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Impact Accelerator Programme

6 week live impact programme

Course Summary

A live 6 week programme covering everything you need to know about impact measurement.

With live Q&As and access to the recordings after each session, you'll leave the sessions with tailored information and guidance relevant to your organisation, covering:  

Getting started with measuring impact  
Data collection processes  
Analysis and learning from impact data  
How to effectively communicate your impact  

No more stressing about your impact measurement - get it figured out with this programme.  

This is a live programme, starting Thursday 12th January 2023 running weekly 10-11.30am UK time.  All sessions are delivered online via zoom.

You'll have access to the recordings to watch again or if you've missed a session.

Pay in full now for £285, or pay via three instalments (£120 now, followed by two further monthly payments of £120, with a total of £360 payable).  

The option to pay via instalments is only available until 10th December 2022.  

Course Curriculum

Heidi Fisher

Heidi is the founder of Make an Impact CIC – a social enterprise that supports other social enterprises, charities, public sector agencies and for-purpose organisations to better measure, manage and communicate their impact.

Heidi has been supporting organisations with impact measurement and management for over 20 years, working across all sectors, but she particularly loves working with organisations delivering health and social care, employability and skills, and financial inclusion, and using a Social Return on Investment approach. Heidi also loves organisations that don’t just want to tick boxes but genuinely want to go above and beyond, and continually focus on maximising the impact they have.

Heidi is multi-award winning and received an MBE for Services to Innovation in Social Enterprise and to Impact Measurement in the 2020 New Year Honours.

Heidi has worked with over 3,000 social enterprises, ranging from start-ups through to those with over £1 billion of income supporting them to become more sustainable, develop their trading income and to better measure, manage and communicate the impact they have.  Heidi shares her experience and knowledge through delivering workshops and regularly delivers for universities and enterprise programmes in the UK and also globally.

Heidi is the author of two books, "Impact First: The social entrepreneur's guide to measuring, managing and growing your impact" and “Social Enterprise: How to successfully set up and grow a social enterprise.” Her vision is a world where all businesses are social enterprises that positively impact people and the planet.

•Heidi's session provided lots of useful tips, information and practical 'everyday' examples that made things easier to understand.  Lots of useful resources too.

 •Good specific examples, engaging presenter.

•I loved it, Heidi is incredible.

•For me there were so many great takeaways.  I love the fact that measuring impact doesn't have to be complicated, time consuming or expensive; the idea of a wooden brick in a box for a yes or no answer is so simple and cost effective.  Linking our work to the Sustainable Development Goals is brilliant and the examples of how to present social impact to stakeholders was really helpful - we will do this in our annual Trustees' report which needs to be done very soon.  

•I was having a really bad week following unfruitful negotiations. This session helped me realise that We're giving the council the wrong kind of social impact data. What they want to see is a ROI, we need to be reporting why we provide them with the best solution in relation to the things that matter to them not reporting on the things that matter to us or to the end user.  

•Lots to take away from this session on what we can do to capture info to enhance our story.  And the awareness that this is valuable.

•A lot of really important stuff for me.  I have had such a lot of funders want this social measurement information and I feel better placed to achieve it now.  

•The project that I'm involved with is 'on-going' and we need to review our Theory of Change document as we look to open up new facilities.  

•She came completely packed with very useful information.
 
•This was one of the areas I needed clarity on - Heidi delivered the topic in a really pragmatic and informative way.  

•Fascinating area to deep dive into.  

•A fantastic jog through impact measurement, the whys and hows. Great resources and Heidi clarified how impact measurement needs to be built in at ground level, to ease all process and keep us on course with our projects. 

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