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Let’s Evaluate! Workshop 2: Make to Measure (Winter 2025/26)

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Make to Measure: Evaluation Methods and Plans

This workshop is the second in our Let’s Evaluate! programme. Participants will benefit most if they attend all 3 ‘Let’s Evaluate!’ workshops in their intended order.

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Date/timeWednesday 4th & 11th of February, 2026, 10am – 1pm
LocationOnline (Zoom)
Cost per ‘Let’s Evaluate!’ workshop£132 incl VAT (£110 excl VAT)
Cost when booking all 3 ‘Let’s Evaluate!’ workshops together£360 incl VAT (£300 excl VAT)

Workshop Description

This creative workshop follows on from ‘Getting Started: Outcomes and Indicators.’

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 also consider how to keep evaluation proportionate to your work and resources.

 At this workshop you will:

  • Understand the steps and principles to follow when choosing or developing evaluation methods
  • Use different methods and tools to collect information about your outcomes
  • Put in place a monitoring and evaluation plan for your project /organisation

Who is this event for?

Staff or volunteers from third sector organisations in Scotland

Note: You must have attended our workshop Getting Started: Outcomes and Indicators before attending this workshop or you should have a strong understanding of outcomes. To check the strength of your understanding please read this page on setting outcomes and indicators before booking onto this workshop.

Date/Time

This is one workshop that will be delivered over 2 days. You must attend both parts of the workshop on both dates for the full learning.

Part 1: Wednesday 4th February 2026, 10.00 am – 1.00 pm
Part 2: Wednesday 11th February 2026, 10.00 am – 1.00 pm

Cost

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.

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.

cost
Booking an individual workshop£132 (inclusive of VAT)
Booking all 3 ‘Let’s Evaluate!’ workshops together£360 (inclusive of VAT)
Special Offer: Book onto all 3 workshops using the booking form below and pay a discounted price of £360 for your attendance – please note you will be charged in advance, this payment is non-refundable.

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.

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.

This workshop is the second in our Let’s Evaluate! programme.

Participants will benefit most if they attend all 3 in their intended order. The other 2 workshops are:

Workshop namepart 1part 2
Workshop 1Getting Started: Outcomes and IndicatorsWednesday 14th Jan 2026,
10am – 1pm		Wednesday 21st Jan 2026,
10am – 1pm
Workshop 3Telling my Story: Analysing and Reporting on OutcomesTuesday 24th Feb 2026,
10am – 1pm		Tuesday 3rd Mar 2026,
10am – 1pm
Use the form below to book onto all 3 workshops and pay only £360 for your attendance to all 3.

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?

We’re here to help! Contact us for help and advice.

Book your place on this workshop by completing the form below.

By completing the booking form below, you are agreeing to attend part 1 and part 2 of this workshop.  You do not need to complete an additional booking form for part 2.

Please note that we are aware of an issue with the booking form on this page. If you are not able to see and complete the booking form below, please complete the booking form via this link.

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Shona Watts

Senior Training Officer

About Shona

Shona joined ESS in February 2017. She spent many years prior to this working and volunteering in various areas of the third sector including youth work, criminal justice, and HIV & hepatitis C. 

Shona’s role at ESS involves developing and delivering our training programmes, as well as facilitating tailored evaluation support sessions. Her work is about helping organisations to plan their evaluation, keeping it simple and relevant to their context and the people they work with.

“My favourite part of my job is talking to organisations about fit-for-purpose evaluation; helping them to be clear about the difference they hope to make, how they know when they’re making it, and how best to capture that with their own situation and people in mind.

Often, many are pleasantly surprised to realise that they’re already doing it – they just don’t have it written down in a clear evaluation plan. That’s where I come in!”

Dr Gary Walsh

Senior Evaluation Support Manager

About Gary

Gary’s background is in education and project management of third sector programmes for children and young people. He completed his PhD at University of Glasgow. His research interests relate to social justice, citizenship, philosophy of education and trauma-informed practice. He initially trained and worked as a professional musician.

Gary is the Senior Evaluation Support Manager at Evaluation Support Scotland. He provides evaluation support to third sector organisations, including tailored support and more complex pieces of work, while also working on Business Development for ESS. He leads the Third Sector Research Forum and he works with colleagues at Scottish Government to improve funding relationships with the third sector. He also develops resources and delivers evaluation training workshops when demand is high.

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