You can download our visual Evaluation Group information page here. 

What does 'Evaluation' mean?

Evaluation is the process of assessing the value, merit, quality, or significance of something.

Evaluation helps us to understand the difference we are making. 

Why our Evaluation Group is important?

As an organisation run by and for Disabled people, the Evaluation Group helps us to embed diverse and intersectional lived experience into the fabric of our organisation. 

It helps us to generate helpful, evidence-based learning that we can use to improve.

The Evaluation Group is also a tool of accountability allowing us to consistently listen and ensure that we are responding to the evolving needs of our community.

We deeply understand that community is important tool in achieving justice. By coming together in this way, we are able to think strategically about how we create an organisation and ways of working that push for systems change. 

How will the Evaluation Groups feedback be used?

The feedback of the Evaluation Group is key to decision making within our organisation. Feedback will help us to: 

• Co-design services and solutions to the issue sthat we face
• Improve etsablished services and work.
• Support organisational growth and development.
• Ensure our organisation is consistently working towards being representative of all Disabled people. 
• Create strategic plans for change. 
• Ensure quality and accountability.
• Improve accessibility.
• Support more Disabled residents. 
• Increase the size of our community of members. 
• Build on our strengths - understand what we are doing well and do more of this. 

More information about our Evaluation Group meetings 

Meetings will be hosted by our CEO and will usually take place four times per year. We will meet for 2 hours and have a fixed agenda. Meetings will take place online (Zoom) but may change if the group prefers to meet in person. 

In 2026/27, the topics for each Evaluation Group are:

• Session 1 - A review of our strategic priorities including rebranding for sustainability
• Session 2 - Community Development including embedding intersectionality

Each meeting will end with time to raise any points that you may have about our organisation and its work. 

How we will thank you for donating your time and expertise 

We compensate members of our Evaluation group. We also acknowledge the group in our printed and digital communications. 

We are recruting new members of our Evaluation Group! How to join

Are you a Disabled person that is a part of our community of members or a Disabled Merton Resident? Do you have lived experience and ideas that you think would be valuable to our Evaluation Group? Please get in touch. 

To express your interest in joining our Evaluation Group, send us an email (using the form below), voice note, video or piece of art telling us why you want to join. We will then get in touch.

By joining in 2026/27 - we would ask you to commit to attending the two sessions (October 2026 and March 2027) and to review a small amount of visual or written information before each session.