This step will help you to:
- Understand your data
- Present it in a meaningful way.
Workshops:
Telling my story: Analysing and Reporting on Outcomes is the third workshop in our Let’s Evaluate! programme and is the best training to continue your learning about how to analyse your data and to report the difference you are making.
Resources for Analysing and Reporting
Reporting to funders – Good evaluation should be useful and used by you. However, most third sector organisations also have to report to funders. Click here for tips and resources about reporting to funders.
Case studies
Funders and Funded Relationships Case Study: Clear communication and constructive feedback (Befrienders Highland)
Shows how the Big Lottery Fund supports the organisations they fund throughout the application and reporting stages.
Funders and Funded Relationships Case Study: Doing something different to feedback to our funders (Lightburn Elderly Association Project)
Shows funders how being flexible with reporting requirements can help funded organisations tell their story.
Support Guides
Support Guide 3c – Case studies
This guide looks at how organisations can use case studies to illustrate the impact of their work. Case studies not only help to bring reports to life, but they can be used in a variety of other ways depending on the audience and purpose.
Support Guide 3b – Report writing
This guide helps organisations think about how to turn their evaluation information in to a report for funders and others.
Support Guide 3a – Analysing information for evaluation
This guide covers how organisations can analyse and make sense of the information they have gathered through evaluation so they can write reports.
Making Sense: Analysing quantitative information
This is a supplementary sheet to ESS Support Guide 3a – Analysing information for evaluation about analysing quantitative information.
Making Sense: Analysing as you go
This is a supplementary sheet to ESS Support Guide 3a – Analysing information for evaluation about analysing information as you go.
Making Sense: Analysing qualitative information
This is a supplementary sheet to ESS Support Guide 3a – Analysing information for evaluation about analysing qualitative information.
Reports
New principles for grant reporting (December 2018)
‘Funder-led. Bureaucratic. Time-consuming. Misunderstood.’ All words that have been used to describe UK grant reporting – the process (or processes) by which charities report their progress to funders. A group
Evaluation tools
Quirkos
Quirkos is a qualitative analysis software package which has been developed by social researchers to allow researchers to visually analyse qualitative text data and present them statistically.
ESS Evaluation Tool: Reporting Template
This template sets out what most funders are looking for in reports. It is taken from Harmonising Reporting – a document produced by ESS and Scotland Funders’ Forum.
Evaluation Guides
Stats & Stories in community settings: a guide to blending different types of evidence in evaluation reports
This guide is aimed at third sector organisations. It is a practical guide to reporting on outcomes blending qualitative and quantitative information.
Other Resources
Building mutually beneficial relationships – Top tips for Funded Organisations
Top tips for funded organisations about how to build mutually beneficial relationship with their funders.
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