Upshot Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Services

We are a non-profit social enterprise helping organisations evidence their social impact.

We do this in two ways: our established online system, used by more than 1,800 non profits around the world, and our growing range of MEL services, driven by the needs of the non-profit sector.

Through our resources, workshops, events, consultancy and partnerships we bring organisations together to build capacity, share best practice and stay at the forefront of impact measurement.

Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Services

  1. Training and professional development
  2. Data visualisation, dashboards and number - crunching
  3. Strategic consultancy and measurement frameworks
  4. Resources, thought leadership and partnerships

Please contact support@upshot.org.uk or call us on +44 (0)20 3111 1455 for more information.

Training & professional development

MEL Workshops - Overview

Looking to upskill your team with a better understanding of MEL? These workshops include interactive exercises, resources and handouts to bring MEL to life and place it at the heart of what you do. Delivered online or in person - bring your team together to share challenges and develop solutions.

Bespoke Workshops

Upskill your team or network with our bespoke series of 5 workshops. We work with you to tailor the content to your audience and requirements, incorporate relevant exercises and ensure attendees come away with tangible outputs.

  • 2 hours per workshop
  • Online or In-Person
  • Up to 15 participants per workshop

Starting from £750 + VAT per workshop or £3,250 + VAT for the series of 5*

*for in-person workshops, travel, subsistence and accommodation is charged at cost

Case Study: Sport for Refugee Coalition

The Task: Empower a coalition of sport for development organisations working with refugees around the world to implement effective MEL practices.

What We Delivered: A series of 5 tailored, interactive workshops delivered to an audience of organisations from all continents.

Quotes:

"Upshot worked with us to customise the workshop topics and structure to best fit the needs of our Coalition Members. We've had nothing but positive feedback for the series from our members. Many thanks!" - IOC Refuge Foundation

"The breakout session was super helpful, interactive and also personalised - great moderation by the team. Great advice and explanation about the bigger picture and different frameworks" - Delegate feedback from Upshot MEL workshop series.

Data visualisation, dashboards and number-crunching

Upshot Bespoke Reporting Templates

You are already using the Upshot system to collect great data but need a bespoke set of reports for a funder, your board or another stakeholder? We can help. Based on your specific requirements, we can build Excel-based reporting templates that will simplify and visualise your Upshot data.

Starting from £300 + VAT

Data Dashboards

Looking to shout about the data you have collected? Live dashboards are powerful tools that display your data in exactly the way you need, to gain insights and make decisions. They can be shared internally and externally to make sure everyone (your beneficiaries, staff, trustees and funders) is up-to-date and engaged with your progress.

We can build these with you (in Excel or Google Looker Studio). Your choice depends on your audience and your specific requirements such as how you want to share and update.

We are here to advise you on this so your solution is sustainable and hits the right note! Showcase data from the Upshot system or bring other sources to life through a straight forward process:

  • Discuss with our data analysts your detailed requirements.
  • We provide a draft build of the dashboard for you to review.
  • Creation of the final dashboard with co-branding options.
  • Ongoing support to refresh & keep your dashboard updated.

EXAMPLE HERE

£1,500 - £8,500 +VAT depending on your requirements

Data Analysis

Data can seem messy and overwhelming sometimes. We are here to help with one-off reports, pieces of number crunching, survey data analysis or specific data visualisation tasks. Let us help you get the most out of your data.

£700 + VAT per day based on requirements

Case Study: Football Foundation

The Task: A dashboard for all stakeholders across 25 delivery locations of the place-based community programme - Active Through Football.

What We Delivered: Scoped and created a dashboard to show attendance and demographic participant data. The dashboard and the support from Upshot plays a central role in the ongoing Community of Learning for this acclaimed programme.

Quote:

"Upshot has played a leading role in our place-based Active Through Football programme. The Upshot system enables easy collection of data and that feeds into a comprehensive dashboard shared by all stakeholders within the community of learning we've created together."

Maddy Ford - Programme Manager, Football Foundation

Strategic consultancy and measurement frameworks

MEL Plans

Would you like to map out your impact measurement process from start to finish? Unsure where to start? We help you create your bespoke MEL Plan, based on your specific requirements.

  • We engage with your key stakeholders through workshops, focus groups, surveys and other means to help you define your organisation or programme's outcomes, indicators and data-collection plan.
  • Deliverables could include a Theory of Change, Logic Model, Outcomes Framework or other tools to tell the story of how your organisation plans to have impact. And if you need an accompanying Measurement Framework to help you and your team to measure what matters and keep on track - we have the experience you need to make it happen.

Bespoke pricing based on requirements, starting from £3,500 + VAT

Strategic Consultancy

Need a critical friend and impact partner? Whether you need our help with a one-off project or whether you would like to make use of our expertise in social impact measurement on an ongoing basis, we are ready to be your sounding board. Get in touch to explore how we can work together.

Case Study: Wembley Stadium Foundation

The Task: Through engagement with trustees and the team, create a Theory of Change and a measurement framework to bring consistency and clarity. This enables a collaborative and continual learning approach for the foundation, grantees and partners alike.

What We Delivered: Outcomes, outputs, indicators and key activities and events were defined through a series of workshops, to form the Theory of Change and measurement framework. Training on how to record data in line with the framework enables the Foundation to show the impact of their work.

Quote:

"It's been amazing to see our new Theory of Change guiding how we focus our support and understand the difference it makes. This has been shaped through conversations with partners, trustees and our wider network with the brilliant support of Upshot".

Matilda Thaddeus-Johns - Head of Strategic Partnerships & Programmes, Wembley Stadium Foundation

Resources, thought-leadership and partnerships

Free Resources

As a social enterprise, our mission is to enable the non-profit sector. We continuously develop materials and opportunities for organisations to learn and improve how they measure and evidence their impact.

Thought-Leadership and Partnerships

Looking for your next great speaker, newsletter content piece or podcast guest?

We love to be involved in the conversation and drive best practice forward. If you want to add a MEL perspective to your next event or communication - we are on hand to provide workshops, panellists, speakers or stalls, articles and blogs.

We value long-term partnerships and are always looking for ways to share our vision of better monitoring, evaluation and learning for social impact with the sector.

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