Lessons Learned


This short document outlines lessons learned while providing grantholder evaluation support.

From 2017-21, Evaluation Support Scotland (ESS) ran an evaluation and learning support contract for grantholders of The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF) in Scotland.  

This report has headline lessons about

  • Providing grantholder support
  • What is good (enough) grantholder evaluation

This report will be of most interest to 

  • Funders who want to support grantholder learning
  • Others who support third sector evaluation and learning

Resource feedback

  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
  • If you use this resource, please consider giving us feedback on how you’ve used it and whether it was helpful to you.