Embedded Files
We're creative producers, impact and evaluation specialists, trainers and course designers, community engagement experts and consultants with equity and belonging at our centre.
We are multi-talented and multi-faceted with so many arms to our practice we could be an octopus.
Our purpose is to support our customers; whether they are Charities freelancers, Micro-businesses, SMEs or large business; to be more collaborative, to be more impactful, and to communicate their positive impact with pride.
Our experienced team includes professionals with experience in project management, evaluation and data analysis, as well as creative production and cultural programming across education, arts, culture and heritage.
Our Mission
Our Mission
Based between Bath and Bristol in the South West of England, we were 'formally' established in 2023 by Stacey Pottinger after her many years of delivering freelance community research, evaluation projects as well as conference and event management to repeat clients; and since then the projects and the team has grown.
In short, our goal is to democratise evaluation and support true co-design.
In short, our goal is to democratise evaluation and support true co-design.
Our mission is to design evaluation, training, and community engagement with equity and belonging at its core. We are dedicated to supporting everyone; from freelancers and grassroots charities to large organisations in arts, culture and heritage; in uncovering the simplest, most meaningful ways to tell their stories and celebrate the vital value they bring to society.
Since 2023 we have worked as a learning partner with small arts companies made up of freelancers, large national heritage organisations and significant Higher Education providers to:
design and deliver free online and in-person training
develop social impact evaluation frameworks and matrices
deliver extensive National Lottery Heritage Fund evaluation reports
provide toolkits and co-designed methodologies in order to clients to evaluate their own projects
offered reflective and reflexive creative evaluation sessions
Our Values
Our Values
We live and work by our values at Octopus Impact. As a team of people with experience of working directly with children and young people, refugees and neurodivergent people these values are matched by our behaviours and are crucial to how we provide our services for our clients. Our values are:
Equity - we work alongside our clients and the communities they engage with and recognise that people have different starting points and circumstances and therefore require differing support.
Transparency - we work with transparency. By this we mean the practice of openness, honesty, and accountability in communication and decision-making.
Collaboration - we recognise that it is not always possible to offer co-design or socially-engaged approached to evaluation, creative production and training. But we always consider our clients, partners and communities at the very least our collaborators.
Inclusivity & Active Listening - we won't always get it right, but we will always listen first to ensure we meet our partners, clients and communities at a place where we can be as inclusive as possible and meet their needs. We offer space and opportunity for all to feel valued and heard in order to reach a positive outcome.
Free Evaluation Training
Free Evaluation Training
We first delivered this training in 2024 through popular in-person workshops. We tailored the sessions for researchers and community organisations across Bath and North East Somerset, addressing specific needs that University of Bath had identified through community conversations and Participate Grants applications.
The response to the workshops was overwhelmingly positive. This inspired us to collaborate with the University of Bath Public Engagement Unit to transform the comprehensive material into a free, accessible e-learning format. We've meticulously retained all the practical tools and exercises to ensure a high standard of learning for everyone.
Find out more about the course here, or if you're already bought in and want to get onboard, you can access the course, free of charge by clicking here and signing up to Moodle.
For more information and for an initial conversation please contact Stacey via:
Phone: 07799 038519
Email: stacey@octopusimpact.org
Page updated
Report abuse