Case Studies

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99. How Kada Shaped Rail Skills Strategy for Chesterfield Borough Council and Barrow Hill

99. How Kada Shaped Rail Skills Strategy for Chesterfield Borough Council and Barrow Hill

The UK rail sector faces a growing skills crisis - an ageing workforce, rising retirement rates and critical shortages in engineering, signalling and technical roles. For Chesterfield, home to a significant cluster of rail firms, these pressures hit…
82. Evaluation of ASSIST’s Refugee Family Housing Pilot

82. Evaluation of ASSIST’s Refugee Family Housing Pilot

Kada Research were commissioned by the Sheffield-based refugee and asylum charity ASSIST to evaluate their housing pilot, which housed individuals who have been granted asylum in the UK. Kada were asked to evaluate stakeholder, landlord and tenant perceptions…
76. Evaluation of the Sheffield City Council’s Economic Recovery Fund Round One

76. Evaluation of the Sheffield City Council’s Economic Recovery Fund Round One

In the Summer of 2022, Kada evaluated the first phase of Sheffield City Council’s (SCC) Economic Recovery Fund, a £2 million fund designed to support post Covid-19 high street recovery in the city’s district centres. To increase footfall…
67. Getting Into Rail: Evaluating the University of Birmingham’s DIGI RAIL West Midlands Programme

67. Getting Into Rail: Evaluating the University of Birmingham’s DIGI RAIL West Midlands Programme

Kada Research were commissioned by the University of Birmingham to evaluate the ERDF funded DIGI-RAIL West Midlands programme which has helped to diversify the rail industry supply chain and bring more digital technologies to the rail sector.
66. Evaluation of a community public safety service pilot in North Yorkshire

66. Evaluation of a community public safety service pilot in North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire’s Police, Fire & Crime Commissioner commissioned Kada Research to evaluate North Yorkshire’s public safety service (PSS) pilot. The PSS provides generalist support to the community and targeted interventions preventing harm and risk, particularly to vulnerable residents…
47. Heanor’s Future High Streets Fund economic case development

47. Heanor’s Future High Streets Fund economic case development

We would like to express grateful thanks to you all, for your hard work and expertise throughout the process and ensuring that we compiled a robust application, providing us with the best possible business case to aim to…
46. Helping almost 1,000 first-time and new exporters across Yorkshire and Humber.

46. Helping almost 1,000 first-time and new exporters across Yorkshire and Humber.

Kada has been professional and approachable throughout, and we have commissioned them to undertake a final study at the end of 2020 for the extension of the same programme.
38. Swift uptake of new high-quality units at new business park in Rotherham

38. Swift uptake of new high-quality units at new business park in Rotherham

This major 64,000 sq. ft development, at Forge Way in the Parkgate area of Rotherham, was built speculatively by local developer E V Waddington and offers 10 industrial and manufacturing units. Like many speculative industrial developments in South…
37. Maximising exporting in the creative sector in Leeds City Region

37. Maximising exporting in the creative sector in Leeds City Region

The West Yorkshire Combined Authority commissioned Kada Research to undertake a review of exports for the creative sector. As a significant sector within the region, the LEP was considering how it could best add value and support creative…
5: EU Textile collaboration study

5: EU Textile collaboration study

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6: Economic development strategy

6: Economic development strategy

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14: Humber LEP

14: Humber LEP

Here as sub-contractors to ekosgen we worked closely with the LEP team and partners to craft a narrative for the area around the Energy Estuary underpinned by evidence and agreed by stakeholders. Kada was also commissioned with ekosgen…