Transforming Impact Measurement for Home-Start Cambridgeshire
Home-Start Cambridgeshire supports families with children under five, helping them get a better start in life through a variety of support types. These include volunteer-led home visiting, remote support, family groups and specialist parent-child relationship support.
Challenge
The charity needed to measure and communicate the full impact of its National Lottery Community Fund project, Big Hopes Big Future. This was vital for securing future funding and demonstrating value to funders and stakeholders.
Our solution
- Advised on social value measurement methods for the Big Hopes Big Future project.
- Developed a comprehensive social value report to showcase outcomes and wider community impact.
- Collaborated with the Chief Executive to embed social value reporting into the annual project report, making impact measurement part of everyday practice.
Results
- In the project’s first year, every £1 invested generated £7.44 in social value—demonstrating the powerful effect of their work.
- Home-Start Cambridgeshire now confidently measures and communicates its impact for the Big Hopes Big Future project.
- Improved reporting has helped the charity understand its wider impact and has inspired plans to integrate impact reporting across the organisation to improve its annual reporting.
“Kirsten’s support has helped us clearly demonstrate our impact and social return on investment to funders and stakeholders for our Big Hopes, Big Future project. We now feel more confident in our reporting, and with Kirsten’s guidance are looking to build social value measurements into other areas of our work. This will help us secure funding for future projects whilst demonstrating to our volunteers the true impact of the work they do.”
Hayley Norfolk, Chief Executive, Home-Start Cambridgeshire
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