| This booking page is for all 3 of our Let’s Evaluate! Workshops. |
| Location: Online (Zoom) |
| Cost: £360.00 incl VAT (£300 excl VAT) |
Let’s Evaluate! is a training programme made up of 3 workshops designed to help third sector organisations demonstrate the difference they make, taking participants through each stage of the evaluation pathway.
This training programme will involve a combination of: trainer input to explain evaluation simply; exercises to help participants understand evaluation; and time for participants to apply the learning to their own work.
Our three Let’s Evaluate! workshops follow a sequence and most people find it best to attend all three in order; but you can pick and choose. Please go back to our book a workshop/event page to find individual workshop dates available for booking.
Workshop Dates/Times
| Workshop Name | Date | Time | |
| Workshop 1 | Getting Started: Outcomes and Indicators | Thursday 6th November 2025 | 9.30am – 4.30pm |
| Workshop 2 | Make to Measure: Evaluation Methods and Plans | Thursday 20th November 2025 | 9.30am – 4.30pm |
| Workshop 3 | Telling my Story: Analysing and Reporting on Outcomes | Thursday 4th December 2025 | 9.30am – 4.30pm |
Who is this event for?
Staff or volunteers from third sector organisations in Scotland.
Cost
£360.00 inclusive of VAT for your attendance at all 3 workshops.
Please note that this a special offer price for booking onto all 3 of our workshops in one go, therefore this advance payment will be non-refundable except when ESS has to cancel the workshops.
Some funders will pay for evaluation support so third sector organisations should always ask their funder if that’s an option. Click here for more information.
Joining Information
We are running all 3 workshops 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.
Workshop Descriptions
Workshop 1: Getting Started: Setting Outcomes and Indicators
In the first workshop you will learn what outcomes and indicators are and how they can help explain the difference your work makes. You will learn how to set project-level outcomes that are relevant to your service users, and how to identify indicators to help you measure those outcomes.
Workshop 2: Make to Measure: Evaluation Methods and Plans
In second workshop you will explore the questions and processes involved in choosing fit-for-purpose evaluation methods; those that will help you measure your outcome indicators in a way that suits your project and its service users. You will learn how to put in place a monitoring and evaluation plan for your project/organisation and how to keep evaluation proportionate to your work and resources.
Workshop 3: Telling my Story: Analysing and Reporting on Outcomes
The third (and final) workshop investigates how to pull evidence together and make sense of it, even though it might be coming from different places and consist of different types of data. Using evaluation for learning is just as important as using it to provide outcome evidence for your funders and this workshop examines how you can achieve both and more.
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 our workshops:
We 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?
We’re here to help! Contact us for help and advice.
Book your place on this round of Let’s Evaluate! workshops by completing the form below:
