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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
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Blog: Threading the Needle – how we connect
Martha Lester-Cribb, Evaluation Support Manager who worked on Threading the Needle in Fife and North Ayrshire shares a pictorial illustration of ‘the layers of support in our society’ which was developed
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Blog: Threading the Needle – We’re still explorers
Helen MacKinnon, Chief Officer, Third Sector Interface, PKAVS (Perth & Kinross Association of Voluntary Service) gives her reflections on ‘Gathering the Needle’ – the final event of the Threading the
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Blog: Good conversations matter, and recording them is essential to making a difference – Meaningful and Measurable
Dr Emma Miller, Senior Research Associate at Strathclyde University, since 2012, talks about the importance of good conversations and the Meaningful and Measurable project which proved that conversations can be
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Blog: Learning is like any habit; it takes time to adopt it so don’t give up
Patty Lozano-Casal, Inspiring Impact lead for Evaluation Support Scotland, reflects on how Big Lottery Fund applies Principle 8 of The Code of Good Impact Practice: Actively share your impact plans,
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Blog: Bringing the human touch to measuring impact
Recently Áine Lovedale, Policy and Learning Adviser at Big Lottery Fund joined us for a ‘mini-secondment’. Whilst Aine was with us she looked at how, as a team, we go
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Blog: Installing a new database – ESS’s experience
Lydia Morrow, ESS’s Administration and Finance Manager, tells the story of ESS’s relationship with our new database including the ups and downs! “It is easy to be seduced by technology
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Blog: Understanding our different worlds for better third sector and academia collaborations
In this blog, Jane Marryat, Research and Communications Officer at ESS, shares her thoughts from ‘Let’s collaborate for impact’ As I was standing at the bus stop following the third
