Inspiring Impact
About Inspiring Impact
Social Value UK are the Inspiring Impact partner for England. Inspiring Impact has an ambitious vision to make impact practice the norm within the charity sector. The next phase of the programme is running from 2018-2021. The programme is being 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. To learn more about the partners head to ‘Who we are’ on the Inspiring Impact website. Learn more about Inspiring Impact here.
The current COVID-19 crisis
Immediate Action:
SVUK have changed all planned face to face activities based on the Covid-19 crisis. This includes the face to face networking activities as a part of Inspiring Impact.
Activities during the current COVID-19 crisis
The Inspiring Impact team are working in a number of ways to deliver support, resources and network activities during these challenging times for the charity sector. These activities are:
1. Inspiring Impact England Online Regional Workshop Series:
Social Value UK are working with regional roadshow partners to deliver a series of regionally focused online workshops that will focus 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
Regions:
The series will cover 6 regions: South East, South West, Midlands, Yorkshire and Humber, North East and North West.
Sessions:
Each region will have 3 interactive impact measurement and management focused online sessions with SVUK and the regional partner.
The sessions will cover 3 topics:
- Overall topic 1: Using data to make decisions
- Overall topic 2: How to gather data – Qualitative or Quantitative? / An introduction to methods
- Overall topic 3: Working practices and organisational culture
Resources:
Each session will include sharing resources, and discussing actions for how to use these in practice. Resources will be shared through the open source resources spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kd1-djd3ZNGWE5V9IbBeUFoVICAkaQGHYjeNS84sjN0/edit?usp=sharing
Dates for your area:
To register for a workshop, click the link in the table below.
| Regional Group | Date | South West | South East | North East | North West | Midlands | Yorkshire and Humber |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Partner/s | Clarity CIC | University of East Anglia and Make an Impact CIC | Vonne and Social Enterprise Acumen CIC | GMSVN, SAN, and LynchPin Support | Kai-Zen CIC | SEYH, SVE | |
| Month | July 2020 | Topic 2 - 15th July | Topic 1 - 16th July | ||||
| Month | August 2020 | Topic 2 - 28th August | |||||
| Month | September 2020 | Topic 3 - 15th September | |||||
| Month | October 2020 | Topic 1 - 8th October | Topic 1 - 28th October | Topic 3 - 6th October | |||
| Month | November 2020 | Topic 2 - 3rd November | Topic 2 - 25th November | ||||
| Month | December 2020 | ||||||
| Month | January 2021 | Topic 1 - 14th January | Topic 3 - 27th January | Topic 3 - 20th January | |||
| Month | February 2021 | Topic 2 - 18th February | Topic 1 - 25th February | ||||
| Month | March 2021 | Topic 3 - 18th March | |||||
| Month | April 2021 | Topic 2 - 22nd April | |||||
| Month | May 2021 | Topic 3 - 20th May |
Support during the current COVID-19 crisis
The Inspiring Impact team are working in a number of ways to deliver support, resources and network activities during these challenging times for the charity sector. These activities are:
1. Inspiring Impact programme delivery partners are delivering a variety of activities online. Find out more on the partner pages:
SVUK: Are running 3 series online in this period:
- Social Value Always Matters Interview Series: You can follow the series on the Social Value International YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAhYEo54686NlRZJDL2Tucw
- Social Value Ideas Exchange: a weekly discussion forum every Friday on the issues that matter to you. You can sign up on the website here: http://www.socialvalueuk.org/services-support/webinars/
- SVI Principle by Principle: A Social Value International series focusing on technical issues of social value accounting and impact management in the current crisis. Sign up on the SVI page here: https://socialvalueint.org/resources/member-webinars/
ESS: http://www.evaluationsupportscotland.org.uk/
WCVA: https://wcva.cymru/
CDHN: https://www.cdhn.org/
2. The Inspiring Impact programme is collaborating with Charity Evaluation Working Group (ChEW), SVUK, NPC, Coalition for Efficiency, UK Evaluation Society (UKES), and UnLtd to deliver coordinated support for research and evaluation during covid-19. Inspiring Impact will be coordinating the compilation of a calendar of our activities and events, which can be shared across all our networks. Inspiring Impact have launched a web-page sign posting people to relevant existing resources and online events: https://www.inspiringimpact.org/impact-support-during-covid-19/
3. Social Value UK are also working with roadshow local partners to reorganise face to face roadshow and workshop events looking at the options for holding sessions in the future once we are able to meet in person once again. In the interim partners are collaborating with SVUK in the online sessions.
