Presented at NCVO’s 2015 Evolve Conference by:
- Colin Shearer, Director West, Churches Conservation Trust
- Hannah Mitchell, Head Of Knowledge and Innovation, Vinspired
- Gethyn Williams, Head of Partnerships, Join In.
How to identify the tools needed to asses the impact of volunteering in your organisation, and communicate with commissioners and funders to make the case for investment.
https://www.ncvo.org.uk/training-and-events/evolve-conference
1. SPEAKERS:
COLIN SHEARER, DIRECTOR WEST, CHURCHES
CONSERVATION TRUST
HANNAH MITCHELL, HEAD OF KNOWLEDGE AND
INNOVATION, vINSPIRED
GETHYN WILLIAMS, HEAD OF PARTNERSHIPS,
JOIN IN
FACILITATOR:
NICK OCKENDEN, HEAD OF RESEARCH,
NCVO
P2: ARE YOUR VOLUNTEERS
WORTH IT?
2. Measuring the impact of
volunteers at The Churches
Conservation Trust
The national charity saving
historic churches at risk
A secular heritage organisation
2015 Europa Nostra Award for
dedicated service to heritage
Volunteering worth £750,000
and rising by 10% pa
3. St Mary,
Ashley
St Nicholas,
Freefolk
St Peter ad Vincula,
Colemore
St John the Baptist,
Eldon
St Mary,
Hartley Wintney
St Mary,
Itchen Stoke
All Saints,
Little Somborne
St Mary the Virgin,
Preston Candover
4.
5. Our volunteering journey
Has shifted from a few Friends groups and local
key-holders to:
Volunteer teams with the right skills and following
an agreed plan running open churches, that are
sustainable and meet a high visitor standard
6. Objective of research using Institute for
Volunteering Research framework
Find out what works and share learning to help
grow capacity of volunteer teams to achieve aim
Part of an external evaluation of our first 3 year
volunteering strategy and to inform development
of new strategic programme now being delivered
7. Our approach:
Prepare 9 case studies in varied circumstances
Use Volunteering Impact assessment framework as
model
-identifies 5 areas of capital or assets to map
findings:
Human, Social, Cultural, Economic, Physical
More info at www.ivr.org.uk
8.
9. 23 January 2015
Volunteers do indeed
build up and make an
impact in all 5 forms of
capital. Case studies
document available today
and also online at
www.visitchurches.org.uk
10. • Volunteers develop their personal confidence,
knowledge and skills (human capital)
• Develop a sense of community, stronger social
networks, trust and citizenship (social capital)
• Develop an understanding of and engagement with,
local culture and heritage (cultural capital)
• Benefit local economy, create employment, and
encourage community regeneration (economic
capital)
• Significant contribution to developing local
infrastructure (physical capital)
11. Qualities that stand out to
understand and reinforce
• Connected to communities
• Support for volunteers
• The sacred and the secular
• Partnerships
12. Sharing the learning:
On line and printed case studies
Structure:
The challenge
The response
The learning
The outcome
27 September 2010
13. Dissemination
National launch with Baroness Andrews
Mailed to all volunteers
Going out to partners
On line resource
Basis for dialogue involving staff and volunteers
15. Learning
Model works and could readily be used again
Involve a designer in final presentation
Share outcome with all volunteers
Excellent support from IVR
Using a proven external assessment
tool adds a great deal to credibility and status of
research
19. What is the collective
impact of vInspired’s
programmes and
services?
How can we
compare the impact
across programmes?
How can do we embed
impact measurement
into our delivery?
The problems How can we find a
cost effective way to
measure impact?
Is our impact
approach robust
enough for impact
investment?
21. The first step – an internal team
21
Strategy,
partnerships,
innovation, product
development,
fundraising
Head of
Knowledge and
Innovation
Impact
Coordinator
Database
Manager
Building and
embedding systems
to collect and store
the data
Research methods
and design, data
analysis, reporting
Marketing &
communications
Digital design &
development
Programme
evaluation leads
22. A strategic evaluation partner
22
Validating
tools
Qualitative
fieldwork
Analysis
and
reporting
Strategic
advice and
guidance
23. A theory of change
• To consolidate understanding of impact
• To provide a framework to consider what to measure
• To align each team’s work to shared vision
• To provide a framework for decision making
• To strengthen our funding opportunities
24. Young
peopl
e have
skills
for life
Young
people take
action on
issues they
care about
Young people
join
vInspired.com
Young people are
self aware
Young people
learn from their
successes and
failures
Provide
resources to help
young people to
reflect upon their
experience and
skills
Young people
know how to use
their networks
Young people
make progress on
their employment
journey
Young people are
more resilient
Contributable
outcomes
Support
organisations to
give meaningful
feedback
A connected
network of young
people and
organisations
Young people
feel social action
is for them
Build motivation,
interest &
confidence in
social action
Young people are
positively involved
in their
communities
Young people
value their
achievements
Young people
improve their
communication
skills
Young people
can express their
skills and
achievements
Young people’s
confidence
increases
Young people
increase empathy
and compassion
Provide
opportuniti
es for
young
people to
design and
lead social
action
Provide entry
level social action
opportunities
Support young
people to access
a variety of social
action
opportunities
Provide
opportunitie
s for young
people to
apply
experience
their to
employment Young people are
more confident
about their future
Support young
people to
encourage other
young people to
take part in
social action
Create partnerships
which deliver high
quality and relevant
social action
opportunities
Young people’s
achievements
are valued
Organisations
understand the
impact of young
people’s social
action
Attributable
outcomes
Communities
benefit from
young people
taking action
Support
organisations to
understand
impact of youth
social action
Breadth of
social action
opportunities
increases
More organisations
develop quality
opportunities
relevant to young
people
Quality of social
action
opportunities
increases
Communities
benefit from
socially
engaged young
people
Young people
continue to
engage in social
action
Support activities
to promote social
action to young
people
Young people feel
part of a
connected
network
supporting social
change
Young people
understand the
impact of their
social action
Activity
Young people
outcome Goals
Key
Enabling
factor
Organisation/
community
outcome
Young people
increase optimism
by seeing the
effects of their
input
25. Measurement framework
• Track young people’s and
organisation’s pathways to
outcomes
• Improve the experience for
young people across all of our
services
• Bring together traditional
impact measures and lean
social metrics
• Automate impact measurement
through website
• Build in external measurement
tools for social action
26. Top tips
• Standardise outputs
• Review data capture at programme level
• Start collecting and reporting regularly
• It takes time
• Test approach and pilot methods
• Involve teams across organisation
• Review external frameworks relevant to your activities
• Have an external partner
• Consolidate data points across organisation