Impact Review Presentation by Northamptonshire Community Foundation on the 2nd February 2016 at Errol Flynn Film-house.

2. Impact Review 2015

3. Community Foundations
Welcome to Northamptonshire Community Foundation
Community Foundations across UK
connect people who work hard to make
things better (but lack funding)…
With people who want to make a
difference with their money (but don’t
know where to start)

4. Measuring Impact
Based on completed projects in 2015 128,896 people supported
at an average cost of £5.06 per beneficiary
Impact Review: http://www.ncf.uk.com/Training/Impact

5. How do you know what you are
doing is making a difference?

6. Context
Impact Assessment Framework – nationally piloted through UKCF -
evidence the value of the VCS – Northamptonshire lead pilot
Build the monitoring and evaluation skills of grassroots groups.
Impact measurement tool to help evidence value of local funding and
demonstrate impact of individual donor, single programme or multi
programme funding.
To ‘deep mine’ impact of funded activity and report this to donors and
funders.
Evidence value of sector across a broad range of themes.
The VCS can achieve a positive impact creatively, flexibly and quickly as
not privy to the same restrictions as public/private sector
Promoting Impact to show the value of the sector to the wider public

7. Building good practice
• Implementation of Impact Framework for 46
Community Foundations and training visits –
20,000 grants to the value of £65 million
• Development of an Impact Committee
• UKCF conference in partnership with Inspiring
Impact Northern Ireland
• Monitoring and Evaluation workshops for groups
• Part of working group on Impact in partnership
with Voluntary Impact Northamptonshire and
Northamptonshire Analysis

8. Raising the Profile

9. Business Times

10. Impact Assessment
– Reporting and Management Information
Report Templates available on Digits 2 to analyse and summarise outcome and indicator
information at different levels.

11. Impact Reporting

12. Margaret Giffen Endowment Fund
Overall the Margaret Giffen Endowment fund has benefited 13,270 people in Northamptonshire. The top three outcomes of the fund are improving the community
working together, increasing opportunities for the public to engage with culture and heritage and preserving local heritage. These benefits have been predominantly
forpeopleandcommunitieslivingwithintheNorthofthecountyandoften withinwardsandareasofdisadvantageandpoverty.
Outcome Value
Improveaccesstovolunteering 120
Improvecommunitycohesion 2900
Improvedcommunityfacilities 2000
Improveeconomicwellbeing 300
Improvehealth 1290
Improvethecommunityworkingtogether 9460
Increaseaccesstosport,exerciseandleisureactivities 710
Increaseopportunitiesforpublictoengagewithcultureandheritage 7500
Increasequalificationsandskills 340
Preservelocalheritage 7500
Promoteopportunitesforcreativity 1210
Reduceisolation 1450
Reducesubstancemisuseandaddictions 10
Supportvulnerablepeople 2700

13. Welcome to our Impact Review

14. We helped improve community life
and wellbeing

15. We helped vulnerable people and
families
Accommodation Concern

16. We helped people back into
education and training
Brookside Community Hall

17. We got people volunteering
Tools for Self Reliance

18. Our Environment

19. We helped people get into arts,
culture and heritage
Higham Ferrers WW1 History Group

20. We enabled people to get healthy and
active
Pink Rooster

21. We helped make communities safer
Solve It

22. We helped get people back to work

23. Coming Soon

24. Join us on the journey to help build
thriving communities
Since 2002 thanks to the generosity and
involvement of our donors, we have been able
to invest £8 Million supporting over 2,500
groups.
Join the Foundation Family
Thank you for joining us today!