Tackling Loneliness with Transport Fund evaluation
An evaluation of how the Tackling Loneliness with Transport Fund was designed and run, examining lessons learned at each stage.
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These reports evaluate the Tackling Loneliness with Transport Fund, which aimed to develop evidence on how transport can help alleviate loneliness.
They focus on 3 main evaluation activities – a process evaluation, a theory-based impact evaluation, and a value for money assessment.
The reports examine how the fund was designed, how pilots were set-up and implemented and lessons learned from each stage. They also consider how pilot activities contributed to or hindered intended outcomes and what contribution, if any, transport can make to alleviating loneliness.
The main report has been published alongside appendices presenting:
- a detailed technical methodology
- a logic map for the evaluation, developed during the scoping phase
- a map of the fund
- the common minimum dataset (CMD), including the CMD template provided to pilots and findings gathered from the resulting data
- pilot case studies
- survey findings from each pilot
- value for money assessment findings which supplement the technical methodology
This research was commissioned by the Department for Transport and commissioned by the National Centre for Social Research. Related research into quantifying the relationship between loneliness and transport was published in September 2024.