Case study:Achates develops Strategy: The Royal Literary Fund

Trustees and staff all found the review Achates undertook to be constructive, informed and informative. While respecting and acknowledging all that had been achieved so far, Achates also provided valuable propositions and provocations for future development. It was a pleasure working with them (again).

Edward Kemp, Chief Executive

The Royal Literary Fund (RLF) is a British charity that has been supporting authors since 1790, among them James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Dylan Thomas and Edith Nesbit. RLF provides grants to writers in financial difficulty: novelists, poets, playwrights, screenwriters and translators.

The RLF runs education programmes where writers deploy their talents for the wider benefit. The Fellowship scheme funds writers to work one-to-one with university students. It also provides writing development workshops to schools and our community projects nurture resilience, engagement and empowerment.

Achates was brought in by the RLF to conduct a programme evaluation of the Fellowship Scheme. The Review employed a three-part evaluation framework to consider process, impact and value for money. Achates conducted a review of the landscape in which the RLF is operating as well as an extensive consultation process with Fellows, university partners and comparator literature organisations to provide the Board and Senior Leadership with an informed programme review of the RLF Fellowship Scheme in advance of the development of a full business model.

Photo credit: Royal Literary Fund / Adïam Yemane

Case study:Achates develops Strategy: The Royal Literary Fund

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