Social impact pros
Inspired thinking | Powerful partnerships | Practical support
Shining lights
We work with organisations that shine a light on the serious and complex problems that exist in local neighbourhoods and communities. We help these organisations’ leaders to address the strategic and operational challenges they are facing, and to act in ways that make a positive and lasting difference to the wider systems they operate in. Along the way we help them to generate more income and investment, to strengthen support networks around their life-saving work, and to have the influence and impact their work deserves.
We also work with the other key people in these leaders’ ecosystem, including the funders and decision makers that manage local health, justice and social care systems and services, and the large corporates that have the capacity and potential to change the local landscape for the better.
One of our objectives is to help these organisations to do good business together across the for-profit/not-for-profit divide.
We believe there is a brighter way of creating more neighbourhoods that are safe, healthy, and full of opportunity.
A brighter way
Our objective is safe and healthy neighbourhoods that are full of opportunity, achieved by facilitating systems-focused, multidisciplinary, collective effort and activity.
Our focus is on building collaborations across traditional organisational boundaries in ways that develop and deliver evidence-led programmes that are fully integrated within local health and social systems, and inherently saleable, scalable and sustainable.
Our mission is to create the space, inspire the thinking, generate the resources, and provide the tools that people with lived with experience, charity leaders as well as those in the NHS, local government and other life-saving organisations need to create, nurture and support safe and healthy neighbourhoods that are full of opportunity.
Inspired thinking matters
We know just how much can be achieved when organisations from multiple sectors work together on local programmes and initiatives that can be evaluated, replicated and rolled out at scale. But we also know that partnership working can sometimes feel like uphill work and can take a long time to master.
Our services
We operate at the interface between for-profit and not-for-profit organisations, working on complex and difficult issues that affect people’s quality of life.
Cross-sector
Supporting business partnerships across the for-profit and not-for-profit divide.
Strategic alignment
- Cross-sector values and goals alignment
- Evidence-led operating plans and implementation
- Needs-led extended outreach and engagement
Joint working
- Multi-sector, multi-stakeholder visioning workshops
- Organisational language and culture problem solving
- Facilitated terms of engagement, ways of working and governance
Implementation
- Facilitated planning in relation to cross-boundary business risks, challenges and opportunities
- Outcome/impact evaluation framework development
- Shared learning activities to embed, review and improve partnership effectiveness
For-profits
Enabling corporates to go further and deeper from a social value perspective.
Social purpose
- Evidence driven localised intel and knowledge transfer
- Multi-stakeholder interaction with diverse groups and communities
- Laser-focused boundary spanning across sectors and disciplines
Social context
- Briefings, advice and evidence-led insights relating to key social justice and health-related issues
- Trauma-informed context setting and guidance on causation, effectiveness and systemic challenges
- Orientation and navigation of key social systems
Legacy
- Research-led root cause analysis
- Needs assessments and interaction with local health and well-being systems analysis
- Locally specific, social impact strategies, outcome frameworks and operating models
Not-for-profits
Helping VCSEs with saleability, scalability and sustainability challenges
Strategy and operations
- Full scale strategic, business, and ways of working reviews
- Service designs, improvements and regulatory turnarounds
- Workforce and staff engagement strategies
Business development
- Growth and diversification planning
- Solution design and mobilisation
- Bid management, writing and review
- Funding applications
- Bid/risk and pipeline management processes
Marcoms
- Compelling, purpose-driven marcoms, calls to action and campaigns
- Clear, focused and engaging internal and external communications
- Policy briefings, consultation responses, reports and publications