Evaluation
We assess delivery, outcomes and context, generating insight that helps you improve, adapt and evidence your work.
Learning and evaluation
We help our partners use evidence, reflection and participation to improve outcomes for people, places and systems.
Using learning to address the root cause of social issues
Using a place-based systems change approach, we look beyond outcomes to the conditions, relationships, power dynamics and resources that shape them. This helps partners understand how change is happening, who it affects, what is supporting progress and what may be holding it back.
Learning partnerships
We work alongside you in real time, helping you reflect, test, adapt and learn as your work develops.
Participatory methods
We build credible and meaningful evidence with people most affected by social challenges, centring lived expertise.
Learning Partnerships & Evaluation
Turning evidence into stronger practice through learning
We work alongside funders, charities, public bodies and place-based partnerships to embed learning into strategy, delivery and decision-making. We create the spaces, tools and evidence partners need to reflect, adapt and improve in real time, combining research, evaluation and systems-change practice to strengthen outcomes for people, communities and places.
We believe that evaluation must challenge systemic inequities, power imbalances, and historical disparities rather than reinforcing them. Our approach starts with clarity about purpose and power: who the work is accountable to, who has a stake in its outcomes, and who should shape the questions, methods and interpretation.
We work with you to design processes where people most affected by the work you’re doing will have meaningful influence over what is explored, how evidence is interpreted and how insights inform action. When lived and learned experience hold authority in the learning process, evaluation becomes more ethical, grounded and accountable.
Explore our Tools and Frameworks
Tools to help you navigate complexity
Our practical tools and frameworks to help you navigate complexity in your systems change and place-based work. We develop all our resources through real work and practice, not just theory. Explore our tools for Place-Based Learning and Evaluation, Co-Design, and Systems Thinking.
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Service design &
Co-production
Through co-design and co-production, we bring the right people into the room, especially those whose voices are often missing from decision-making, to shape change together.
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Place-based
Systems Change
We explore the root causes and nuances of social issues in ways that centre the people most affected, challenging how knowledge is shaped and shared.
Research and knowledge