Pondus is Latin for weight: the root of "ponder", and of "preponderance of the evidence". That's more or less the job. I work out what a programme's evidence can carry, and help build on the parts that hold.
I came to evaluation from inside education. I taught economics, politics and maths in London schools, and I've served as a school governor.
I later led an economics education organisation, where a schools programme grew from one school to 32, with its evaluation and delivery systems built alongside it. I then designed the evaluation architecture for a cross-party parliamentary learning organisation, including the three-tier attribution framework that still shapes how I work.
So I've seen this work from several sides: delivering programmes, growing them, governing them, and answering the question of whether they made a difference.
Funders read impact reports closely, and they've learned to discount claims that go further than the evidence. I set up Pondus to help organisations report at the level their evidence supports: clear about what a programme caused, what it influenced, and what it was part of. Claims made at that level tend to be believed.
Methods proportionate to the programme and the budget. Honesty about what the evidence can and can't support. Reporting that helps you make decisions, not just satisfy a funder. And systems your own team can run once I've gone.
Weigh what's true. Build on what holds
The best place to start is a short, no-obligation call about what you’re trying to evidence and who you need to convince. If an Evaluation & Impact Audit looks right, we can scope it on that call, and its fee comes back to you if we build from it.
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