About Us
About Us | History | Mission, Values and Strategic Plan | Staff | Board | Annual Report
Mission, Values and Strategic plan
Our Mission
To provide specialist support to voluntary organisations and funders to enable them to evaluate and learn and so provide better services for communities. We do this by helping voluntary organisations and funders access evaluation tools and expertise, and working to embed evaluation within funding and policy-making structures.
We believe that by improving evaluation capacity and skills, addressing the barriers to evaluation and increasing learning from evaluation this will lead to better and more effective services for communities.
Operating values
We are accessible. We use plain English. We are friendly. We work in a way that meets people's different needs and abilities.
We leave organisations with the skills to continue evaluating and learning once ESS support has finished.
We work in positive partnership with others, sharing our expertise and learning and adding value to the expertise of others.
Our focus is on outcomes. But we do not promote a single evaluation tool. And we use different and creative ways to engage people in evaluation.
We promote a culture of learning within ESS, including seeking feedback from everyone we work with so we learn from our successes and weaknesses and get better at what we do.
Scottish Charity Number: SC036529, Scottish Company Number: SC284843