Andy Gawin Warby

Monday 18 May - Workshop Measuring what matters: Social impact and shared data practices in festivals

Andy provides a professional background in cultural heritage management and conservation, and project delivery linking arts, nature, and health and wellbeing commissioning. 

At international and regional level, he has delivered large scale social and economic impact evaluations for a range of museums, galleries, venues and street festivals, covering programme and audience development, local tourism spending, and volunteering transformation. This has included Manchester Museum, the British Museum-funded South Asia Gallery; dementia and wellbeing through opera, arts and culture; and training a network of museums in Tuscany, Italy, in assessing Alzheimers-inclusive programming at their venues. 

For over 15 years, Andy has also been championing best practices in Social Return on Investment and impact assessment, health and wellbeing impact studies, inclusive stakeholder engagement, and social cost-benefit appraisal, as co-founder of Envoy Partnership, and co-founder of the SROI platform, Social Value Manager. His work has directly unlocked over £5 billion of new contract revenue, funding, and investment value for numerous clients. 

During Covid and up until 2023, Andy was a trustee of a disability cycling charity in the New Forest National Park in the England, and more recently volunteers at his local hospice for seriously ill children. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts. 

Andy’s personal and family life has involved music concerts and festival ecosystem for many years, having himself played as a drummer and saxophonist in a number of groups and mini-festivals, and avidly attending stadium concerts and festival tours through his brother’s work as an international concert and festival booker – additionally gaining insights into extensive supply chain effects.