Findings from our evaluations and guidance for anyone involved in evaluating projects as part of Uniting the Movement.
We work with partners to evaluate our programmes, campaigns and investments so we can track success and use what we learn to help more people enjoy the benefits of being active.
Our approach and action plan sets the direction for how evaluation and learning can support our Uniting the Movement strategy.
It reflects the collective response from staff and partners, about how evaluation and learning can help us tackle inequalities and bring the benefits of sport and physical activity to everyone.
The approach sets out three simple, shared ambitions to improve how we embed, conduct and use evaluation and learning.
Alongside these ambitions are the ways of working that we, and our partners, think will help us achieve those ambitions.
The action plan reveals the actions we think will help us achieve these ambitions and highlights how you can get involved, to create evaluation that is more inclusive, flexible, open and valuable for the sector.
You can read an update on our progress in this blog from Darcy Hare.
As part of the action plan, we’re working on a range of materials to support this new approach, including practical guidance for anyone involved in evaluating projects as part of Uniting the Movement - we’ll share them here as soon as they’re ready.
In the meantime, you can still access the most popular resources and guidance from our previous evaluation framework or you can email us at [email protected].
On this tab you can see findings and resources form our completed evaluations.
If the report you're looking for isn't here, please email us on [email protected].
Find our more about our work help older adults get or keep active.
We developed a series of infographics that were captured live during the learning conversations in the evaluation of the fund, covering collaboration, volunteers, getting the experience right, evaluation and sustaining a legacy.
Read morewe have developed a series of infographics that were captured live during the learning conversations covering collaboration, volunteers, getting the experience right, evaluation and sustaining a legacy.
Read the government’s independent evaluation report on the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Find out more about the Community Emergency Fund.
Find out more about the Couch to Fitness programme.
Inclusive physical activity - what we learned from evaluation
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Campaign learning summary
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Delivering great projects - learning summary
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Inclusive physical activity and reducing inequalities - full report
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Find out more about the Families Fund.
Find out more about the £5 million Get Healthy, Get Active fund.
Find out more about the Get Set To Go fund.
Find out more about Ideas to Action.
Find out more about our local delivery work.
Find out more about our work with the Richmond Group of Charities.
Find out more about our work with national governing bodies.
Find out more about our investment in the 2019 road cycling world championships.
Find out more about our research into how to give children and young people positive experiences when getting active.
Find out more about our work with the School Games.
Find out more about the secondary teacher training programme.
Research summary - attitudes and behaviours of the most and least active students
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How Phase 1 projects achieved impact
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Inclusion and inequalities
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Why PE matters
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Why PE makes a school happy
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Top tips to make PE great for students
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How to make PE for everyone
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Are you really listening?
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Find out more about our investment in helping to tackle serious youth violence.
Find out more about the swim pilots.
Find out more about our work to tackle inactivity in colleges.
Find out more about our work in volunteering.
Volunteering Fund evaluation - impact report
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Volunteering evaluation guidance
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Volunteering funds - Interim Evaluation Report
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Volunteering funds - second interim evaluation report
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Volunteering Insight Guide
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To find out more about the We Are Undefeatable campaign, click here.
Find out more about our workforce diversity funding.
On this page you can read about live evaluations of our current programmes, campaigns and investments. We’ll share the latest findings here as we have them.
To find out more about any of these evaluations contact the team at [email protected].
We’ve appointed a consortium of Ipsos, New Philanthropy Capital and Sheffield Hallam’s Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre to help us evaluate and learn from our long-term partnerships and investment into over 125 sector partners.
Read moreEach system partner plays an important role in how sport is governed, delivered, and structured in England.
By evaluating our work together, we will learn how we are effecting systemic change that contributes to the four strategic aims of Uniting the Movement: increasing activity, decreasing inactivity, reducing inequalities, and providing a positive experience for children.
This comprehensive evaluation runs from 2023 to 2028, is guided by realist evaluation methodology, and includes workstreams focused on impact evaluation, process evaluation, learning and knowledge exchange, capacity and capability building, and more.
This evaluation of multiple investments into place-based systemic working runs from 2021 to 2025 and is led by a consortium of research teams from Sheffield Hallam University, Coventry University and Hartpury University, alongside Collaborate CIC and an independent consultant.
Read moreThe objective is to demonstrate how and why place-based approaches to physical activity work in different locations and contexts, and their impact on individual, community and system outcomes including the four strategic aims of Uniting the Movement.
The evaluation covers our local delivery pilots (which began in 2017) as well as our recent expansion of Place Partnership investments.
The evaluation is guided by whole-systems realist methodology. Watch this video to find out more. You can also visit the Evaluating Complexity website, which has been set up by Sheffield Hallam University to share the methods, tools and resources being used to evaluate this work.
You can also read this public narrative and view an overview of key concepts.
It includes process evaluation and synthesis, local impact reporting, a comparative configurational analysis impact study, capacity and capability building, and support to facilitate learning and foster the use of evaluation for action.
Our Place Learning and Resources page contains further useful information.
Read lessThis evaluation is managed by Active Essex on our behalf and carried out by Volterra from 2023 to 2025.
Read moreIt covers three separate Free Bikes schemes taking place in Birmingham, Essex and Southall local delivery pilot areas.
The schemes are designed and delivered to meet local need but share a common mechanism of providing free access to bikes to support physical activity.
The evaluation will assess and collate existing data and collect new data to carry out a social and economic appraisal of the three schemes, individually and collectively.
This involves understanding and valuing the benefits of the schemes and calculating the return on investment.
The evaluation will also examine and present the key conditions for successful schemes.
Read lessThese are separate evaluations of targeted investment into community football, tennis and multi-sport facilities.
Read moreThey include:
Evaluations will run during 2023 to 2027.
Read lessWe have separate evaluations for our three campaigns:
Read moreThese evaluations run alongside the campaigns to help us track and understand the impact of campaign activity and messaging.
All three evaluations measure campaign awareness and claimed action in response to the campaign.
TGC and WAU also measure physical activity behaviour and attitudes, and PTW also measures child-first coaching behaviours and attitudes.
WAU and PTW also have a regular qualitative element.
Read lessThis evaluation, carried out by Walnut in 2023-24, aims to understand the impact and use of the Studio You platform in schools.
It uses a mixed methods approach including teacher focus groups and surveys, and interviews with girls aged 11-16.
Read more Read lessWe hope to appoint and announce our evaluation and learning partners for the new Movement Fund by September 2024.
Read moreThis will be a four-year contract to work alongside Sport England on the evaluation, learning, innovation and development of the Movement Fund.
The objectives will include to measure and evaluate the contribution of the Fund to the outcomes of Uniting the Movement, to measure and demonstrate the Fund’s social value, to learn what is working (or not) across the entire Fund, to provide appropriate and proportionate evaluation support, and to help the Movement Fund to develop, evolve and innovate.
The contract, like the Movement Fund itself, aims to be more flexible, inclusive and user-led.
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