Francesca Grant

The Evidence Quarter

The Evidence Quarter (The EQ) is home to a growing number of evidence-minded organisations, including What Works Centres. Based in the heart of Westminster, The EQ is currently home to: - Centre for Evidence and Implementation - Early Intervention Foundation - Neighbourly Lab - Reform - The Centre for Homelessness Impact - The Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes - The Legal Education Foundation - Justice Lab UK - What Works for Children's Social Care - What Works Wellbeing The EQ aims to bring together centres to share physical space, increase collaboration, and tackle joint challenges together. Each evidence organisation exists for a reason – to tackle a particular problem, or to help a particular group – and the uniqueness of each centre is in some ways its strength, but we face common challenges; around methodology, building movements, and achieving an impact with the research that we do. Centres also overlap in their goals. Six of the current What Works Centres have young people as their main focus – whether their outcomes are in education, higher education or employment, or reducing the risk of harm. The more these organisations can work together, and share resources and ideas, the more impact they can have. The EQ aims to be more than just an office. We want to facilitate the organisations to become greater than the sum of their parts. We regularly host events and seminars from speakers on a variety of topics of interest to our members, and, through our community manager, host working groups and roundtables on areas of cross-cutting interest, including how LGBTQAI+ people are recognised and supported by research, and the use of multiple comparison testing in impactful research. Co-location will also allow organisations to share operational functions and secure better deals and rates from suppliers.