Experienced research, evaluation and strategy consultant with over twelve years of project consultancy and over five years supporting organisations and SMME’s with their strategy and planning.
Broad-cross sector experience in the creative and cultural sectors, youth and education, sport and leisure, tourism and place, community services, and local government.
Started Live Projects in 2015 and lead's LP's research, strategy and storytelling projects. We are a small and agile London-based research bureau providing impactful and creative research and storytelling projects for creative and community placeshapers, cultural districts, social and community enterprises, purposeful businesses and the creative industries.
www.liveprojectsolutions.com
We fuse research and consultancy methods with storytelling and impact journalism to bring about positive change. We help our customers build deeper connections with their audiences and communities, plan and grow with purpose, and communicate their impact and legacy. Our work takes us to the intersections of community, culture, and consciousness in cities and neighbourhoods.
We exist to be of service to creative leaders and changemakers – bringing the strategic awareness of an agency with the attentiveness and flexibility of freelance. We stand for a world where decision-making is evidence-led and citizens, customers and communities are empowered.
Projects
- Case Study: Leytonstone Loves FilmLeytonstone Loves Film (LLF) is a free community-powered programme celebrating film culture and Leytonstone’s vibrant cinema community. We worked closely with the Barbican’s inspiring Communities and Neighbourhoods team to design and lead a storytelling approach to document, tell the story of, and evaluate the impact and legacy of the 2021 festival and the evolution of the festival model.
- Project update: research and evaluation support to Foundation for Future London and the Connecting People and Places FundFoundation for Future London is an independent charity established in 2015 created to connect communities, the new East Bank and its globally renowned arts, innovation and cultural partners.
- Collaborating with The People Speak to connect people to discuss health and community issues in SouthwarkThe People Speak (TPS) is a group of international artists based in London. TPS has 25 years of expertise in helping people understand each other and collectively process the world’s complexity. The team creates fun, interactive, participatory formats and interventions in the UK and abroad, articulating collective imagination, informing public decision-making and deepening connections between diverse groups of people. (Picture Credit: The People Speak)
- Across the Road: Examining the impact and relationship of developments in Paddington Green/Hall Place Estate in the context of the Church Street Regeneration scheme in WestminsterA Civic Design CPD Project with UCL Bartlett School of Planning). In 2021/22 Live Projects’ Chris Hayes worked as part of a student design team and with creatives with embedded community working in London Paddington’s Church Street estate to co-design solutions for strengthened public engagement, regeneration, and creative arts-based ideas and solutions to improve the public realm. This included a community audit and community consultation, and working with CivicWise’s public realm community e
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Principal ConsulantLive Projects
United KingdomFull Time
We are a small and agile London-based research bureau providing impactful and creative research and storytelling projects for creative and community placeshapers, cultural districts, social and community enterprises, purposeful businesses and the creative industries.