Tender: Follow-up Impact Evaluation of 7 Nature Towns and Cities Pioneer Cohort Places

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The National Trust is seeking a consultant to undertake a follow-up impact evaluation of the seven places remaining in the Nature Towns and Cities Pioneer Cohort to understand what has happened since 2019, with particular focus on changes since 2022, generate robust independent evidence of longer-term impact, and produce whole-place change case studies that demonstrate the benefits to places and communities of capacity-building and systems-change approaches and help articulate causal links between interventions and their longer-term impacts. Submissions (maximum six pages, with abridged CVs as appendices) should include a proposed approach with project plan and high-level risk log, relevant experience and abridged CVs of the project team, a proposed budget breakdown, details of any matters or concerns not covered by the brief, and answers to the mandatory Annex questions; proposals must be returned to [email protected] by 9am Monday 14th September 2026. The available budget for this commission is £20,000–25,000 including VAT.