Impact & evidence
We would rather report honestly than impressively.
Impact film
How we think about impact
The sector has a habit of counting activity and calling it change. Sessions conducted. People reached. Events held.
None of those are outcomes. A workshop that everybody attended and nobody applied has reached a large number of people and changed nothing.
Before a programme begins, we agree with our partners what change we are aiming for and how we will know whether it occurred. We report against that — including the parts that did not work.
From the field
Photo gallery
Our commitments
What we measure
Did something change for the person?
Not attendance, not satisfaction. Whether their circumstances, capability or wellbeing actually shifted.
Did something change around the person?
Whether the classroom, the household, the school or the community operates differently now than it did before we arrived.
Did it hold?
We return. A change that disappears three months after a programme ends was not a change; it was an event.
What did it cost, and was it worth it?
Our partners are entitled to know both.
Reports and disclosure
We publish our programme reports and audited financial statements. Partners receive detailed reporting on the specific work they fund, on an agreed schedule.
It will be published here, alongside our audited financial statements, at the close of our first full reporting year. Partners receive programme reporting on an agreed schedule from the day work begins.
Consent first
Stories
We publish accounts of our work only with the informed, written consent of the people involved. We do not use anyone's difficulty to raise money, and we do not publish identifiable details of children.
Where a story is told, it is told because the person wanted it told.
Fund work that reports honestly.
Agreed outcomes, plain-language reporting, and an account of what did not work alongside what did.