
Assessing and Managing Value for Money – Lessons for NGOs
This report presents an analytical framework for approaching value for money that can be applied at project, portfolio and organisational levels.
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Assessing and Managing Value for Money – Lessons for NGOs
This report presents an analytical framework for approaching value for money that can be applied at project, portfolio and organisational levels.

Assessing and Managing Value for Money – Lessons for NGOs – Summary
This is a summary of the main report which presents an analytical framework for approaching value for money that can be applied at project, portfolio and organisational levels.

Befriending outcomes (Extract from The Source to the sea)
This extract from The Source to the Sea gives examples of outcomes for befriendees, volunteer befrienders, local communities, amenities and businesses, and those commissioning befriending services.

ESS Annual Review 2015/16
This review sets out the highlights of what we did and the difference we made in 2015/16.

Everyone has a story
Between 2015 -16 ESS worked with the Partnership Drugs Initiative (PDI) on a programme to hear the voices, opinions and feelings of young people whose parents are in recovery from problem alcohol

Evidence for Success: Collaborating with academics (2016)
This guide is for anyone in the third sector who wants to link to academics to generate and/or use evidence to improve policy and practice

Evidence for Success: Collaborating with academics (2016) – Infographic
This guide is for anyone in the third sector who wants to link to academics to generate and/or use evidence to improve policy and practice. It provides practical guidance and

Evidence for what? An infographic about evidence
This infographic – created for a panel discussion at Realising Ambition learning event in Birmingham – shows Evaluation Support Scotland’s learning about evidence.

Guide to evaluation by the Big Lottery Fund
This short guide to evaluation includes lots of tips about what evaluation is all about at Big Lottery Fund.

How to explore decision making and the role of evidence
This guide describes the process that was used to help an organisation review & improve their Integrated Care Fund decision making.