Monitoring, evaluation and insight
How we measure impact and report on the outcomes of our projects.
Ping! like many Table Tennis England programmes, is funded by Sport England, National Lottery funding.
We therefore have a commitment to achieve specific targets and wider outcomes, and must ensure we work with partners to effectively measure impact and report on the outcomes of this investment into social table tennis.
In order for us to get an overall view of the impact of your project, we’ve got a few different bits of data collection. We always try to make this process as simple as possible for you, whilst ensuring we collect everything needed. Quite likely we’ll require:
Provide us with details of any table donations you have made since project starts. We need this information to be able to monitor and evaluate any projects you donate tables to, using our own existing processes. We will include these projects in your personalised infographic showing the collated table tennis projects across your area.
Create a network of local partners to help drive the project and tell us about the key partnerships you’ve created.
We ask players to complete a survey so that we can keep track of who’s playing, and ask them about their experience. We also want to create case studies to demonstrate the impact of the Ping! programme on people, and so are asking partners and participants to complete the downloadable templates.
Partner infographics
As partners facilitating/delivering, it’s also important for you to see the individual and collective impact of your work. We therefore support partners in data collection, evaluating and consistently share insight and good practice in order to impact change and evolve programmes where needed.
Whether you are working with the ageing population, youngsters, people with health or mental problems or the socially isolated, playing table tennis will be of benefit to them and its impact can be powerful. We create and circulate based on your submission of data and report that back to you. We will refer to data received to produce a town/city specific infographic and ensure each of our partners receive copies to support developments locally.
Ping on film
A series of films showcasing Ping! and how the project is reaching diverse members of the community, tackling a variety of social outcomes.