Contribution analysis is a way to show the impact or progress of an activity or piece of work by focusing on how things that are more easy to measure ‘contribute’ to longer term, or higher-level outcomes.
Read MoreUnderstanding Scottish Places is an online tool that helps you to better understand and compare the places where you work and live. Just type the name of any town in Scotland into the search bar to get started.
Read MoreOpen Data Scotland acts as a central hub for finding open data from all around Scotland, including in your local area. From here you can find local data relating to everything from more important issues such as air quality management and community council boundaries to the more trivial such as baby first names.
Read MoreThe SIMD is a way of helping understand and find which areas in Scotland are ‘deprived’. It could be useful if you want to understand more about the profile of neighbourhoods in your area and where services could be targeted, or if you need to show data relating to poverty and inequality in your community, such as for a funding application.
Read MoreThe CHEX briefing puts the onus on statutory organisations and funders to unravel their old ways of working with and thinking about evidence so that they can make better use of evidence from communities and third sector and community organisations. It contains some mini case studies and could be useful for community groups thinking about how they evidence their own work.
Read MoreCommunity Knowledge Matters is a network bringing together people interested in community-led research shaping practice & policy change in mental health and wellbeing in the Highlands & Islands and beyond.
Read MoreSupport is available to help voluntary and community organisations to collect and use statistical data, including from the Royal Statistical Society and the Scottish Government.
Read MoreThis toolkit helps you to measure the impact of existing work on social capital, health and wellbeing, to think about your outcomes and develop new ideas. It includes a range of tools and templates to assist you with logic modelling, weekly diaries, recognised measures of mental health and questionnaires.
Read MoreHow good is our third sector organisation? (HGIOTSO) is a self-evaluation resource created to support third sector organisations of all sizes to evaluate their performance and to identify priorities for action.
Read MoreEvaluation Support Scotland (ESS) works with voluntary organisations and funders so that they can measure and report on their impact.
Read MoreA step-by-step guide to evaluating community projects published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) back in 2005, based on work with 20 groups and projects across England and Wales.
Read MoreEvidence for Success is a series of guides which support you to engage with evidence in different ways to influence policy and practice and to improve your own work with your communities
Read MoreThis Scottish Government website gives access to a range of official statistics about neighbourhoods in Scotland. You can find data on health, education, poverty, unemployment, housing, population, crime and social/community issues.
Read MoreBased on the experience of collaborative research in Wester Hailes, Edinburgh, this guide aims to help community partners and academics maximise the benefits of research that is coproduced between communities and academic researchers based in a university.
Read MoreStory dialogue is a research method that generates insights from people’s experiences and reflections. This briefing from Community Health Exchange (CHEX) introduces story dialogue as way to do research with your community and share lessons across public and community/voluntary sectors. It’s a bit dense at times but takes you through the whole process step-by-step.
Read MoreARC is a clearly written, practical, guide for community and voluntary groups carrying out research in and with their communities.
Read MoreThird Sector Lab provides consultancy, training and strategy to help charities get the most out of digital. They provdie a wide range of services, from website design to demonstrating impact using animation, video and multimedia content.
Read MoreThe Scottish Government has created a resource which community organisations can use to find equality policies in relation to both equality characteristic and policy areas.
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