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THIRD SECTOR think tank NPC will resume in-person meeting with a seminar on the issue of Impact measurement for trustees. The event takes place at Clothworkers’ Company Hall on London’s Mincing Lane on 4 April. In its preamble to the seminar, NPC explains: “Impact measurement helps charities to understand their performance and improve their work. But it’s important to have clear expectations about what kinds of data are feasible to collect and how often. Long-term outcomes can be hard to track, but there are other types of data that can inform decisionmaking and help a charity increase its impact. “As the pandemic has shown, regularly collected user, engagement, quality and feedback data can often be more useful in informing charities’ work – particularly when it comes to helping charities to learn and adapt to a changing landscape in real-time.” The free seminar, which is being run in partnership with the Clothworker’s Company, will explore the kinds of questions trustees should be asking their charities in order to inform decision making; what expectations are proportionate when it comes to impact measurement; and the kinds of challenges charities commonly come across when planning their impact measurement.
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Practical examples will be used to think through how charities can approach questions like: • Did we make a difference? • What was our contribution; what • change would have happened anyway? • What worked particularly well about our • approach? The Clothworkers’ Company is one of the Great Twelve Livery Companies of the City of London. Part of its mission is to promote trusteeship among members and improve charity governance across the UK. Founded in 1528 to promote the craft of clothworking, the Company’s members help to fulfil civic duties to the City of London and the Company itself has focused one area of its grant-making on championing good governance, trusteeship, and fostering a more resilient non-profit sector in the UK. In keeping with that focus, for the past 11 years the Clothworkers’ Company has partnered with NPC on its trusteeship events series, with the aim of exploring the key issues affecting charity governance in the UK. Bookings for the 4 April seminar – which begins at 4pm following 3.30pm registration and is followed by a drinks reception – can be made at www.thinknpc.org/events-and-training/ where information on other NPC events can also be found. q
