The Charity Evaluation Working Group ( ChEW)

🎆ChEW's Festival of Impact & Evaluation returns for the second year running🎆   In 2024 we held our first in-person event since the Covid pandemic and it was wonderful to be able to get our members together IRL. Last year's festival was such a success that we had to run it again in 2025 - this time we'll be holding at Resource for London, in north London on 11/06/2025.   The theme for this year's festival is 'Making the most of evaluation', and just like last year, we we're looking for speakers who can talk to one or more of the following: 💡Turning learning into action: How do we extract actionable insights from evaluations and translate them into real-world changes? 🗣️ Communicating with impact: How can we effectively share evaluation findings (successes, challenges, and learnings) to drive change? 🌟Cultivating an evaluation-positive culture: How can we shift the culture so that organisations see it as fundamental to achieving their goals We want to amplify diverse voices and are particularly interested in speakers from Black, Asian, and other ethnic minority backgrounds.   Submit your abstract today for a chance to speak at the festival: https://lnkd.in/e-a964rH

Fellow independent evaluators, heads of evaluation, evaluation managers, and all-around evaluation aficionados – I need your help! We all know that charities, social enterprises and other organisations can struggle to share their evaluation findings, often for a variety of reasons. I’m on the hunt for examples of where funders, commissioners, infrastructure organisations or others are encouraging the partners they work with to share their evaluation findings and lessons with others. I’m interested in examples from any and all sectors – from education to health, housing to human rights, community development to international development - to help me with an internal piece of research I'm working on for a client. Please add any ideas or suggestions below, or message me directly! --- I'm Tim. I help charities have a bigger impact through better measurement. #Charities #SocialPurpose #ImpactMeasurement #Evaluation Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash

In our sector, interventions take place in dynamic, unpredictable, and complex environments.   For our next event we will explore robust evaluation methods that move beyond traditional hierarchies of methodology, comparing systems and project-based approaches.   We'll examine how to embed these frameworks in practice, focusing on rigour and the purpose of evaluation.   Date: 13/03/2025   Time: 12:00pm - 1:15pm   Where: Online via Zoom   Speakers:   Kerry McCarthy, Independent Consultant   Stephen Miller, Independent Consultant Secure your spot today: https://lnkd.in/e_Y5JUFs

📢 Calling all evaluation enthusiasts! We're planning our next festival focused on: Making the most of evaluation (more on this next week). In the meantime, we're looking for speaker nominations who can talk to one or more of the following: 💡 Turning learning into action: How do we extract actionable insights from evaluations and translate them into real-world changes? 🗣️ Communicating with impact: How can we effectively share evaluation findings (successes, challenges, and learnings) to drive change? 🌟 Cultivating an evaluation-positive culture: How can we shift the culture so that organisation's see it as fundamental to achieving their goals Who do you want to see? We want to amplify diverse voices and are particularly interested in speakers from Black, Asian, and other ethnic minority backgrounds. Share your suggestions in the comments! 👇 George Thompson-Dunne Charlotte Fielder Claudia Useche Trujillo David Salisbury Karen Scanlon Kelly Bradshaw-Walsh Kristy Evers Milka Fisiha💚🧡 Vinal K Karania Yu-Shan Chiu #evaluation #learning #impact #culture #festival

Exciting news from the Equitable Evaluation Collective (EEC) - we're moving towards a decentralised governance model! A few weeks ago we facilitated a governance workshop to explore what a more decentralised model could look like. We discussed how EEC can better reflect and serve our growing community, creating a shared mission and how decision-making could be more democratic. We've got lots of ideas about how we take this forward, demonstrating our commitment to open communications and collective decision-making. Link in comments if you're interested in reading more about what's next. Huge thanks to Kelley Buhles for sharing her wisdom so generously. #EquitableEvaluation #Governance #Community #CollectiveDecisionMaking

Sometimes using traditional evaluation tools, like surveys, can feel like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole - they don’t work. Creative methods can be a more engaging and inclusive alternative. In our next event, Jami Dixon, from @BrightImpactCIC will provide an introduction to creative methods, when they can work well, and some challenges to think about. By the end of it, you’ll be familiar with what creative methods are, and have some ideas about what methods may work in your context. 🗓️ Date: 19 February 🕛 Time: 12:00 - 12.45 pm 💻 Where: Online via Zoom Book your spot now: https://lnkd.in/edpNGdd9

🎊 One week left to apply for our exciting Head of ChEW role! 🎊

Sometimes using traditional evaluation tools, like surveys, can feel like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole - they just don’t work.   Creative methods can be a more inclusive alternative. For our first webinar of 2025, Jami Dixon will provide an introduction to creative methods, when they can work well and some challenges to think about.   By the end of it, you’ll be familiar with what creative methods are and have some ideas about what methods may work in your context.   Date: 19/02/2025   Time: 12:00pm   Where: Online via Zoom We look forward to seeing you there! ChEW members can book now: https://lnkd.in/eANd-KhV

🚨 Exciting Opportunity Alert! 🚨 ChEW is on the lookout for an inspiring leader to join us on a freelance basis as the Head of ChEW. If you’re passionate about advancing evaluation practices and supporting the UK’s voluntary, community, and social enterprise sector, this could be the role for you! 💼 Role: Head of ChEW (freelance) 📍 Location: Remote ⏰ Commitment: 2-3 days/month (freelance) 💷 Day rate: £300-£500, depending on experience The deadline for applications is 5pm, Monday 10th February 2025. Join us in empowering evaluators to drive social impact. Find out more in the document attached and apply here: https://lnkd.in/e5PfUyzp Let’s shape the future of evaluation together! 🌟

As 2024 comes to a close, we’re proud to reflect on another productive year at ChEW. This year, we’ve delivered a diverse programme of events, a festival, and activities designed to support and connect our members, and share best practices across the sector.   None of this would have been possible without your engagement and support, and we want to thank you for being an essential part of our community.   Looking ahead to 2025, we’re excited to continue building on these successes and delivering even more opportunities to learn, connect, and drive positive change together.   See our calendar of events for the year and start planning your involvement in ChEW activities in 2025: