CELEBRATING 15 YEARS

OF GIVING BACK TO OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES

Impact Review 2015

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)

Measuring ImpactBased on completed projects in 2015 128,896 people supported

at an average cost of £5.06 per beneficiaryImpact Review: http://www.ncf.uk.com/Training/Impact

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

ContextImpact Assessment Framework – nationally piloted through UKCF -

evidence the value of the VCS – Northamptonshire lead pilotBuild 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

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

Raising the Profile

Business Times

Impact Assessment– Reporting and Management Information

Report Templates available on Digits 2 to analyse and summarise outcome and indicator information at different levels.

Impact Reporting

Margaret Giffen Endowment FundOverall 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 for people and communities living within the North of the county and often within wards and areas of disadvantage and poverty.

Outcome Value

Improve access to volunteering 120

Improve community cohesion 2900

Improved community facilities 2000

Improve economic wellbeing 300

Improve health 1290

Improve the community working together 9460

Increase access to sport, exercise and leisure activities 710

Increase opportunities for public to engage with culture and heritage 7500

Increase qualifications and skills 340

Preserve local heritage 7500

Promote opportunites for creativity 1210

Reduce isolation 1450

Reduce substance misuse and addictions 10

Support vulnerable people 2700

Welcome to our Impact Review

We helped improve community life and wellbeing

We helped vulnerable people and families Accommodation Concern

We helped people back into education and trainingBrookside Community Hall

We got people volunteeringTools for Self Reliance

Our Environment

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

We enabled people to get healthy and activePink Rooster

We helped make communities saferSolve It

We helped get people back to work

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Since 2002 thanks to the generosity and involvement of our donors, we have been able

to invest £8 Million supporting over 2,500 groups.

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