Evaluation of Exeter City Council Cranbrook Place Partnership 2025-2028

Description

Exeter City Council is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified local partner to deliver the ongoing evaluation framework of its Sport England Place Partnership 'Live and Move' programme, with funding available for a 3 year contract to 2028. This local programme is part of a national network of places that Sport England are investing in to support communities to become more physically active.
The successful organisation or alliance will be expected to work closely with Exeter City Council, Sport England and local stakeholders to deliver ongoing quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the programme. This will include delivering the local evaluation framework across communities in Exeter and Cranbrook for key place partnership programmes with a focus on tackling physical inactivity and reducing inequalities. The evaluation framework will include:
•	Theory of Change evaluation
•	Delivery of the annual Local Active Lives survey - Our Learning - Live and Move
•	Evaluation of the flagship Wellbeing Exeter programme - HOME | Wellbeing Exeter | Exeter
•	Evaluation of key programmes' impact and learning including: Wonford Community Wellbeing Hub, Active Travel schemes, Cranbrook community physical activity and a range of campaigns seeking to reduce inactivity.
•	System Maturity and contribution to national comparative analysis
•	Process Learning with stakeholders
•	Working alongside the national Sport England learning team and the National Evaluation Partner to support the national evaluation framework.
There is a budget of £276,000 (inc. VAT) to deliver a programme of evaluation from October 2025 to March 2028.
We will seek to award the tender to organisations or partnerships/alliances that have a proven track record in capturing system and programme level impact, evaluation and learning within the community health, wellbeing and physical activity sector.  We will be particularly interested in working with organisations that can demonstrate added value and the ability to lever in additional resources, expertise and investment against the committed budget.
There will be the potential opportunity to work wider across the region with other partners establishing their place partnership programmes with Sport England.