Final Evaluation of the Response, Recovery and Resilience Fund (RRR Fund)
/We worked with Foundation Scotland to produce a final evaluation of their Response, Recovery and Resilience (RRR) Fund.
The evaluation offers insight into the difference the RRR Fund has made to groups and communities across Scotland and the challenges that lay ahead. By the time the fund closed in April 2021, it had supported 1190 organisations across Scotland. Thanks to the National Emergencies Trust and the generous support of Foundation Scotland's donors, more than £7.4 million was distributed.
This report is the second evaluation of the RRR Fund. The first Rapid Evaluation of the RRR Fund was published in May 2020 and focussed on the first few weeks of the Response phase. The July 2021 evaluation focuses on organisations who received funding in the Recovery and Resilience phases and includes survey data from more than 150 grantees plus detailed feedback from several focus groups.
The evaluation includes 14 recommendations and learning points including:
Impact on communities and project beneficiaries
Impact on community projects/organisations
Impact on Community Infrastructure
Challenges and Opportunities
The evaluation also includes several case studies from the Village Storytelling Centre in Glasgow, Headway in East Lothian, Clifftops Project in West Dunbartonshire, Fresh Start in Edinburgh and the Whitburn and District Community Development Trust in West Lothian.
