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FOCUSING ON IMPACT: WHAT EVERY TRUSTEE NEEDS TO KNOW

Rowan Boase, Consultant, NCVO Charities Evaluation Services

Danmore Sithole, Chair, African Health Policy Network and Trustee, Evelyn Oldfield Unit

Joy Dobbs, Chair, St Albans Centre for Voluntary Service and Associate Consultant, NCVO

7 NOVEMBER 2016

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WORKSHOP AIMS

By the end of the session we hope you will have:• Improved knowledge of outcomes, impact and

good impact practice• A better understanding of how and why

trustees should be involved in impact practice • New ideas about how to improve your

organisation’s impact practice and overcome challenges

WHY SHOULD TRUSTEES BOTHER WITH IMPACT?

• Strategy

• Planning

• Evaluation

• Communication

• Fundraising

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DEFINITIONS

Outcomes: the changes, benefits, learning or other effects that happen as a result of your work

Impact: the broader or longer-term effects of a project’s activities, outputs and outcomes

Impact practice: the activities that an organisation does to focus on its impact

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THE CYCLE OF IMPACT PRACTICE• Share information

about your outcomes (and impact)

• Learn from your findings and use them to improve your work

• Identify your desired outcomes and impact and how to deliver them• Understand what to measure, identify the information you need and how to collect it

• Deliver the work• Collect the

information you need about outcomes (and impact)

• Make sense of the information you’ve collected

• Draw conclusions about your work and any change that has happened

4Review

1Plan

2Do

3Assess

TRUSTEE EXPERIENCE OF IMPACT

• Assign responsibility to a trustee

• Assign responsibility to a Staff member

• Ensure they have time

• ‘Training’ session

• Build Awareness in the organisation

• Aim for the achievable not over-ambitious

USEFUL RESOURCESMeasuring Up! - Inspiring Impact’s online self-assessment tool, which helps you review and improve your organisation’s impact practicewww.inspiringimpact.org/measuringup

NCVO Charities Evaluation Services tools and resources – a wide variety of practical tools and guidance to support all areas of impact practicewww.ces-vol.org.uk/tools-and-resources

THANK YOU

rowan.boase@ncvo.org.uk020 7520 2442@CESOnlinewww.ncvo.org.uk/charities-evaluation-

services