Evaluation: April 2025 - March 2026
2025/26 was an exciting year. We have gathered more evaluation than ever to collate our first annual evaluation report detailing:
the people who come to take part in our arts, wellbeing and community activities
the number of activities we deliver
the feedback we get from people about their experiences
* We began making improvements to our buildings, kicking off a long-term capital programme to make SMH more welcoming, accessible and fit for the future. Our plans were given national recognition through DCMS funding of £700,000 towards the next stage of the works
* We started counting all the people who come through our doors on a weekly basis
* We continued to grow our arts and wellbeing programme including introducing Bollywood singing, Art Cafes, D/deaf Cafes, Music Therapy sessions, theatre scratch nights, a Women’s History Month event exploring the SMH archive, experimental music nights of collective creation and a large community Eid celebration
* We founded the Tower Hamlets Creative Health Forum and began writing the Tower Hamlets Creative Health Strategy
* We shared stories of what we do via our new blog and made changes to our branding
* We began gathering Most Significant Change evaluation stories
* We opened a new rehearsal studio
* We held our first two Ayoka second hand fashion shows
* We exhibited staff artwork in the Gallery Cafe
* We created two new roles in our team focused on participation and outreach
Tell us what you think
We love finding different ways to understand the impact of our work.
We send surveys to our audiences from time-to-time, ask everyone to complete an annual Community Survey, and you may also have seen our Evaluation Tree in The Create Place where we ask for your immediate thoughts which can then be seen by others.
We also love hearing from you directly with ways we can improve what we do so we continue to offer the best experiences possible.
If there’s something you would like to tell us, you can use the form below to do that:
