Evaluation of Audience Development Programme – Emergency Stonework Project 2025–2026
We seek to appoint an experienced freelance Evaluation Consultant to work with the Leeds Castle team to develop and
coordinate the evaluation of all aspects of the Stoneworks Audience Development programme and write the final
evaluation plan in line with the guidelines and principles set out by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, and the ambitions of
Leeds Castle staff, volunteers, and Trustees. We expect the consultant to work closely with the project team, including
Leeds Castle staff and volunteers and key external project partners throughout development and evaluation of the project.
During this time, we require the consultant to undertake the following:
- Devise evaluation tools to effectively monitor the project programme and approved purposes in line with the evaluation and monitoring requirements of Leeds Castle and project funders.
- Produce a mid-project evaluation report answering the following questions and provide recommendations for the team to ensure that the project achieves all the outcomes and approved purposes:
- What has been delivered so far?
- Who is participating?
- What is going well?
- What improvements could be made?
- What lessons can we learn for the rest of the project?
- Produce a detailed and comprehensive Evaluation Report as part of project completion; this may be submitted to funders and should report against objectives, heritage outcomes and answer the following questions; it should also be a tool to help Leeds Castle with future development steps:
- What went well?
- Who participated?
- What was challenging?
- Were there any unexpected outcomes?
- What lessons have been learned?
- We expect the Consultant to lead on the collection of baseline and summative data using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods.
This contract runs from August 2025 – May 2026.
Please note this role will require site visits to Leeds Castle in Kent, including conducting on-site evaluation activities.
How to apply
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Applications from freelance consultants and consultancies are welcome. All applicants for undertaking this piece of work
are required to submit a project proposal by 11.59pm on 20 July to [email protected].