BVSC Research and Evaluation Services

Are you submitting a bid and need an evaluation partner to be on board from the beginning and throughout your project? Are you coming to the end of a project, and need to evidence the outcomes of your services? Or, are you just keen to make sure that your service is the very best it can be by using independent evaluation to inform continuous improvement?

The team at BVSC Research are experienced in carrying out evaluation on complex social issues, and in engaging stakeholders from a wide range of backgrounds and organisational settings. We have expertise in quantitative and qualitative evaluation, from statistical database analysis, to qualitative focus groups and in-depth interviewing analysis. Central to our approach is working collaboratively with our VCFSE partners and with the communities and citizens they serve.

BVSC Research also works closely in partnership with leading academics in the field, and dependent on your needs and the scale of the evaluation or research, can bring in additional expertise through these partnerships.

Our goal is to provide affordable, high quality evaluation that supports the sector, and ensures that our services are tailored to meet your requirements.

“We are delighted with recent evaluation carried out by Sophie and her team. Their fieldwork was completed with sensitivity and flexibility and it felt tailor made to the needs of our organisation. The overall analysis of our service was astute and conveyed a true reflection of the challenges and successes of the resettlement service. Information was presented in a clear and concise way and the evaluation has given us invaluable insight which has been a fantastic platform on which to take learning forward. We are incredibly grateful to Sophie and her team for all of their hard work.” – Carly Jones, Chief Executive Officer SIFA Fireside

You can read more about our work, and see examples of our research and evaluation by visiting our website.

If you would like to have a chat to find out more about what we can do, then please do get in touch by emailing Sophie Wilson at [email protected] or phoning on 07765 867869.

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