1. Monitoring & Evaluation Lunch Positive
Our organisation
Our journey with Monitoring & Evaluation
Community Service Agreement Project -Overview and learning
Our needs today

2. Our organisation – Lunch Positive
Weekly lunch club for people with HIV
Formed in 2009, Registered Charity in 2010
Entirely voluntary
Provides lunch, advice, information & hosts outreach, provides accessible volunteering
Aims to combat food poverty, reduce social isolation, provide peer support, improve health & well being
Annual budget of £30,000
Funded by trusts and foundations, and own income
Carry out annual service use and volunteering evaluations & produce report

3. Our journey with Monitoring & Evaluation
First requested by funders to varying degrees
Important to inform work – not just an exercise
Found training & support
Took part in ‘Community Service Agreement’ Project
Sought critical eyes. Tweaked and improved!
Introduced annual programme with delegated roles
Continue to access more training & networks
Discuss & share widely with participants & stakeholders
Increasingly needed to support & diversify funding

4. Community Service Agreement Overview
Led by People Can & NHS Brighton
Looked at using M&E to evidence impact
Sought to identify cost savings to NHS and Return on Investment
Looked at M&E methods, tools, ways of reporting
Groups presented / published report

5. Community Service Agreement Learning
Keep it authentic & proportionate
Learn & understand M&E terminology
Look at other peoples reports
Find out what other people do, ask questions
Plan your activities & look at what can realistically be achieved
Use tools that you’re confident with
Share tools
Be self critical
Ask for help and advice
Keep on keeping on – it soon becomes routine!

6. Here’s our CSA Report
Comprehensive report for the project. Consider looking at tools, methods. Links to sources of information ie. Comparative Costs Unit Costs Of Health & Social Care Index 2010, published by PSSRU - Personal Social Services Research Unit, University of Kent. Now gather this data but produce shorter Executive Summary.

7. Our Needs Today
Increasingly sought by funders – competition even for small grants
Costs of services, savings and returns on investment are increasingly considered especially by statutory funders
Decline in donations and giving – encourages support
Resources are stretched further – identifies areas for priority work & improvement
Helps us talk with wide ranging stakeholders at different levels
Consider M&E in all work, proportionately
Informs and improves our work
Provides evidence & strengthens case for maintaining existing funding, new work and funding