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 by 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, and develop a Case Study.

The webpage contains the following parts to support you, which are then set out below:

1. Next steps for you, including our Evaluation Guide and timeline

2. How you can raise questions and any feedback or concerns with us

3. Our latest findings for you - see the learning, findings, Case Studies, and recommendations so far

4. Our evaluation learning materials - from our workshops and key tips and resources for you

Next steps

1. You can see our Brief Overview to our evaluation here.

2. Be ready to receive your invitation for a chat or our questionnaire! You will be informed about your timeline for taking part, given where you are in your grant delivery. (see below)

3. Learn more. Check out our Quick Guide to the evaluation and the questionnaire here. This includes key information and tips for completing your questionnaire (e.g. the questions you will be asked, and defining beneficiaries and impacts) and frequently asked questions (FAQs).

   You can also see our evaluation learning material and workshops to support you (further below on this webpage)

4. 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. 

5. 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 grantee learning and our recommendations.

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.

You can see the stages of the evaluation, alongside your grant project, below:

Ask us any questions - or share feedback - anytime

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

[email protected] or [email protected]

We are pleased to respond and support you, and we can also arrange a chat with you if that’s better.

If you have feedback or concerns with the fund, we will also confirm with you how you would like us to raise these (e.g. with you, on your behalf, or anonymously).

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

Sharing our latest findings - and great case studies!

Thanks to all grantees who took part in our evaluation so far! 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 very 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.

Also, we’re glad to share how what we heard from grantees has resulted in change by the evaluation and the funder:

Our evaluation learning with you

Here you can access (1) the learning materials from the latest evaluation workshops; (2) overall key tips and resources to support your current and future evaluation work; and (3) videos from the latest workshops and on specific topics

1) Summer 2026

The workshop 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 discussion points, using the buttons below.

You can also access the video recordings further below (part 3)

Here is a summary of the workshops:

• Workshop A - Introduction to the GHCF Evaluation - Details about the evaluation stages and timeline, key tips for you and next steps. We also discussed beneficiaries and outcomes/impacts.

• Workshop B - Evaluation - for more beginners - Evaluation tips and examples, with really useful discussions about beneficiaries; outcomes/impacts; and the measures and methods you might use.

• Workshop C - Evaluation good practices - for more experienced - Different methods and their principles, with examples. Really good discussions about impacts, and the measures and methods you can use.

• Workshop D - Evaluation learning - for those working with children & young people - 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 >>

The videos are below, under part 3)

2) Overall pointers and resources for you

From across our evaluation workshops and discussions with you, we have produced a set of key tips for evaluation and responses to the excellent questions that grantees raised about evaluation.

This is available below, which you may find useful for your current or future work:

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 previous full slide deck covering the different topics here:

3) Evaluation Learning - Videos for you

You can access the following learning videos, including recordings from the recent workshops (click on the one you’re interested in):

1. Workshop A: How to Participate in the Independent Evaluation

2. Quick How To: Participate in the Evaluation- short version

3. Quick tips and How We Support You - for all

4. Workshop B: Measures and Methods (more beginner) - for your current or future work 

5. Workshop C: Measures and Methods (more experienced) - for your current or future work 

6. Workshop D:  Evaluating work with children & young people - for your current or future work

7. Theory of Change

8. Defining Outcomes and Impact