If Impact can be measured then it can also be managed. That is the core conviction of the Impact Management Programme, the latest offering from Access - the foundation for social investment. Goodlabs founder Matt Wilson was alerted to the opportunity via membership of Social Value UK, the innovative organisation championing best practice in social impact reporting.
Goodlabs joined forces with another North East based social impact consultancy - Helmepark - to put together a successful £50,000 bid to the Impact Management Fund on behalf of two regional YMCA centres. YMCA North Tyneside has been serving the industrial communities along the river Tyne for over a century, supporting successive generations through cycles of social and economic change. It has continuously evolved as an organisation in order to best serve the changing needs of its communities, and in order to maintain its own financial sustainability. YMCA Humber has a very similar heritage and through its three supported accommodation locations in Grimsby provides over 100 bed-spaces every night of the year.
The journey we're involved in together is helping the teams at the YMCA centres to manage their impact more effectively through bespoke new impact management tools embedded within an increasingly well-informed impact culture.