Insight. Evidence. Lived experience.

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Think ATR is our research, insight and evaluation arm, the function that turns what is happening on the ground into learning that boards, investors, commissioners, funders and leaders can act on. It is also where we lead the practice of co-production and lived experience inclusion, as both a value and a method.

Decisions about strategies, services and investments are only as good as the evidence behind them. But too often that evidence is narrow, drawn from the easiest data to collect, not necessarily the most meaningful. Think ATR brings together frontline intelligence, customer and community voice, and robust research methods to give you evidence that is rigorous, relevant and usable, whether you need it for a board paper, a social-value disclosure, an investment decision, a funder report or a commissioning case. Think ATR helps organisations make better decisions and demonstrate value.

Independent evidence you can trust, produced with the people, organisations and teams it describes.

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Our research and evaluation work is mixed-method, co-produced where appropriate, and designed to be actionable. We have standing partnerships with academic institutions and specialist evaluators, and we bring a strong methodological toolkit, from SROI and longitudinal impact assessment through to participatory and narrative approaches.

•    Independent programme, service and culture evaluation. Mixed-method evaluations that tell you what is working, what is not, and what to do next.

•    Social Return on Investment (SROI) and social-value impact studies. Making the financial and social case for your investment, credible evidence for your board, investors, commissioners and funders.

•    Needs assessments and insight gathering. Understanding what your population, workforce, customers or users actually need, beyond what routine data can show.

•    Lived experience research and co-production. Community Action Collective methodology, Listening Project approaches, and participatory evaluation designed with and by people with lived experience.

•    Maturity assessments and organisational diagnostics. Using the ATR Maturity Matrix and Readiness Checklist to benchmark where you are and plan where to go.

•    Applied research and academic partnerships. Co-authored studies, research fellowships, peer-reviewed outputs, and contributions to the national and international evidence base.

•    Policy and strategic insight. Briefings, horizon-scanning and evidence synthesis to support your strategic planning.

Employers and businesses evaluating workforce, wellbeing, inclusion, leadership and culture initiatives and needing credible, defensible impact data for investors, regulators and reporting frameworks.

Corporate foundations, CSR teams and sustainability leads wanting rigorous, externally credible impact assessment of their social investment.
Commissioners and Integrated Care Boards needing independent evidence to inform investment decisions and demonstrate value.

Public sector programme leads evaluating pilots, services and transformation work.

Voluntary and community organisations seeking affordable, credible evaluation that supports fundraising and strategic decision-making.
Universities and research consortia looking for applied partnerships rooted in co-production.

Funders, philanthropic organisations and grant-makers wanting rigorous impact assessment across their portfolios.

Think ATR treats lived experience as core evidence not as anecdote or supporting colour. Our emerging Community Action Collective, Listening Project methodology, and co-production infrastructure mean that community, workforce and customer voice is embedded in the design of every piece of research and evaluation, and shapes what it measures and how.