Workshop Date/Time
Tuesday 9th December 2025, 10.00 am – 1.00 pm
Joining Information
We are running this workshop using Zoom. We’ll email in advance with a link, password and all the materials you will need for the workshop. For more information, please read our Participant guide for using Zoom.
Who is this event for?
Staff or volunteers from third sector organisations in Scotland.
Cost
£96.00 inclusive of VAT
Workshop Description
Prevention work is challenging and complex – evaluating the difference this work makes can be especially difficult. There are many questions to consider: what is prevention, exactly? How do you evaluate something that hasn’t happened? How do you know which intervention made the difference in the long term?
While there are no magic answers, this workshop will provide practical tips and tools on how to tackle the challenge. See our Evaluating Prevention resource for more information.
At this workshop you will learn to:
- Clarify what you’re preventing and for whom
- Identify protective factors to generate positive outcomes
- Use the above to create a theory of change
- Use evidence to report on prevention activities
Important note:
This workshop is not a full training in the principles and practices of evaluation, like the Let’s Evaluate programme, but it does provide a very brief overview of that before focussing on evaluating prevention in particular. Pre-existing knowledge of evaluation is not essential but would be helpful.
How our workshops run:
There will be a mixture of PowerPoint presentation and trainer guided exercises. We’ll help you learn from other participants and apply the learning to your work. There will be an icebreaker exercise at the start of the day to get to know each other. Participants will be placed in small groups to complete group activities.
For an engaging learning environment, we expect all attendees to actively participate in our workshops and to commit their full attention to the whole session. Please read our digital etiquette and best practice for online events.
About ESS workshops:
Evaluation Support Scotland are accessible. We use plain English. We work in a way that meets the different needs and abilities of people and organisations. We ask you if you have any access needs when we work with you and ensure that, as far as possible, we meet them. Please ask us if you want to see our equalities policy.
Got any questions?
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