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Involving young people to lead on evaluation?!
Isn’t that a bit risky? Surely young people wouldn’t be interested? How would we even get started on this? If these are some of the questions running through your mind
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Trust and Trustees: The role of Boards in encouraging reflective approaches to evaluation
Former ESS Convenor Jennifer Wallace writes about what it means for trustees to encourage reflective approaches to evaluating their organisation’s impact.
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Responding to feedback can be scary when it involves trying something new!
At ESS we’re always talking about acting on your learning from evaluation. This blog tells you how we used feedback to improve our Inspiring Impact event and increase our skills.
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Sharing the evaluation joy – What’s in store from ESS in 2019?
Happy new year! Eaten too much over Christmas? Full of woe about Brexit? Don’t despair! At ESS we remain relentlessly (foolishly?!) optimistic. In part because we are inspired by working
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We’re learning from you: how we use funded organisations’ evidence
Cassy Rutherford from The Robertson Trust explains how the Trust uses funded organisations’ evidence to improve their own processes and support the wider sector. As a funder, we receive a
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Reflection on Inspiring Impact events 2017/18
In this blog Elaine Mowat, The Welcoming, reflects on her experiences and learning from attending last year’s Inspiring Impact Network events. Reflection on Inspiring Impact events 2017/18 Making it stick,
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Developing evaluation culture in your organisation- a challenge worth taking on!
Louise Bowen, Knowledge and Networks Officer at Evaluation Support Scotland gives tips on how to get people on board with evaluation
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Blog written by Martha Lester-Cribb for The Alliance
It should be self-evident … “Third sector organisations provide quite a lot of the support available to help people with their self-management”. Not particularly controversial. “Good evidence helps service commissioners make
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Making sense of data or analysis paralysis?
In this blog Steven Marwick talks about the challenges of analysing evaluation feedback and asks what sort of support you need to do more advanced analysis on your data. You
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Sharing the news and feedback from your evaluation
Sharing the news and feedback from your evaluation – a reflective blog from Diane Kennedy about key messages she took away from our June Inspiring Impact network event Last month
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Fit-for-purpose evaluation – if I knew then what I know now!
Here Shona Wells, Training Officer, talks about how using fit-for-purpose evaluation methods can make life easier for the volunteers, service users and staff members involved Since joining the team at
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Networking for impact
Networking for impact Inspiring Impact’s partner in Scotland Evaluation Support Scotland (ESS) is a long-time advocate of peer learning and our experience is that people really value opportunities to make
