On Wednesday 9th March, the Trust held its final webinar to share the key findings from the independent evaluation, carried out by the University of Stirling and Ipsos MORI. It was chaired by Alexis Jay, who is the Chair of the Life Changes Trust Board.

The evaluation project brought together findings from diverse sources, in order to consider the extent to which the Trust had met its aims, to demonstrate the impact and outcomes for our beneficiaries, to assess the place and impact of the Trust in the wider policy and practice context and to identify models of funding that would benefit others in the future.

A team of ‘community researchers’, including people living with dementia, unpaid carers and young people with care experience, also formed a core part of the evaluation team. They worked alongside researchers from the University of Stirling and Ipsos MORI across the various elements of the research.

In this film, we meet Michael Cheung. Michael is a dementia activist, lives with a diagnosis of dementia and was a core part of the Community Researchers team. He also introduces a short film, which looks at his - and others - experience of moving from project beneficiaries to community researchers, how their understanding of research processes evolved over time and the benefits of using co-production in research.

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