The ChEW Blog

Jo Scott (Ipsos UK) and Diane Redfern-Tofts (The Health Foundation) For the many charities that are seeking to support and develop new...

ChEW co-chairs, Jami and Dave, share reflections on their journey with ChEW

Three months on, Charlotte Turner shares her reflections from the ChEW Festival 2025

ImpactEd Evaluation share how bringing 'on the ground' voices into evaluation early on improves the quality of the evaluation as well as the culture around it

In this powerful keynote-turned-blog, Kamna explores how evaluation can shift from a tool of compliance to a practice of collective learning and trust.

“Agile” is a popular phrase in workplaces these days, particularly in the fields of technology and product management. This approach,...

Faced with choosing whether to self-evaluate or commission an evaluator? This blog provides a checklist to help you to decide.

Jo Haffenden discusses the strategic considerations behind the Masonic Charitable Foundation's decision to commission evaluations.

In recent years the social sector has given increased focus towards equity in grant making and in how programmes are designed and...

The EEC has been established to advance thinking and practice on more equitable evaluation practice in the UK social sector.

Introducing our new Co-chairs, Dave Salisbury and Jami Dixon.

ChEW Trustee Vinal Karania outlines how the feedback from our Member Consultation has informed our new strategy.

What is Systems Change? As an external evaluator I’ve done heaps of service evaluations – whether it’s a sports programme aimed at young...

I have spent nearly twenty years working as an evaluation practitioner in many different contexts. For about the first ten years of my...

It has been a massive time of change for many in the charity evaluation sector. For many charities projects have been stopped and...

At our first ‘Bitesize’ event in February the evaluation team from Scope shared their experience of taking a co-production approach. The...

We are so excited to be launching our new members area which we hope will bring members closer together to share information and connect.

Chew Board Member Dave Salisbury reflects on 2020 and how we respond to the need for equitable evaluation and change in the evaluation secto

Back in October 2020, we ran a workshop aimed to help us move from conversations about anti-racism in evaluation towards action. Building...

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