“It has been a pleasure working with Berni. She is a real expert in what she does and, through a range of desk-based research, and thoughtful 1-1 discussions, focus groups, and surveys with all our stakeholders, gathered a thorough understanding of our work. As a result, she produced an excellent evaluation that demonstrates the benefits of our services and a range of useful recommendations for us to take forward. I would highly recommend working with her.”
Matt Blacker, Hope for the Young, 2025
‘Berni worked as the researcher on our evaluation of a community based mental health project in one London Borough. She was very organised and responsive and took the lead on setting up and conducting interviews, keeping well to agreed timelines and always showing sensitivity and respect to participants. Berni led on the qualitative framework analysis, and the richness of the data led to a number of important findings that the local authority have used to inform future commissioning, and that we have written up as an academic paper. I would be very happy to work with Berni again.’
Judi Kidger, Associate Professor University of Bristol, 2025
“Berni worked with Hackney Giving (a part of Hackney CVS) to evaluate our grants programme for local charities supporting communities throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. This involved working with the statutory funders of the programme, voluntary sector programme partners and the community groups that received funding. Berni was approachable to all throughout the research phase and produced a comprehensive report covering the programme. We were pleased with the work and recommended Berni to colleagues within Hackney CVS, who then also used her evaluation services.”
Sarah Watson Hackney CVS, 2025
“It has been an absolute pleasure working with Berni over the past three years. The formative evaluation was such a useful approach for us, allowing us to continuously refine our delivery based on the on-going learning that Berni facilitated. This also put us in a stronger position to negotiate outcomes /outputs with our funder. It also helped that Berni’s value base was completely aligned to Mencap Cymru’s vision.“
Sian Davies, head of strategic Programmes/ Pennaeth Rhaglenni Strategol, Mencap Cymru, 2021
“The feedback and communication and processes were excellent. The team all felt that the evaluator quickly understood the complexities of the service and the unique issues this client group presented. Any issues were quickly resolved … The process of interviewing service users was well organised and easy to manage. The evaluation provided an opportunity for our service users to discuss their experiences of not only of our service but of their experience of being stalked, which they do not often get”
Changing pathways 2019
We really benefited from engaging Berni early on … This ensured that all the necessary evaluation tools were put in place at the start of the project. Berni was quick to understand our needs. She was organised, efficient and collaborative in her approach. Berni’s in-depth qualitative interviews gave us a better understanding of the multifaceted impact of our service, and the case studies she wrote brought the project to life and illustrated the nature of Contact’s work to prospective funders and the general public. We are very happy with Berni’s final evaluation report, which has provided strong evidence of the project’s effectiveness and has supported bids and funding appeals.”
Silvia Laraia, Monitoring and Evaluation Manager, Contact, 2019
‘Berni’s professional report.. helped us engage with decision makers and influence the developments in local children’s services‘
Emma Whitby, CEO Healthwatch Islington
‘Berni spent a lot of time in advance talking to staff and trustees and understanding our organisation. The result was she had a precise and clear understanding of our aims, mission, strengths and weaknesses… her intervention and suggestions were embraced, as it was clear she fully understood the organisation’s needs and aspirations.’
Saira Grant, CEO JCWI
“Very stimulating conversations and discussions thanks to Berni’s expertise, knowledge and skills and how she included participants. Nice balance of different activities where everybody could participate and contribute in their own way. Berni was careful to tailor the discussion to our needs/interests/questions/concerns. Lots of practical tips. I certainly learnt a lot. Also, nice to see how some of the research tips were applied to the course too”
Training course participant 2024
“Berni was excellent – incredibly knowledgeable and experienced on the topic and in delivering online training for a mixed group. The pace and format worked really well and I found it valuable – a huge amount learnt in a fairly short amount of time. I’ll recommend this course to colleagues“
Training course participant, 2024