Creative Evaluation Brunch Club
Brunch Club is an informal, unstructured space for evaluation practitioners to:
✨ Connect and talk all things creative evaluation
✨ Solve problems and share the messy reality of using these methods
✨ Gain valuable insights from a community of like-minded peers
These free events are all about celebrating creativity and finding ways to make evaluation more engaging, meaningful, and most importantly, human.
If you’ve got questions about the format or aren’t sure if it’s for you, then email jami@brightimpact.co.uk. We’re more than happy to have a quick chat beforehand.
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2026 Brunch Clubs
Next Bruch Club’s Topic:
Using in AI in creative evaluations: Dos, don’ts and dilemmas
April’s Brunch Club - Our favourite creative methods
April’s conversation felt like it moved a step on from March.
Less about whether people can do evaluation…
and more about how they want to do it.
There was a lot of curiosity around creative and participatory approaches.
People were asking:
What does this actually look like in practice?
How do you make it feel meaningful, not tokenistic?
How do you bring others into the process without it becoming overwhelming?
We also touched on power — although not always using that word directly.
Who designs the evaluation?
Who asks the questions?
Who decides what “counts” as evidence?
And how often are the people closest to the work shaping those decisions?
There was a real openness in the room. People sharing ideas they hadn’t fully figured out yet. Things they wanted to try, but weren’t quite sure how to start.
And that felt important.
Because those early, slightly uncertain conversations don’t always have a place elsewhere.
It left me wondering:
What would shift if more evaluations were designed with people, rather than for them?
And what support do people need to make that feel possible?
March’s Brunch club - Reimagining research ethics
March’s Brunch Club felt like a bit of an exhale.
There was something about the conversation that kept coming back to capacity.
Time.
Energy.
Headspace.
People spoke quite openly about the reality of trying to “do evaluation well” alongside everything else they’re holding — especially in smaller organisations.
Not because they don’t care.
But because there’s only so much you can realistically fit into a week.
We talked about the pressure to evidence impact.
To get it right.
To use the “best” methods.
And how that can sometimes lead to people feeling stuck before they’ve even started.
There was also a thread around confidence.
Who feels able to try something different?
Who feels like they need to stick to what’s expected?
And what helps shift that?
No big answers (there rarely are). But a sense that simplifying things — and being honest about constraints — might be part of the work. I’ve been reflecting on this:
What does “good enough” evaluation look like when time and capacity are genuinely limited?
And who gets to decide that?