Your Shore Beach Rangers Evaluation Report

Rogers, Matthew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9935-2879, Esmene, Shukru ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8561-6055 and Michael, Leyshon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9411-6167 (2021) Your Shore Beach Rangers Evaluation Report. Project Report. UNSPECIFIED.

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Abstract / Summary

This work was created by the University of Exeter Social Innovation Group (SIG) who in 2021 tasked an evaluation team Dr Shukru Esmene, Matthew Rogers and Dr Michael Leyshon. Matthew Rogers completed participant interviews and analysed the responses to evaluate the impact of a project called 'Your Shore - Beach Rangers'. Beach Rangers was funded by the National Lottery Community Fund as part of the Our Bright Future programme.

Your Shore Beach Rangers (YSBR) ran between 2016 and 2021. The project was coordinated
by Cornwall Wildlife Trust (CWT) and Cornwall College, and funded by the National Lottery
Community Fund’s Our Bright Future (OBF) partnership. The project’s overarching aims were to:
A team of independent researchers from the University of Exeter’s Social Innovation Group
(part of the Centre for Geography and Environmental Science based at the University of
Exeter’s Penryn Campus) used a suite of methods (predominantly qualitative) to provide an indepth evaluation of YSBR. This included drawing insights from:
The evaluation also examined descriptive quantitative data that was relevant to the project’s
aims. Specifically, the project engaged 5,000 participants aged under 11 years; 16,000
participants aged between 11 and 24 years and 13,500 participants aged above 24 years.

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