Evaluation and research
Big Lottery Fund undertakes evaluation and research to enable it to improve funding impacts and processes; to promote wider sharing of such learning in order to improve practice and influence policy; and to support public accountability.
About evaluation and research
Evaluation allows us to understand the impact of our funding.
Questions answered
Read about the key findings from our evaluation and research.
Latest publications
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Big thinking: Our Strategic Framework to 2015
25 June 2009
Big thinking: Our Strategic Framework to 2015
Document Type: EvaluationBIG’s Strategic Framework takes us from where we are today to where we want to be in 2015. It charts the journey we will make during this period.
Location: UK
732 kB
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Big thinking: What you told us
25 June 2009
Big thinking: What you told us
Document Type: EvaluationThis was the largest consultation ever carried out by a Lottery distributor, reflecting our position as a body that delivers around half of all Lottery funding to communities across the UK.
Location: UK
3,550 kB
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Evaluation of Reaching Communities in England and Northern Ireland
28 May 2009
Evaluation of Reaching Communities in England and Northern Ireland
Document Type: EvaluationThis evaluation assesses the effectiveness of projects within the demand-led Reaching Communities programmes in identifying, defining and meeting the needs of the people they aim to benefit (including the role of beneficiaries in doing so).
Location: Northern Ireland, England
Programme(s): Reaching Communities, Reaching Communities: Northern Ireland447 kB
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Cardiac Rehabilitation final evaluation report
23 April 2009
Cardiac Rehabilitation final evaluation report
Document Type: EvaluationThis is the final report from the three year evaluation of our cardiac rehabilitation programme. The programme was managed by our award partner, the British Heart Foundation. The report summarises the findings from the evaluation in relation to the programme objectives of increasing uptake and improving the quality of cardiac rehabilitation services.
Location: UK
Programme(s): Cardiac Rehabilitation771 kB
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Football Foundation working paper
26 March 2009
Football Foundation working paper
Document Type: EvaluationThe working paper summarises the main findings from the evaluation of the Football Foundation aspect of the NOPES programme. Further information about the evaluation is available in the full report which is also available on this site.
Location: UK
Programme(s): Football Foundation, PE and Sport187 kB