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For over 25 years, we’ve worked with hundreds of organisations and individuals who want to turn ambition into impact.
Our team brings fresh thinking, strong evidence and a collaborative way of working to help you make progress on the changes you want to see.
We can support you at every stage, from shaping your strategy, to supporting delivery, to evaluating what’s working and learning what to do next.
How we can help
We’ll draw on our expertise and tailor it to your unique challenges and strengths. We’ll work creatively and collaboratively with you, bringing insights from across NPC and beyond to challenge and inform decisions. We’re continually developing our expertise, and we share our learning as we go.
Find out how we can help you
Whether you’re ready to get going on a project, or just want a bit more information on what we offer, we’d love to hear from you.
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Strategy
We help you get clear on what you want to achieve, what success looks like and the best route to get there. Our support is tailored to your context: whether you’re a charity or delivery organisation, a funder or investor, a purposeful business, or working in partnership across a system.
Funders, philanthropists, purposeful businesses and investors
- Help you shape your philanthropy, impact investing and grant-making strategy so you can focus on what matters most and maximise your philanthropy impact (including programme theory of change, due diligence and spend-down)
Charities and delivery organisations
- Work alongside you on organisational, data and systems strategy covering strategy, governance, leadership and theory of change
Cross-sector partnerships
- Help partners agree a shared direction through organisational and systems strategy bringing in systems mapping and systems change approaches where they’re useful
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Implementation
We help you move from plans to day-to-day practice, building confidence and capability, strengthening governance, and putting the right data, tools and ways of working in place.
Funders, philanthropists, purposeful businesses and investors
- Set up learning partnerships and support grant-holders and partners to build their capacity
- Be your services delivery partner and manage your grant portfolio or your foundation
Charities and delivery organisations
- Be a critical friend to your board and leadership, supporting an impact-ready board and confident decision-making
- Help you use data well in delivery, setting an impact and data strategy and building digital, data and tools, from an impact dashboard to wider data support
Cross-sector partnerships
- Design and facilitate the collaboration, bringing people together to agree outcomes, roles and governance, and helping the partnership keep momentum
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Evaluation and learning
We help you make sense of what’s changing and what it means in practice. We combine evidence, evaluation and practical learning so insights are clear, useful and lead to action.
Funders, philanthropists, purposeful businesses and investors
- Bring evidence, reviews and insight analysis to support due diligence, portfolio learning and better decision-making
- Support learning and measurement for social investment and impact investing, so you can understand outcomes and make better decisions over time
Charities and delivery organisations
- Help you understand, manage and measure your impact and use what you’re learning to improve
Cross-sector partnerships
- Share evidence, reviews and insight analysis that helps partners build a shared view and make well-informed decisions together
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Learn more about our approach, our team, and what you can expect from us
Who we've worked with
NPC gave advice, and more importantly 'friendly challenge', when needed, ensuring that the result was a robust, informed and evidenced strategy which will help us deliver impact for the next decade.
Amy Thomas
Chief Operating Officer , Tommy's
