How to win: Evaluation and Learning Partner (Sport England Place Partnership Funding Expansion - Leicester)

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Evaluation and Learning Partner Sports England Place Partnership Funding Expansion - Leicester. Active Together are seeking to commission an evaluation and learning partner to work as part of the Sport England funded Place Expansion work in Leicester for an 18 month contract. Leicester has been identified as an area for Sport England Place Based investment and has been awarded funding to support Place Based working from September 2026 to Spring 2028. Evaluation and learning are a key part of the work and are embedded throughout the programme. The appointed partner: • will support the upskilling of the team, partner organisations and the public in becoming comfortable with and embedding learning and evaluation • carrying out formal qualitative evaluation such as ripple effect mapping and social network analysis in partnership with the team • leading the submission of formal evaluation and learning requirements to Sport England and the National Evaluation and Learning Partner (NELP) For more information on Active Together please see link below https://www.active-together.org/

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• ✓Answer against the marking scheme, not the question text — Leicestershire County Council scores each response, so map your evidence to the published criteria and weightings.
• ✓At £90,000, expect quality and social value to carry a large share of the score — price alone rarely wins services work.
• ✓Show recent, comparable delivery: name similar services contracts you've delivered for public bodies, with measurable outcomes.
• ✓Start early: it closes 9 October 2026 and a strong bid takes iteration.

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