Inspiring Impact

The Insititute for Social Value (then Social Value UK) was the Inspiring Impact partner for England. Inspiring Impact had an ambitious vision to make impact practice the norm within the charity sector. This programme was delivered by 6 partners across the UK, Social Value UK, New Philanthropy Capital, Evaluation Support Scotland, NCVO Charities Evaluation Service, Wales Council for Voluntary Action and Community Evaluation Northern Ireland.

Running from 2012 to 2022, thousands of charities and social enterprises used the programme's free online resources, learning events and grant funding to improve how they plan, deliver, assess and review their services.

Following the closure of the programme, the Inspiring Impact website is no longer online. However many of the resources are still available through the NPC website.

Inspiring Impact Resources Starting to measure your impact

Our contribution

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Regional workshops

Social Value UK worked with regional roadshow partners to deliver a series of regionally-focused online workshops concentrating on:

teaching about impact management
connecting and engaging in a particular place / region
setting up for a potential local support network
make connections to charity networks such as ChEW, or regional groups
resource sharing and signposting (Inspiring Impact resources and all partners resources)
supporting charities in challenging times

The series covered 6 regions: South East, South West, Midlands, Yorkshire and Humber, North East and North West.

Interactive webinars

Social Value UK and the regional partner delivered three interactive webinars on impact measurement and management for each region.

Webinar 1: Using data to make decisions
Webinar 2: How to gather data – Qualitative or Quantitative? / An introduction to methods
Webinar 3: Working practices and organisational culture

Inspiring Impact Local Partners

Social Value UK worked with partner organisations across England to deliver collaborative, locally relevant workshops and networking roadshows on social value and impact management.

We are extremely grateful for all of the work and support our partners have given for this series. Our partners are shown below.

Location

Bath / Bristol (but works internationally)
Newcastle (but works nationally)
South West
Greater Manchester
Cumbria
East of England (but works nationally)
Cumbria (but works nationally)
Lincolnshire (but work nationally)
Liverpool (but works nationally)
East of England
Yorkshire
Lincolnshire (but work nationally)

Area of Work

Putting respondents at the heart of evaluation, curators of the QuIP – Qualitative Impact Protocol
Procurement specialists
Enable social purpose organisations, including community groups, charities and social enterprises to be effective, sustainable and well-run
To influence stakeholders, policy and strategy at the Greater Manchester level around social value
Charity, business, community support across Cumbria
Make An Impact helps Social Enterprise to showcase its impact to the world
Supporting people and partnerships to make a difference across the cultural, learning, care and community sectors
An economic development business working with communities, government and businesses to help them achieve their full potential
Economy and voluntary sectors
Supports social enterprises across the East to grow, communicate and demonstrate their impact and social value
Represent, promote and connect social enterprise across the region
Measuring the change