When many of you originally applied to Comic Relief for your grants, you included an amount for evaluation. As you know Comic Relief took this out of your budget as they wanted to look at monitoring and evaluation across the whole portfolio of grants, and commissioned us to support you in the learning from this programme. However, Comic Relief has held back a small amount of funding to enable you to commission independent evaluation on aspects of your project where you feel this would add real value. For example, it may be difficult for older people to tell you what they think of the services you have provided to them, and would feel more comfortable talking to an independent person. This might be especially true of the projects providing direct support services, such as counselling.

If you feel that some independent evaluation would enhance your understanding of your work and its benefits, Comic Relief will consider providing you with the funds you will need to do this. This is not likely to exceed £3K. If you consider that you need more than this you will need to demonstrate why this is the case and what you hope to achieve by a larger evaluation budget.

In the first instance, you should get in touch with Blake Stevenson, and we will be happy to discuss your ideas further. You will need to complete a short form outlining what you want to do and what benefit you think independent evaluation will bring. Please click on the link below to access this form.

Independent Evaluation Request form (Word format - 34k)