Facilitated discussions | Practical action planning
At Evaluation Support Scotland, we understand that every organisation is different. That’s why our Tailored Support is designed to be fully flexible—offering dedicated time to help you meet your specific evaluation needs. Whether you’re just getting started or facing a complex challenge, we’ll work with you to strengthen your evaluation approach in a way that makes sense for your organisation.
What Can Tailored Support Help With?
Tailored Support is ideal for any evaluation challenge you’re facing as a team, project or organisation. Every package is custom-built to match the needs of the people we work with.
Examples of topics we often cover in Tailored Support:
| For Third Sector Organisations | For Funders |
| Developing or refining your evaluation plan | Planning how to evaluate the impact of your funding programme as a whole |
| Identifying outcomes and indicators that reflect your impact | Making the best use of the funding reports you receive |
| Gathering and using evidence to learn and improve | Thinking through what information to ask for in funding applications |
| Building staff and volunteer confidence in evaluation | Clarifying the outcomes for your funding |
| Embedding evaluation into your everyday work | Designing reporting templates for funded organisations |
| Involving your beneficiaries in evaluation | Drawing up evaluation support resources for funded organisations |
| Analysing and understanding your data | Exploring the challenges of evaluating the impact of core funding |
| Using your data to make evidence-based decisions about your work and services | |
| Demonstrating your contribution to strategic and national outcomes (i.e. logic modelling) | |
| Communicating your impact to different audiences |
Don’t see your challenge listed? No problem—Tailored Support is all about what you need.
How Does It Work?
We start with a free diagnostic call / email exchange to learn more about your organisation and the challenges you’re facing. Based on this, we suggest a package of support tailored just for you. We’ll provide you with a quote before you agree to any work.
Support typically involves one of our experienced team members working closely with a small group of your staff, volunteers, or trustees. This could be:
– A single focused session
– A series of focused sessions or workshops
– Ongoing support over a longer period
Everything—from format to frequency—is shaped around what works best for your organisation. Make an Enquiry and one of our team will be in touch to talk through your needs.
Who Is It For?
Tailored Support is suitable for organisations across the third sector. We also work with funders, and with public sector organisations – particularly in relation to delivery of frontline services and / or where there is a connection to the third sector.
We have experience working with organisations of all sizes, from small volunteer led charities to large national organisations. You can see examples of our work with organisations here.
Whether you’re new to evaluation or want to take your approach further, we’re here to help.
How Much Does It Cost?
As a charity, we’re committed to making evaluation support accessible. We keep our costs as low as possible, and every Tailored Support package is individually priced. We’re happy to talk through the options that best meet your needs and resources.
How does Tailored Support fit with our support?
| Service | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Training | Learn about evaluation |
| Evaluation Mentoring | Apply evaluation in your own role |
| Tailored Support | Develop evaluation across a team, service or organisation |
Let’s Talk
If you’d like to explore how Tailored Support can help your organisation, please send us an enquiry and one of our friendly team members will get in touch.
“We have so, so appreciated all that you have done for and with us; it’s been a real step-change and is already improving our reporting and our ability as teams to communicate our impact messages, as well as now feeding into our business planning.”
– Sarah Skerrat, CEO, Royal Society of Edinburgh
“Had been feeling a wee bit apprehensive about what we’d collected but you made me feel incredibly at ease and confident in the approach.”
– Robbie Gordon, Traverse Theatre
“Having the [tailored support] sessions in addition to training was a chance to dig deeper and work out what I really needed. The work ESS supported really helped me define the wellbeing outcome of our work, which has led to a few funding successes since.”
– Linda, Service Manager, Funeral Link