Research & Evaluation
As part of Capital Volunteering; the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) evaluated the effects that participating in Capital Volunteering had on the quality of service users’ lives. The evaluation looked at the hopes, fears and experiences of 150 Capital Volunteers soon after they joined the project and then followed them up at 6 months and 12 months.

The latest evidence that Capital Volunteering is working, based on the evaluation of the programme, has just been produced in a fourth interim report by the institute of Psychiatry.

The Summary document based on the findings of the report can be downloaded here.
[PDF document, 30Kb]

The full report can be downloaded here.
[PDF document, 220Kb]

A Pathway To Recovery
'A Pathway to Recovery', a qualitative study from the Institute of Psychiatry, has also been published which contains the experiences of 18 Capital Volunteers over 18 months.

The themes in the report reveal a sequence of experiences, events and stages towards wider social inclusion, providing insights into the pathway to recovery.

'A Pathway to Recovery' can be downloaded here.
[PDF document, 193Kb]