Could you be our Hope and Healing Evaluation Partner? 

We’re looking for an experienced partner to help us evaluate our Hope and Healing project.    

We’re looking for someone who can work alongside us to help us develop an evidence base for holistic, trauma-informed approaches to community healing as a key part of mental health support. 

They will be an experienced evaluator bringing deep knowledge and experience of different evaluation techniques. But we’re also someone who shares our values, is aligned to our ways of working and is excited about working with curiosity, flexibility and challenge.  

The nature of our project means that we are learning and evolving as we go along. For us, this is central to being relational, collaborative and sharing power: we cannot be led by communities and by our learning if we think we have everything worked out before we start. You can read about some of our early learning here: Gathering a community for hope and healing 

Our evaluation partner will be genuinely excited by working in this way, and by the idea of working with us to develop the project’s evaluation and learning. We want to learn from you and hope that you’ll want to learn from us, too. 

The work will include evaluating different aspects of the Hope and Healing project to help us understand what activities are working, how and why. This includes change in communities, in services and systems and in our own ways of working. 

We’re particularly interested in hearing from potential partners who bring experience of relational evaluation approaches that align with our project’s principles of sharing power, sharing stories and creating change. 

You can read the full Invitation to Tender document, which includes details of how to apply and how you can get in touch for more information. 

Key details:  

Deadline for applications: 5pm, Friday 30th January 2026 

Budget: £60k 

Project timeframe: 1st March 2026 – 31st December 2029