Greenwich Healthier Communities: Evaluation and Impact Assessment

DG Cities is undertaking an independent evaluation of the Greenwich Healthier Communities Fund, on behalf of the NHS Greenwich Charitable Funds. Project leads are now invited to participate in the evaluation process, to share their experiences and the outcomes of the grants they received. 

The evaluation is an opportunity for your stories and learning to be shared - covering changes in health and wellbeing for local people - and the experience of your organisation or team.

Your feedback is also useful, to help improve the Greenwich Healthier Communities Fund for future community recipients. 

There are different ways for projects to participate. 

Everyone will be invited to take part in this open process covering:

1. Questionnaires to share your views and experiences. These can be undertaken in conversation with us or through an online form.

2. Workshops for monitoring and evaluation knowledge exchange delivered DG Cities to support your organisation going forward.

Some projects will also be randomly selected to be invited to a 1:1 discussion over the coming months. This is an opportunity to share more with us.

Next steps

1. Be ready to receive your invitation to our questionnaire! You will be contacted about this timeline, given where you are in your grant delivery. (see below)

2. Learn more. Check out our Quick Guide #1 to the evaluation and the questionnaire here. This includes key information, terms and tips for completing your questionnaire (e.g. defining beneficiary types and impacts) and frequently asked questions (FAQs).

   You can also see our workshop material to support you here (see slides and videos further below)

3. Know your data rights. Our data privacy policy is here, covering your questionnaire responses and personal information. What you share with us is confidential, and your data is protected. You can ask any question at any point should you wish. 

4. See the insights and learnings from our first two waves of the evaluation (July 2025 - March 2026) - these are provided further below for you, including our evaluation learning resources.

Timeline and when you will be invited

Below is the potential timeline for the next round (round 3) of the evaluation. This will be for grantees who have completed or are well progressed with their grant projects by August 2026.

Grantees are also contacted around 6 months after the end of the grant, to see how you are doing.

This is alongside the formal processes as part of your grant funding terms, e.g. reporting forms for Groundwork.

If your grant work is still largely in progress, and has not passed its mid-way point, then we will invite you later in the year.

If you are a Delivery grantee with a longer running project, we’ll be in touch with you for an optional check-in about your progress so far.

Ask us any questions

If you have any questions or queries about the evaluation, or any feedback about the fund that you would like to raise, you can email them to us at [email protected] or [email protected]

You can also let us know any monitoring & evaluation topics that you’re interested in learning more about. We will then post any clarifications that come up and your feedback will help us to design the next evaluation sessions.

Sharing our latest findings - and great case studies!

Thanks to all grantees who took part in our wave 1 of the evaluation! We have reported insights, findings and lessons from this. These have been shared with Groundwork London and the Funder - and include some insights and learning that you may find useful.

As part of Wave 1 and Wave 2, we have developed a set of useful case studies with a randomly selected set of grantees - thank you to the grantees for these excellent examples!

These are available for you to see here, with some useful tips and learning.

Our evaluation learning sessions - Summer 2006

The latest sessions and materials for you >>

A big thank you to everyone who took part! And to those who shared comments, suggestions, and questions for these sessions.

You can access the full slide deck for any of these workshops and their follow up sheets with key points and questions, using the buttons below. Here is a summary of the workshops:

Workshop A - Introduction to the GHCF Evaluation - We shared details about the evaluation stages and timeline, key tips for you and next steps. We also facilitated interactive discussions on beneficiaries and outcomes/impacts.

Workshop B - Evaluation - for more beginners - We shared evaluation tips and examples, and facilitated really good discussions about beneficiaries; outcomes/impacts; and the measures and methods you might use.

Workshop C - Evaluation good practices - for more experienced - We shared different methods and their principles, with examples, and facilitated really good discussions about outcomes, impacts, and the measures and methods you can use.

Workshop D - Evaluation learning - for those working with children & young people - We shared evaluation tips and principles for this specific area. We also had really good discussions and inputs from grantees about the challenges with evaluating this type of work, and the measures and methods that can work well.

Here are the accompanying question & answer sheets from the sessions, including key points from the discussions >>

Past sessions:

Thank you to the grantees who took part in our 2025 evaluation workshops! We shared some good practices, examples and tips on how to develop a Theory of Change, how to consider outcomes and impacts of your work and how to select measures. These may be helpful for your Greenwich Healthier Communities grant work - or can you can use the learning and tips for your future work and activities.

You can access the full slide deck covering the different topics here:

And an accompanying question and answer sheet from the session itself and afterwards: Q&A sheet.

You can also access these previous topic learning videos:

1. Key takeaways for all (coming soon)

2. Theory of Change

3. Defining Outcomes and Impact

4. Selecting your measures

5. How to share your outcome and impact in our evaluation (update coming soon)