News
Lynsey Kidd joins ESS as CEO
“One of the attractions of working at ESS is the opportunity to work with a diversity of organisations, and help them to understand and communicate the difference they make.”
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.
Blog
What does it mean to be an ESS Trustee?
This Trustees Week we celebrate the contributions of our trustees! In this blog 2 of our Trustees reflect on their time on the ESS Board!
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.
Blog Third Sector Research Forum
Working with University Researchers & Staff – Getting Started
This blog aims to introduce those in third sector organisations to some important features of collaborating with higher education institutions.
Evaluation Stories
Edinburgh School Uniform Bank
Edinburgh School Uniform Bank received tailored support to help them with their evaluation methods.
Blog
Scottish Book Trust – An Approach to Evaluation
In this blog, ESS Board Member Katherine – Head of Research & Evaluation at Scottish Book Trust – shares how evaluation is approached at SBT.
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Health & Wellbeing in Evaluation
In this wrap-up of our ‘Health and Wellbeing’ theme you will find a recap of the theme, including useful resources and content we shared!
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
Smart Play Network
We ran two tailored support sessions to help Smart Play Network
review evaluation plans, build staff comfort with evaluation and improve methods.
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.
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Wellbeing at ESS
Our wellbeing policy is about how we recognise and manage different needs so that we can all individually be at our best, and so that ESS can perform at its best!