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. There are different ways for projects to participate.

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

Questionnaires to share your views and experiences.
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 interview over the coming weeks and months. By participating in this evaluation, you will also help to improve the Greenwich Healthier Communities Fund for future community recipients.

Next steps

Be ready to receive your invitation to our questionnaire! The new questionnaires will go live in January 2026.
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).
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.
See the insights and learnings from our first wave of the evaluation (July 2025 - December 2025) - these are provided further below for you, including our evaluation learning resources.

Timeline and when you will be invited

If you are a current GHCF grantee since April 2025 - and have completed or nearly completed your grant work - you will be invited to participate in our independent evaluation from January 2026.

This is the wave 2 timeline:

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 (from August).

Register your interest + ask questions

To register your interest to keep updated from us directly, please fill in the form at the bottom of the webpage and one of the team will be in touch.

If you have any questions or queries about the evaluation, you can email them to us at [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 can help us to design the evaluation sessions for 2026.

Sharing our latest findings

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.

See the report

As part of wave 1, we have also developed four 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.

Case studies

Our evaluation learning sessions

Thank you to the grantees who took part in our 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:

Evaluation Learning Slides

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

You can access these topic learning videos: