1-1 Mentoring Evaluation Toolkit
This toolkit brings together a practical set of resources for organisations delivering one-to-one mentoring in schools and community settings. It includes an outcomes framework, mentoring surveys and data collection tools, a guide to evaluating one-to-one mentoring, and guidance on how to talk to funders about mentoring impact using evidence from delivery.
This model strategy provides a worked example of how a one-to-one mentoring evaluation strategy can be structured. It explains how to position mentoring within the evidence base, develop a model theory of change, identify dyadic mechanisms of change, structure evaluation themes, and design proportionate approaches to data collection and reporting.
This outcomes framework sets out the main areas of change associated with one-to-one mentoring. It explains the outcomes mentoring is expected to support, how they were developed from research and practice evidence, and how organisations can use indicators to measure and report mentoring progress consistently.
This template survey provides a practical tool for measuring change during one-to-one mentoring. Based on the outcomes framework in this toolkit, it includes a core set of mentoring outcome questions, optional additional measures, and guidance on how surveys can be used to monitor progress and support evaluation reporting.
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This guide provides a practical step-by-step approach to evaluating one-to-one mentoring programmes. It explains how to use outcomes frameworks, surveys, session records, mentor observations, and qualitative evidence to measure change over time, understand how mentoring relationships develop, and produce structured evidence about mentoring impact.
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This guide explains how mentoring organisations can describe impact clearly in funding applications. It shows how to present outcomes, monitoring data, surveys, qualitative evidence, and evaluation findings in ways that match common funder questions, helping organisations explain what difference mentoring makes and how that change is measured.