Measuring and explaining your social impact

How do you currently articulate your intended social impact to stakeholders and funders? How do you measure and evidence that impact to demonstrate the effectiveness of what you do?

This session will focus on practical ways to define, measure and report your social impact.

(Further details to follow.)

Voscur's 2020 project is bringing together organisations like yours from around the city to learn and grow together. We’ll be providing free training and one-to-one support to enable you to assess your development needs, produce an excellent business-plan and benefit from new income sources. We’re also building up a network that will give you the chance to share your experiences, challenges and solutions with organisations from other neighbourhoods working towards similar goals.

You can read more about the project here.

Drawing upon findings from the ERVIC Project (Exploring the Role of Volunteers In Care settings for older people), this event will provide an opportunity to exchange ideas about the challenges and opportunities associated with volunteer roles in social care settings for seniors in South West England.

(Part of the West of England Social Enterprise Innovation Partnership including Voscur's Kick Start programme)

Applications are open for the Community Business Trade Up Programme, run by the School for Social Entrepreneurs, in partnership with Power to Change.

To help celebrate #UKCharityWeek and the amazing work charity trustees do all year round, Voscur is excited to host GET INFORMED – Social Investment for Boards as it travels across the UK starting in Bristol.

GET INFORMED provides free practical support and guidance including mentoring for charity trustees to better understand the opportunities and risks of social investment.

This event is the perfect opportunity for trustees and CEOs to:

Are you ready to kick start enterprising changes in your community?  Do you have an idea for a new project, social enterprise or community business and need help to get it off the ground? 

If so, Kick Start could be just what you need. It will help you to:

As funding from charitable and statutory sources gets harder to access we all need to think about other income sources out there that could help secure our services for the future. As usual, “Fund It” will give you access to up-to-date information from major charitable trusts but this year we’ll also be looking at other options. So come along to find out how other charitable organisations are diversifying their income, get top tips for future income generation and find out how to access new income streams effectively.

Join us to: