Impact Management Programme Evaluation

This evaluation was undertaken for Access by Curiosity Society.

The Impact Management Programme (IMP) ran from 2016 to 2018 and offered support for charities and social enterprises seeking to “increase their ability to quantify, report on, increase and ‘get paid for’ their impact”. Access funded this largely to provide support to those charities and social enterprises seeking to raise investments or contracts and whose impact management capabilities were a barrier to them being able to do so. It was delivered for Access by a partnership led by New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) and it was co-designed by the sector to ensure it was user friendly and reflected organisations’ needs. During its life it became part of the wider Inspiring Impact programme which ran between 2011-2021. An evaluation of that programme was undertaken in 2021. The findings of this evaluation are presented in this executive summary and in the full report.