At ESS we work with all kinds of third sector organisations.
Our evaluation stories showcase how self-evaluation has helped some of these organisations, and aims to inspire others to think about their own evaluation!
Evaluation Stories
Read these stories to find out:
• How our Tailored Support or workshops have helped these organisations
• What the organisations learned and what they did with their learning
• What we learned
Evaluation Stories
Funeral Link
Funeral Link service manager, Linda attended Let’s Evaluate! workshops and received 2 sessions of tailored support to help draw out learning & be better able to communicate impact.
Evaluation Stories
ARC Scotland
Jackie from ARC Scotland applied her learning from ESS workshops to involve people with learning disabilities in setting outcomes for service commissioning.
Evaluation Stories
Pain Concern
We ran a tailored support session to help Pain Concern create a logic model, this enabled them to effectively redesign their feedback collection methods.
Evaluation Stories
Music 4 U
A range of support from ESS helped Music 4 U get to grips with evaluation, and got their team all on the same page.
Evaluation Stories
Edinburgh School Uniform Bank
Edinburgh School Uniform Bank received tailored support to help them with their evaluation methods.
Evaluation Stories
Hebridean Pursuits Outdoor Learning
ESS facilitated 2 tailored support sessions for HPOL: We helped them to draft their outcomes & indicators based on the need for their work.
Evaluation Stories
Edinburgh Food Project
We ran a series of support sessions with the Edinburgh Food Project. This support was mostly about creating a new evaluation framework: outcomes, indicators, & methods for the whole organisation.
Evaluation Stories
Girlguiding Scotland
Via tailored support we helped Girlguiding Scotland with their understanding of evaluation basics, & helped them learn about mapping project outcomes to strategic outcomes.
‘Crisis to recovery‘ Evaluation Stories
In 2020 and 2021 ESS supported sixteen projects affected by the Covid-19 crisis to evaluate and learn about their response to the crisis.
Read the stories below to find out:
• What these organisations did in response to crisis
• What methods they used in response
Evaluation Stories
Art in Healthcare
In 2020 and 2021 we supported Art in Healthcare, along with 15 other projects affected by the COVID-19 crisis, to evaluate and learn about their response to the crisis.
Evaluation Stories
Tasting Change
This evaluation story shows the kind of evidence organisations can collect to prove their contribution to tackling health inequalities. Tasting Change aims to tackle food insecurity, increase community awareness levels