Project and Organisational Evaluations

Many organisations have realised the benefits of engaging TGA to conduct and produce professional, independent, external evaluations as an aid to demonstrating their achievements and improving and developing their services. In many cases these evaluations have assisted organisations in successfully negotiating for further funding and helped to ensure the longer term sustainability of projects and programmes. In many cases an external evaluation has been requested and funded by a grant maker such as a government body, lottery funder or grant making foundation.

An evaluation may focus on one or more (or all) of the following aspects: your organisation’s structure, how you deliver your services, what your users think about your service, what benefits (or outcomes) your service is bringing about and the longer term change your project or service is making in the lives of your clients or within your sphere of interest.

Many organisations find that most benefit can be derived by working with TGA from the beginning of a project rather than simply asking for an external evaluation to be conducted towards the end of a project time period. By employing the TGA evaluation team at the outset we can help with the setting of aims, objectives and targets and assist you in establishing ways whereby progress and achievement on inputs (e.g. staff and volunteer time and funds), outputs (e.g. project activities such as resources produced, training courses delivered, people assisted, etc), outcomes (real and positive differences in the lives of your service users or community) can be measured.

In some cases, organisations employ TGA to produce an external evaluation towards the end of a given project time period. This will often involve us in an element of research such as meetings with project staff, key stakeholders (e.g. statutory referral agencies, committee members, etc) and service users.

In most cases the evaluation process results in a written report detailing background, findings, conclusions and recommendations. In many cases TGA can make audio visual presentations of findings to key stakeholder meetings such as management committee members, referral agents and funders.