Description of impact
Due to restructuring of the university and of Citizen’s Advice (CA) Wandsworth, we lost more than 70% of the team over the course of the project, which substantially impacted our ability to deliver the expected outcomes, specifically our ability to embed the project in the intended community of Alton Estates. During the pilot, the remaining team pivoted and found multiple arts organisations that were at the centre of local community ecosystems and began to engineer ways of embedding the assets within these communities. Croydon Youth Theatre Organisation (CYTO) has been collaborating with us since October 2022 and have co-designed the next phase of the project, with a focus on helping arts organisations activate under-utilised spaces around the borough during the Borough of Culture celebrations.Thus, while the project demonstrated the iterability of our design, which was a key factor, it did not successfully break the cycle of isolated, under-utilised events characteristic of the active Alton community. We had intended to provide an umbrella organisation for the estate to help with this issue but, after the loss of key members of the team, the community investment necessary to enact this change was absent, although the desire for the university to fund and organise more activities remained high. We have pursued this sort of programming under other auspices in that it did not address the core aims of this project.
On the other hand, while not the intended location, the project is now well-embedded in Corydon and has begun to operate relatively autonomously of the initial project team. Assuming the audience who has registered for the January 5th event show up, we will have impacted roughly 300 people in one capacity of another. The number of participants for each event has grown and this growth has accelerated now that the project has been re-homed in Croydon.
| Impact date | 2021 → 2022 |
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| Category of impact | Social impact |