Social impact for charities

Social impact is the effect on people and communities that happens as a result of an action or inaction, an activity, project, programme or policy. There is now a requirement amongst funders and commissioners that voluntary and community organisations are able to provide measurable evidence of the impact or change the activities they provide makes to communities and individuals. Read our factsheet on Measuring Impact here.

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What do you think of when you hear the term social impact? Many people jump quickly to the triple bottom line, corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives, or people, planet, profit philosophies.
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Social impact is the effect on people and communities that happens as a result of an action or inaction, an activity, project, programme or policy.
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Theory of Change is essentially a comprehensive description and illustration of how and why a desired change is expected to happen in a particular context.
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This guide is a ten step handbook to creating a theory of change, built on many years of developing them for charities and funders. It focusses on the basics, our core approach.
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This activity and template will help you produce your own Theory…
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