Good Finance – Income matrix
The Outcomes Matrix is a practical tool to help social impact organisations plan and measure their social impact.
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Measuring your Impact.
There is now a requirement amongst funders and commissioners that voluntary and community organisations can provide measurable evidence of the impact or change that the activities they provide make to communities and individuals. Recent years have seen a shift from simply counting inputs and outputs (for example, the number of people using a service) to […]
Step 1: Using a Theory of Change to plan your impact
The Theory of Change is a planning tool that encourages you to reflect on your aims and plans, to discuss them with others, and to make them explicit. A clear, concise, and convincing explanation of what you do and the difference you aim to have is a vital foundation of any organisation’s strategy, evaluation, and […]
Step 2: Collecting data
In this step you need to consider how you will go about collecting the data to help you understand if your programme or service is working towards the outcomes you identified in your Theory of Change. Your data will fall into 2 types: Quantative Qualitative Below are some of the methods most frequently used for […]
Step 3: Making sense of your data
Information and data you collect will either be: Quantitative – Quantitative data uses numbers to count or measure. For example, we can count the responses to multiple choice or rating scale questions in a questionnaire. Qualitative – Qualitative data is descriptive data that is not numerical; for example, feedback collected through open-ended responses to surveys, […]
Step 4: Using your data
Communicating Impact When thinking about sharing your outcomes you need to think about your audience – how might they want to see your impact communicated? There are lots of ways you can communicate your impact: Spoken word – this can be engaging and give the opportunity to hear the voice of your beneficiaries, which can […]
Roles and Responsibilities of Trustees – on demand video
This 35-minute on-demand video takes you through the 6 duties of Trustees as outlined in the Charity Commission’s Essential Trustee: what you need to know and what you need to do, which they state all Trustees should read.
Guide to starting a small voluntary or community group
If you are thinking about starting a new community group this guide will help you decide the best way to proceed Before you start Before you start you will need to think about what you want to do, why, how and who will benefit from your group. You may need to do some basic research […]
Roles and responssilbilities
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