5 Principles for good evaluation – Self-assessment
Is your evaluation good enough?
Use the 5 principles self-assessment template to judge if you’re happy with your evaluation.
Results for: 2025
5 Principles for good evaluation – Top-tips (Is your evaluation good enough?)
Our 5 principles for good evaluation can help you judge if you are happy with your evaluation. This resource provides some top tips on how to do this, as well as links to relevant free ESS resources.
ESS Annual Report 2024/25
Here you can download our Annual report and financial statement 2024/2025.
ESS Evaluation Method: Using social media to evaluate other activities
This method sheet can show you how to capture useful evidence from social media.
ESS Survey 2024 – ‘The Big Listen’
Our survey the ‘Big Listen’ was issued at the end of 2024, with the aim of learning how we can respond positively to the challenges facing the third sector. This report contains a summary of the findings.
Evaluation Leaders’ Network meeting report – March 2025
At this event members discussed evaluation approaches, tools, & resources that have worked for them in the past & learned about others that they’d like to use.
Shared learning programmes – what are the benefits of neutral facilitation?
Our Shared Learning Programme is a way of ‘reporting’ where we facilitate a series of learning events for funded organisations and write reports with thematic analysis, instead of organisations submitting
The Evaluation Pathway
Navigating the evaluation pathway is one way of getting started with your evaluation, or a good way of checking that you are progressing. This resource provides guidance to help you
Why bother involving people in evaluation? – Beyond feedback
This workbook can help you plan why, when and how to involve the people you work with in evaluation