Winners and Evaluation

Winning schools are announced every March and supported by CSV and Kallaway to run their project and maximise the media potential around their activities. Since 1995 over 900 schools have won awards.

Projects are hugely diverse in 2005, examples included:

Prudhoe Community School
Created a school sports co-ordinator programme where students acted as coaches to local primary school children.

Bedales School
Students at this private school ran weekend summer camps for children from residential care homes. They provided a wide range of activities and were entirely student led.

Parkside Special School
Students created a video about disabled access, covering themes such as transition from school to college, after school opportunities for students and disabled access in the local community.

St Patrick's Girls Academy
Students designed and delivered an alcohol and solvent abuse education programme for younger children in their local community

Nottingham Islamia School
Students in this faith school produced and presented citizenship programmes on local community radio.

Cardinal Heenan Catholic High School
Students in this all boys school set up a peer mentoring education group to help support students with incidents of bullying and other school related problems.

Awards payments are managed by Kallaway and paid to schools throughout the year.

Evaluation
The value of each project is evidenced by feedback obtained from students, teachers, community members and school managers. Feedback is obtained via a variety of monitoring methods that include:

	Annual project impact questionnaires
	Records of the regular visits of CSV Regional Advisers
	Student opinion surveys
	Management reports
	Teacher focus groups at regional conferences
	Student presentations at local events and regional or national conferences
	Reports in local and national media

The scheme is assessed on the key principles of:

	Empowerment of young people
	Active service to the community

The evaluation is undertaken by Dr Carolyn Skilling and uses the Business Excellence Model of qualitative and quantitative examination.

"Barclays New Futures has been the easiest scheme to implement and administer and yet it has had the greatest impact on the students in the school."
Assistant Head Teacher Hillhead School

"We all use the community - the BNF project is an opportunity for young people to give something back."
Teacher

"Schools have noted a steady growth of improvement in student behaviour and community relations which are specific indicators of the success of the award scheme."
Dr Carolyn Skilling, Barclays New Futures independent evaluator