Public Health Scotland is partnering with Evaluation Support Scotland (ESS) to offer a practical and interactive online workshop designed to help you strengthen how you evaluate Prevention work in the community food sector.

Tuesday 31st March
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Online workshop via Zoom

Workshop outcomes
By the end of the session, you will be able to:

• clarify what you’re preventing and for whom
• identify protective factors to generate positive outcomes
• use the above to create a theory of change
• use evidence to report on prevention activities
  

Who is the workshop for?
This workshop is for those who:

• work with or within the community food sector in Scotland
• are interested in developing understanding about how their organisation or activity is creating the conditions to help people stay well and can implement learning.
• have a basic understanding of evaluation, the difference between activities and outcomes, and what outcome indicators are.

ESS has free Support Guides, available on its website to help remind you about these:

Support Guide 1a – Setting outcomes 
Support Guide 1b – Working out what to measure (setting indicators)
Support Guide 2a – Designing evidence collection methods

There is a maximum of 15 spaces available. Participants will also be asked to provide brief feedback to us, and you’ll also be invited to a short follow‑up session to share learning with community food peers.

How to apply
Please complete our short application form below.
If the workshop is oversubscribed, priority will be given to applicants who can show they will:

• Apply the learning directly in their work

We also aim to ensure we support organisations working across a range of geographical areas and in a range of settings.

Closing date: Thursday 12 March 2026, 12 noon

Evaluating Prevention workshop – please complete this form if you would like to attend – Fill in form

Please contact kim.newstead@phs.scot if you need any further information.