Taking the lead in a consortium, the Tavistock Institute evaluates the HLC programme success in terms of the aims of the Big Lottery Fund and the HLCs themselves, to contribute to the evidence base regarding successful strategies to improve health and reduce health inequalities, to assist HLCs and their partners to learn from the overall programme experience in order to develop their capacity and improve their practice, to help NOF with the management and development of this programme as well as with future programme and policy development.