Congratulations on your successful application for public engagement funding! We’re delighted to have such a wide range of projects ahead of us. This page will have links to information that you may need as you plan your project.
Evaluating the impact of your project
We want to help you measure the impact of your project. To do this, we’ll encourage you to consider how you can evaluate your activity, matching the methodology to the activity. We’re running an evaluation workshop on 19 March, which will give an overview of how to evaluate your project. There will also be a workshop on using creative methods for public engagement in May 2026 (date tbc).
At the end of your project we’ll ask you to complete a final report about your project. This will ask you for some quantitative data (how many participants attended your event etc) and also for some text which we’ll use for this blog, and other resources.
The form will be updated and sent out to you soon. For reference, here is the 2024/5 version.
Equipment and resources
Over the years we’ve accumulated lots of equipment and resources that you’re very welcome to use for your project – this includes (but isn’t limited to):
pens, pencils, stickers, chalk, children’s scissors and more arts & crafts materials
gazebos
ENU branded tablecloths
ENU branded pens (to be given away)
clipboards
Safeguarding and consent
Many of you will be working with people who may be vulnerable. We want to make sure that our engagement is safe, inclusive and accessible. You will need to complete a risk assessment form and submit this to your Public Engagement Lead (no later than one week before the activity is due to take place). More information about risk assessments.
You will also need to make sure project participants complete consent forms if you take photos of do any filming.
Advertising an event
You may need to produce materials to publicise your activity. If you’re working with a community partner, they can often help you do this (and coordinate the marketing, as they’ll know their community).
If you’re pulling together your own materials, please make sure that you current logos and resources from the University’s Brand Hub (only accessible to Napier colleagues) – and avoid the old ENU logo (which has a shadow under the red triangle). If you have any questions about this please contact creative@napier.ac.uk.
If you’re producing posters, leaflets or similar, Canva is a handy free online software (if you need paid-for parts of Canva, please let me know as we have a public engagement account). Eventbrite is likely to be the best option for ticketing and is fairly easy to set up.