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Our evidence and impact strategy

Our evidence and impact strategy overview

This strategy sets out how we'll use evidence, learning and evaluation to increase the impact of our funding.

It explains how we'll work with communities to generate and use evidence to:

  • increase resilience

  • tackle inequality

  • promote environmental sustainability

Our 5 goals

We have set 5 goals to use evidence to support the It starts with community strategy from 2025 to 2030.

Enable our equity-based approach

We use evidence of need to take an equity-based approach to funding. What we learn about poverty, disadvantage and discrimination guides our funding and communications.

Evidence-based funding

We use evidence and learning from outside and inside the Fund to make decisions. We provide the evidence communities need to make the biggest difference.

Demonstrate our impact

We evaluate our work to get evidence to show the difference our funding makes and increase our impact in the future.

Lead with evidence

We use evidence and learning to promote positive change across our missions. We share insights from our work to:

  • influence policy

  • improve practice

  • strengthen future funding

Learn with communities

We work with communities to gather, share and learn from evidence together. We create opportunities for communities to:

  • connect

  • learn from each other

  • use evidence to support positive social change

Download the strategy

The National Lottery Community Fund Evidence and Impact Strategy 2025 to 2030 - English (Word doc, 231 KB)

The National Lottery Community Fund Evidence and Impact Strategy 2025 to 2030 - English (PDF, 2.9 MB)