Client: National PubWatch
Project: The PubWatch Toolkit
What were MAKE asked to do?
MAKE were asked by National PubWatch, the UK-wide organisation that supports over 600 local PubWatch schemes, to devise a toolkit that schemes could follow to measure the impact they had on reducing crime and disorder in their town or city.
How did MAKE do it?
We identified what areas of crime and disorder could be reasonably affected in a positive way by the implementation of a local PubWatch scheme.
We also identified other areas that a PubWatch may contribute to, such as a reduction in hospitals admissions.
We then examined the commonly available national and local datasets that a local PubWatch could easily access and analyse to show progress in their local evening and night-time economy. Examples included falls in alcohol-related injury presentations at hospitals and reductions in sexual assaults.
We then brought these data sources together in an easy to use Impact Measurement Toolkit that showed PubWatch coordinators what data was out there, how to gather the data, how to assess its robustness, how to interpret it and then how to draft a short report that would be comprehensible to PubWatch members, local meetings, the media and stakeholders. The purpose of the report was to evidence how their scheme was working (or if it wasn’t reducing crime and hospital admissions, it served to function as a starting point for what could be done to make their PubWatch more effective).
What happened next?
The guide was launched at the national PubWatch conference and is now a major feature of the PubWatch website. All PubWatches are now expected to measure their impact.
What unique value did MAKE bring to this project?
This project was more difficult than it first seemed. The resources available to the average PubWatch coordinator are limited both in time and skills, so we had to really boil down complex data into something they could gather but which still had a reasonable level of robustness. We like to think we achieved that.