Group Mentoring Evaluation Toolkit
This toolkit brings together a practical set of resources for organisations delivering group mentoring in schools and community settings. It includes an outcomes framework, mentoring surveys and data collection tools, a guide to evaluating group 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 group mentoring evaluation strategy can be structured. It shows how group mentoring can be positioned within the evidence base, how peer and group-based mechanisms of change can be defined, and how evaluation themes, data collection, reflection, and impact reporting can be organised in practice.
This outcomes framework sets out the main areas of change associated with group mentoring. It explains the outcomes group mentoring is expected to support through peer interaction, shared reflection, and facilitated discussion, and shows how organisations can use indicators to measure and report mentoring progress consistently.
This template survey provides a practical tool for measuring change during group 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, peer interaction, and reflective development across group delivery.
This guide provides a practical step by step approach to evaluating group mentoring programmes. It explains how to use outcomes frameworks, surveys, session records, mentor observations, and qualitative evidence to measure change over time, understand how peer interaction and group reflection develop, and produce structured evidence about mentoring impact.
This guide explains how group 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 how peer interaction and group mentoring contribute to change over time.