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Funders and funded in harmony?
Steven Marwick, Evaluation Support Scotland Director, busts some myths about funders of the third sector
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Blog: Making it stick with an Impact Champions Group
Hannah Ormston talks about how she has taken the lead to evaluate the work of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Introduction The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) is an educational
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Blog: Building mutually beneficial relationships – funder and funded
Douglas Hamilton, R S Macdonald Trust talks about his hopes for mutually beneficial relationships with organisations they fund
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Blog: Community resilience groups getting the right support at the right time from Scottish Government
Kate Anderson, Policy Officer in Community Resilience Policy, Essential Services and Resilient Communities Unit, Scottish Government talks about her learning from visiting community resilience groups In September last year
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Blog: Clouds of Doom or Rays of Sunshine?
Steven Marwick, ESS Director explains ESS’s self-evaluation practice and what we do with our learning One day in April I returned from a meeting to find the ESS team hunched
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Blog: Got to get going!
In her farewell blog, Patty Lozano-Casal, Evidence into Action Manager reflects on her learning about evaluation I can’t believe it’s been over five and a half years since I left
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Blog: Doing what works – Finding the right evaluation method for your work can be a revelation
Andrew Findlay talks about how concentrating on approaches which fitted with his organisation’s way of working and service user group has helped Interest Link Borders produce a torrent of rich
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Blog: Collaborating for change – how do you measure success?
Steven Marwick, ESS’s director, talks about the challenges of evaluating collaborative work I regularly come across words like collaboration and coproduction. Defining these words can be challenging and I won’t attempt
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Blog: Impact measurement – a social activity
In this blog Lucy de Las Casas, NPC, and Patty Lozano-Casal, ESS, share their learning from Inspiring Impact’s first sub-sector partnership with Sported. Read how the process of measuring impact
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Blog: Sometimes it’s the simple things that help
Diane Kennedy, Depute Director, ESS shares a nugget of wisdom: ‘keeping things simple can often be best’ which she was reminded of when working on Threading the Needle in Glasgow.
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Blog: Gathering the threads – Horizontal Learning
Joanna Clark, Projects Manager works for Fife Voluntary Action and was involved in Threading the Needle in Fife. In her blog she reflects on horizontal learning and exchange between third
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Blog: Threading the Needle – All partners are equal partners
Annie Weir, Senior Engagement & Project Manager, North Ayrshire Health & Social Care Partnership worked with ESS on Threading the Needle in North Ayrshire. Here she tells us about some
