case studies

This page lists a range of case studies which you can read to find out more about our approach to a variety of clients in different areas of our work.

To find out more about our practices see the our skills pages.

School-Home Support

School-Home Support, a charity that works with vulnerable children and families in schools across the UK, wanted to show the economic value of it’s work to support its case for future funding. (more…)

Evidence of effectiveness & value for money

The Monument Trust, LankellyChase Foundation and The Bromley Trust wanted to know the economic case for and against the use of prison sentences in England and Wales. (more…)

Evidence informed giving

Matrix was commissioned by the Private Equity Foundation (PEF) to undertake research on young people not in education, employment or training (NEET). (more…)

Stakeholder engagement tools

The City of London Corporation - Fairtrade Steering Group uses the Matrix Knowledge Group stakeholder engagement tool as a web portal for its Fairtrade accreditation questionnaire (more…)

Waste Matters

CESMB (Centre for Environment and Safety Management for Business) uses aspirahub for its Waste Matters web based training programme, a pilot project funded by Defra. (more…)

Young People’s Substance Misuse Services (SMS)

Our web based Young Peoples Substance Misuse needs assessment application (SMS) was developed with Drug & Alcohol Action Teams (DAATs) to quantify the number of young people in need of substance misuse services by treatment tier (more…)

Academic Health Science Centre, London

The capacity planning module of aspirahub was used successfully to support the development of a strategic business case for the development of an Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC) for Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, St Mary’s NHS Trust and Imperial College. (more…)

United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust

The capacity planning module of aspirahub is being successfully used by United Bristol Healthcare NHS Trust to develop its corporate, clinical and capital planning strategies and specifically support local delivery plans and outline business cases for capital investment. (more…)

Department of Communities & Local Government (CLG) – Supporting People

We developed a web based cost modelling tool on behalf of the Dept of Communities and Local Government (CLG) for use by Supporting People commissioners. It was developed to assist them in determining what local Supporting People services should cost (more…)

Fairtrade in the City

The City of London Corporation - Fairtrade Steering Group uses aspirahub as a web portal for its Fairtrade accreditation scheme and to promote the use of Fairtrade products in the Square Mile. (more…)

EMI PLC

EMI PLC uses aspirahub for corporate reporting of Environmental Health & Safety and its CSR Framework.

Our system enables EMI’s Group Environmental & Social Director and her team to effectively meet their meet their environmental & social responsibility reporting requirements (more…)

Invensys Group

Invensys Group uses aspirahub® for CSR Reporting and stakeholder management.

We provide a fully managed web-based service: collecting, managing and reporting data from multiple business units globally. (more…)

Ministry of Justice – National Probation Service (NPS)

The National Offender Management Service (NOMS), the National Probation Service (NPS) and individual probation services use aspirahub® as a performance management solution. Using a secure web portal we provide an online data collection (more…)

Cambridgeshire PCT case study

Cambridgeshire PCT uses aspirahub for performance monitoring and management. Our staged solution is about improving and enhancing the PCT’s performance management reporting by initially focusing on Board reporting using dynamic dashboards. (more…)

The illicit drug trade in the United Kingdom

Matrix Knowledge Group was commissioned by the Home Office to undertake a large study on the illicit drug trade in the United Kingdom. You can read more about it here.

Development of an Information Strategy

Matrix is currently working with the Correctional Services Office for Contracted Prisons (Home Office) to provide support to improve its performance management. To date, this work has drawn extensively on key guidance from HM Treasury (more…)

National Evaluation of the Street Warden Programme

Street Wardens provide highly visible uniformed patrols in town and village centres, public areas and neighbourhoods. They build on the Neighbourhood Wardens Programme, but have more of an emphasis on caring for the physical appearance of the area. (more…)

Examination of the availabillity and quality of holistic advice provision for individuals with multiple legal needs

The DCA Strategic Research Unit commissioned Matrix and Cardiff University, led by Professor Richard Moorhead, to conduct research to examine how and when clients present with multiple legal needs when in contact with advice agencies and solicitors (more…)

Cost Effectiveness Analysis of Public Health Interventions

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence has taken responsibility for developing public health guidance in the same way that it undertakes technological appraisals. Whilst the process for undertaking technological appraisals was well developed, the extent to which this could be applied to the public health sphere was not fully understood. (more…)

A knowledge base for public health commissioners

The Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) commissioned Matrix to produce a toolkit to identify how public health approaches to maximise well-being (more…)