Make a Real Impact and Prove it

Are you running a brilliant programme that makes a real difference to people’s lives?

Can you prove it?

Funders, commissioners and social investors need to know that you’re meeting – or even exceeding – their expectations. Tight public budgets mean that you need to provide strong evidence of your work’s positive impact.

You might be new to impact management, already developing reporting systems to meet funders’ demands, or committed to improving your impact measurement and reporting. Whatever stage you’re at, your ability to develop sustainable funding will depend on your abilities to:

• tell the story of the changes that your work brings to people’s lives
• show how your projects benefit your funders
• collect data that helps you to prove and improve your impact
• use that data to report impact in a way that is useful to funders and commissioners.

We support social enterprises, voluntary and community groups and charities so that they can improve their impact, develop better programmes and meet the requirements of their funders and commissioners. Hall Aitken can help you to:

• identify strengths and gaps in your impact management with our online diagnostic tool
• Develop a theory of change that will drive your strategy
• Build and maintain robust reporting systems
• Develop your leadership and strategy to put impact management at the heart of your organisation
• Make your business better by taking a holistic view of its strengths and opportunities and developing plans and structures to optimise them
• Map your networks and partnerships to align your impact reporting with the needs of potential clients and partners
• Provide credible, engaging and informative evaluation of your impact
• Convince commissioners of your effectiveness with a thorough analysis of costs and benefits and of social return on investment

We have great and positive experience of working with large and small organisations in the public and third sectors to help them improve and prove their impact on people’s lives. Rob Shipway loves hearing and talking about impact management. If you’d like to discuss your organisation’s needs and opportunities, please call him on 07853 828003.

Test your impact now with our online self-evaluation tool, Indicate.

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