UrbanBuzz
Building sustainable communities
RETILE COMBEEP
Project title
Project summary
Real-time Learning for Communitybased
Environmental Projects
Groundwork are working in partnership with UCL
to investigate self-evaluation processes of open
space regeneration projects. The findings from this
investigation will be used to encourage practitioners
and community groups to use selfevaluation as a tool
for learning from and developing future projects.
Lead organisation
UCL
Project coordinators
Gemma Moore
Ben Croxford
Contact details
T: 0207 554 4060
gemma.moore@ucl.ac.uk
b.croxford@ucl.ac.uk
Website
www.urbanbuzz.org
www.groundwork-nl.org.uk
Project value
£125,233 grant plus £23,823
contribution in kind
Start/end dates
1/7/07 to 21/12/08
Project partners
Groundwork (local and regional
trusts); London 21; The AOC;
SES Strategies Ltd
UrbanBuzz project monitor
Chris Anderson
c.e.anderson@uel.ac.uk
This will be achieved through:
• Evaluating past, present, and ongoing projects
• Testing a range of participatory monitoring and evaluation techniques
• Sharing any lessons learned through organised workshops
• Development of an e-learning tool.
The project aims:
• To make evaluation easier and more accessible
• To share knowledge and best practice with other organisations
• To incorporate new methods into the evaluation process.
Four completed community-based environmental
projects are being currently reviewed, using a
number of innovative methodologies and
processes developed. These are:
• A play area redesigned by young people on the Gilbey’s Yard Estate Camden
• The creation of a community garden and gardening club on the Regents Park Estate in Camden
• The renovation of two small play areas on Hornsey Rise Estate in Islington
• The transformation of two derelict open spaces on the Brecknock Road Estate in Islington
to multi-use, inclusive play, planting and seating areas by the local tenants and residents association.