data and evidence as a force for good. Jami's ADHD and dyslexia bring a unique perspective to her work, and she is always looking for fun and creative ways to evidence impact. She is also the co-chair of the Charity Evaluation Working Group (ChEW), one of the founding organisations of the Equitable Evaluation Collective. Jami is passionate about challenging traditional power dynamics in evaluation and championing approaches that promote equity.
Outside of work, you’re likely to find Jami wandering around in the great outdoors, curled up reading a book somewhere, or putting the world to rights over coffee (or maybe wine).
