Inclusive Evaluation UK, Measuring Equity, Voice and Belonging
Inclusive Evaluation
Inclusive Evaluation With Global Majority Participants
Inclusive work deserves inclusive evaluation. When your programme is designed to widen access, amplify under-represented voices, or support participants from the global majority, success cannot be reduced to attendance counts.
Why We’re the Inclusive Impact Partner You Want
At The Evaluator, we’re passionate about working with organisations engaging under-represented communities including participants from the global majority. True impact means more than numbers, it means inclusion, equity, voice and belonging.
What makes us different is not just our technical expertise, but the way we work. Guided by values that are creatively simple, honest and useful, we design evaluation that goes beyond surface-level diversity measures to understand what inclusion actually feels like in practice. That means helping organisations evidence voice, access, trust, belonging and change in ways that are robust, respectful and useful.
If you’re tackling inequality or shifting who has access, we’ll figure out how you measure it, how you show it, and how you improve it.
Client Highlights, Equity, Voice and Access
Rising Stars NW
Based in Greater Manchester, Stockport, Rising Stars NW supports young people, particularly from diverse backgrounds, into creative and media careers.
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Delivery includes workshops across music, art, media and events, building skills, confidence and aspiration.
- Participant profile and reach, who is engaged and who is not yet
- Progression pathways into creative opportunities
- Shifts in aspiration, confidence and perceived access
- How barriers reduce and opportunity increases over time
Creative Vision
In Luton, Creative Vision explored the heritage of Bangladeshi restaurants through oral history interviews with restaurant owners and chefs, while engaging young volunteers in research, filming and digital storytelling. The project captured stories that are often overlooked, while also building skills, confidence and stronger connections between generations and communities.
- Preservation of intangible heritage through oral history and digital content
- Volunteer learning, confidence and connection to heritage
- Challenges around language, trust and access when gathering community stories
- How participation helps strengthen identity, belonging and intergenerational understanding
Healing Arts For All, HAFA, Community Arts by ZK
A multi-year community driven heritage and arts project in Pendle, exploring textile heritage and the experiences of South Asian communities, using creative practice to bring forward voices that are too often excluded.
Read about HAFA
- Who is participating, and whether representation improves over time
- How heritage, identity and belonging shift through creative activity
- How creative practice enables voice and agency
- Wellbeing and connection outcomes for participants and communities
What This Means for Your Project
- Equity first evaluation, not only counting participants, also checking who they are, whose voice is present, whose is not yet, and how that shifts
- Measurement that reflects diverse participation, geography, ethnicity, age, lived experience, cultural identity, access needs
- Evidence linked to what matters, access, belonging, voice, opportunity, behaviour change, not only outputs
- Credible results for funders focused on inclusion and social justice, strong data plus stories of change
- Methods that are practical, culturally responsive, and usable for delivery teams
Ready to Evidence Inclusion Properly?
If you’re committed to shifting who gets to participate, whose voices are heard, and what impact means in communities often overlooked, we’ll figure it out with you.
Evaluation, Measurement, Impact.