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Needs Assessment - What’s your story?

Before you commit to a case study think about your club, group or facility.

Test out the potential benefit of the case study, and think about some issues around its size and scope.

    • Think About

    • Question

      • Who are you?
    • Consider

      • Make a few notes about your club, group or facility:
      • What’s your legal structure, ‘assets’ in terms of facilities, club/group membership and its place in the local community?
      • Create a word picture
      • What’s your story?
      • Make a few notes about your club, group or facility:
      • What is your history to date? How did you come to be?
      • What have been the key achievements or developments of your club, group or facility?
      • Why do you want to tell it?
      • Do you have a key anniversary coming up?
      • Are you about to go through a significant change?
      • Are you seeking more funding or securing the funding you’ve got?
      • Do you have plans for development that need some solid foundations?
      • Are you preparing an award nomination?
      • Who is interested?
      • Is this for your members or past members?
      • Do you need to communicate with your local authority councillors, community trust or other investor?
      • What’s the scope of the project?
      • Get clear about the boundaries of the project. It will help work out what resources you need to get the case study done.
      • Are you planning on doing a case study of the whole club or group, or just the part that deals with a certain group of members or users?
      • Are you thinking about the value to a specific geographical community?
      • Who is going to be involved?
      • You will need an 'in-house' champion to ensure the case study happens, and sees it through to the end.
      • Is development of the case study just your job or are you going to use a range of others as part of the process?
      • Are you the champion, planner and co-ordinator, or are you going to be collecting the information, doing the analysis and preparing it for sharing with others?
      • If you’re going to use others, what’s their role? How committed and engaged are they?
      • Do they have the skills and enthusiasm to make this a priority?
    • Checkpoint

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      • ☐ You have a great story to tell.
      • ☐ A range of people would be interested in finding out more.
      • ☐ There are benefits that a range of stakeholders will receive through this process.
      • ☐ The boundaries of the project are clear.
      • ☐ There are a number of people available to help plan, implement and document the case study, who have a good set of skills.