Resources for Charities:
There are 2 key areas that have been highlighted as important by numerous partners, and members of the Inspiring Impact programme and network. These are a) Funding in the current climate and b) Impact management in the current climate. This section gives an overview of resources to help with these 2 areas:
1) Charity Support: Funding in the current climate
· Social Value UK have compiled an open source Google Doc that complies resources and links on available funding, funding support and resources, and further reading on this topic: http://www.socialvalueuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Charity-Support_-Funding-in-the-current-climate.pdf
2) Impact management in the current climate:
· Impact Measurement in the Current Crisis – Resources, Tips and Support: http://www.socialvalueuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Impact-Measurement-in-the-Current-Crisis.pdf
Inspiring Impact Local Partners
Over the last year Social Value UK have been working 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.
Partners from 2020 and 2019
Here is a list of partners we worked with in 2019 and will continue to work with in 2020:
| Partner | Location | Area of work |
|---|---|---|
| Social Value Engine | Lincolnshire (but work nationally) | Measuring the change |
| Rose Regeneration | Lincolnshire (but work nationally) | An economic development business working with communities, government and businesses to help them achieve their full potential |
| Social Enterprise Yorkshire and Humber | Yorkshire | Represent, promote and connect social enterprise across the region |
| Social Enterprise East of England | East of England | Supports social enterprises across the East to grow, communicate and demonstrate their impact and social value. |
| Make an Impact CIC | East of England (but works nationally) | Make An Impact helps Social Enterprise to showcase its impact to the world |
| Bath SDR | Bath / Bristol (but work internationally) | Putting respondents at the heart of evaluation, curators of the QuIP – Qualitative Impact Protocol |
| LynchPin Support | Cumbria | Charity, business, community support across Cumbria |
| MB Associates | Cumbria (but works nationally) | Supporting people and partnerships to make a difference cross the cultural, learning, care and community sectors |
| Clarity CIC | South West | Enable social purpose organisations, including community groups, charities and social enterprises to be effective, sustainable and well-run |
Partners from 2019
Here are some additional partners we worked with in 2019:
| Partner | Location | Area of work |
|---|---|---|
| Social Audit Network | Liverpool | Network for practitioners of social accounting and audit in the social economy and voluntary sectors |
| Greater Manchester Social Value Network | Stockport | To influence stakeholders, policy and strategy at the Greater Manchester level around social value |
| Bloom | Newcastle | Procurement specialists |
If you would like to find out more about becoming a partner, please e-mail Catherine Manning.
Inspiring Impact – Key challenges and plans for 2020
Click here to see Inspiring Impact – Key challenges and plans for 2020
For all queries about the roadshows, please contact Rosie Sparrow.
For more details, head to our further information section below.
Ongoing Support
Part of the goal for Inspiring Impact and the SVUK national network is to offer support in the development and embedding of impact practice into organisations. To assist with this ongoing journey, we will be offering and facilitating a range of follow on support, see the further information section for more indepth details.
Further Information
PDF Containing further details as to Roadshow events and support offered.
Read the full press release from the Big Lottery Fund here.
Rachel Tait from New Philanthropy Capital has written a great blog about the important work done by the Impact Management Programme so far and why it is so important to charities and social enterprises. Read it here.
