A Community First Yorkshire event

Evidencing your impact in grant applications

New for 2025 

Applying for that all-important grant can be a time-consuming job, but one that’s essential to a thriving future for your charity or community group. To really make your application stand out it’s vital to be able to demonstrate the difference you are making for people in your community.

‘Easier said than done!’ you may say, but our new interactive workshop with Sue Osborne, who has worked in the charity and social enterprise sector for over 20 years, is designed to focus specifically on this challenge.

Looking to help you showcase your organisational impact in grant bids and other reports, the session will consider how to set out the difference you are making in a Theory of Change model and how to evidence and articulate your impact.

During the session you will explore:

  • The impact your organisation is making
  • How to create a Theory of Change model for your organisation, and how this can help you evidence the impact you are making
  • How to showcase the difference you make to your key stakeholders
  • What makes you different, and how you can capture this when writing grant applications

What will you learn?

You will leave this session energised, with a clear step-by-step approach to creating a Theory of Change model and an understanding of how you can best illustrate the difference you make to the lives of your beneficiaries.

Specifically, you will:

  • Clarify your organisation’s intended impact
  • Work towards the creation of a Theory of Change model
  • Identify those differences that can best be measured/evidenced and consider how this impact can be illustrated
  • Identify data currently not being collected that could be collected for future grant application success

Who should attend?

This session is designed for those who have responsibility for collecting data, reporting on impact, and preparing/submitting applications to funders. It is particularly suited to those who are new to these roles or who are new to concepts such as the Theory of Change.

Please note this training is aimed at voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations and groups based in North Yorkshire or delivering services within North Yorkshire.   

What's included?

All attendees will receive copies of all slides used after the session.

About the trainer

Sue Osborne has worked in the charity and social enterprise sector for over 20 years. She is committed to working with people who are driving positive social and environmental change and hearing the voices of people with lived experience in all her work.

Throughout this time, Sue has been involved in assessing the impact of organisations.  She has supported a wide range of organisations to embed impact measurement into their work as well as create social accounts and or impact reports to evidence the change they are creating.  Sue provides consultancy services to organisations seeking to understand their organisational strengths, to measure their social impact and works as a social auditor, assessing organisations social accounts.

Sue has co-developed the Insights 2 Impact programme, to support people who are new to impact measurement to learn and develop the skills and knowledge they need to evidence the positive difference their organisation is making.

Cost

£35 (including VAT)

Concessionary places 

Thanks to funding from North Yorkshire Council, we have free ‘first come, first served’ places if you meet either of the criteria below. You can self-select a free place during booking.

Criteria: 

You are from a North Yorkshire VCSE organisation with an income of up to £5k

OR

You are from a North Yorkshire VCSE organisation with an income of up to £25k that is experiencing financial hardship and would struggle to pay.

These spaces are limited so if a free place is not shown when you go to book, you can ask to be added to the waiting list for a free place on a future training session.

No shows and concessions 

Please note that if you don’t attend training that you have booked on without giving seven days’ notice, you will be required to make the full payment. This also applies to free places. This is to allow as many participants as possible access to our training. See our  Terms and Conditions  for more information.

Contact details

Booking queries contact
Email: info@communityfirstyorkshire.org.uk
Tel: 01904 704177

Programme queries
Email: communitysupport@communityfirstyorkshire.org.uk
Tel: 01904 704177

Booking details

Book your place here.

Booking deadline date: 27 January (noon)