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Every day, staff and volunteers at 169,000 charities across Britain endeavor to meet people’s needs, tackle social inequalities, or avert environmental or humanitarian crises.
To succeed, charities must work as efficiently and effectively as possible, making best use of their funding. They must find new ways to adapt and flourish in a changing policy environment and take advantage of innovations that have the potential to drive their work for a better world.
We provide the tools and resources to enable charities and funders to do this, so you can focus on the people you serve. We explore and develop approaches that have the potential to benefit the whole social sector, so that charities can flourish.
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Starting to measure your impact
Take your first steps into measuring, understanding, and improving your impact.
Starting to measure your impact
Strategy Peer Network
Discussing all aspects of charity strategy development and implementation, the strategy peer network is an informal group facilitated by NPC. It provides a space for those who work on charity strategy to share challenges and ideas; to make connections and to learn together.
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NPC has a wide range of events from practical webinars to seminars for trustees, to our annual conference.
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Bespoke support
We’ll work creatively and collaboratively with you, drawing on insights from across NPC, the charity sector and beyond to challenge and inform decisions.
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Theory of change in ten steps
This new guide is a ten step handbook to creating a theory of change, built on many years of developing them for charities and funders. It will teach you the basics, our core approach, with the information you need to do any theory of change.
Thinking big: How to use theory of change for systems change
Applied well, theory of change can support charities and funders to take a systemic approach to their work. This report identifies five common pitfalls when using theory of change, and walks through five rules that will help organisations to use the approach to tackle complex problems.
Understanding Impact
How to turn your theory of change into a plan for measurement, the five types of data you will need to pay attention to, and how to prioritise what to measure.
Make it count: Why impact matters in user involvement
Involving users in shaping services and strategies is increasingly considered to be both the right and most effective way for the social sector and charities to work. This paper argues for a greater focus in the social sector on what user involvement aims to achieve and evidencing its effectiveness.
