Learn From Your Findings

This section will help you use your findings to communicate what you have learnt and change your practice.

Pathway Diagram

Getting Started

Do you know why evaluation is important? Are staff and managers motivated to get started? Do you have clear statements about the difference you want to make as an organisation?

Collecting Information

Do you have statements that help you recognise the impact that you have? Do you have the right systems to enable you to measure what you do, and the difference that you make?

Using Consultants (Optional)

Do you know what you want from an external evaluation, and can you communicate that? Do you know how to go about commissioning consultants?

Analysing & Reporting

Do you know how to analyse the information you collect? Can you write a report about what you've done and the difference you've made?

Learn from your Findings

Do you know how to use the findings to improve your service? Do you know how to share your findings with others?

Resources

Case Studies

ESS case study: Hearts and Minds (using your findings)

Hearts & Minds work to promote the quality of life for people in hospital and hospice care. It delivers participative arts-in-health programmes: the Clowndoctors programme for children in ...

ESS Support Guides

ESS Support Guide10: Taking and using the learning from evaluation

This support guide explains about the many different ways you can use evaluation for example to get better at what you do, to engage service users, to secure funding and much more!

Toolkits & Guides

Effective Interventions Unit Evaluation Guide 5: Reporting and dissemination

This Guide sets out how to write up and disseminate your evaluation and highlights why the information is important and useful.

LEAP for Health

LEAP (Learning, Evaluation and Planning) for Health is the name given to a framework which aims to help those who work in community health settings to plan and evaluate their work in ...

Developed by Scottish Community Development Centre for Volunteer Centres Scotland in 2003. This planning and participatory self-evaluation tool was developed specifically for volunteer centres and ...

Mental health improvement: Evidence and practice - Guide 4: Making an impact

This is the fourth in a series of Evaluation Guides, which aim to encourage, support and improve standards in the evaluation of mental health improvement initiatives. impact. This guide discusses ...

Training

Governance and Evaluation Workshop

How do you know your organisation is making a difference? This workshop is for Trustees of voluntary and charitable organisations. ESS has put together this programme to get you ...

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