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Same but better – our new website design
How our new website aims to make content and design more accessible, and how we used evaluation to help us with design decisions.
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ESS Winter Newsletter 2020/21
In this newsletter we kick off our ‘Evidence use’ theme, include links to upcoming online events, new resources and more.
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TSRF Winter Newsletter 2020
In this newsletter we feature the TSRF 2021 online conference, Policy Scotland-TSRF January 2021 event and research updates from members.
Booking now open for TSRF-Policy Scotland online event on 20 January 2021
Mark your 2021 calendars with the TSRF-Policy Scotland online event: Innovating in the third sector – online research and services in 2020.
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TSRF Autumn Newsletter 2020
In this issue we feature the Policy Scotland-TSRF virtual seminar event report, a spotlight on new forum member Cattanach, and research updates from our members. View the newsletter here.
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Autumn Newsletter 2020
See our Activities and Impact Report 2019/2020, our new logic modelling webinar and more from ESS View this newsletter here.
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Flexibility and adaptability sums up ESS’s 2019/2020
ESS’s Activities and Impact Report 2019/2020 highlights how we are flexible and adaptable in meeting the needs of the organisations we support. We worked with a total of 618 organisations last year! The report details the difference we made to third sector organisations and
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Where are the Trustees in the Trustees Annual report?
ESS Director Steven Marwick shares how our trustees got involved in shaping our Trustees’ Annual Report.
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Do we need a framework in a crisis?
Once upon a time in a world where tinned tomatoes and toilet rolls were abundant and hairdressers didn’t dress like welders, I spent a lot of time talking about the wonderful National Performance Framework (NPF). But one thing we’ve learned through this crisis is that some things we used to think were important are totally not.
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What we have learned so far about online delivery
Like many third sector organisations, at ESS we have had to adapt quickly to deliver our services in new ways during lockdown.
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ESS Funder Newsletter August 2020
In this special Funder newsletter issue we tell you about what we’ve learned from third sector organisations and how we’ve supported them.
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Patchwork of evidence – Questions to plan for your ‘new’ normal
As we begin to contemplate the easing of lockdown in Scotland and what phase 2 and 3 will bring in the coming months, we must begin to think about how
