Social Impact Report 2014/15
As a provider of enterprise support to social, charitable,
public, and other types of
organisations, Adrian offers a range of services and activities
to a wide variety of clients -
organisations, government bodies, individual enterprises,
residents in local communities,
and thematic communities experiencing disadvantage.
However, underpinning all these different services and support
are a set of core values
values which Adrian is keen to be open and transparent about how
well he is living up to
them across all of his professional activities.
Having been involved in supporting groups and sector bodies to
understand, identify, and
report on their social impact since the last 1990s through
national programmes, individual
consultancy, and the development of sector-specific toolkits,
Adrian has created a bespoke
reporting framework to report against, having not been able to
identify any existing
standards that are suitable for sole traders, or that would
allow him to consistently report
against his performance overall not just in respect of a
specific activity or service.
This framework was originally created in 2005, and each year has
been subject to an open
and invited peer review, leading to its expansion with each
reporting cycle. It is also
structured to identify and report on themes in ways that allow
for external benchmarking: it
is felt that unless this is possible, social impact reporting
has limited value in not
understanding how representative its findings are against wider
market norms and so be
able to appropriately influence strategic and operational
decision-making. And as well as
including comparison with the previous years findings, it also
includes the average score for
each indicator since he started reporting against it to better
identity relative impact and
performance over the longer-term as well.
Anecdotally, Adrian has not been able to identify any other
freelance consultants who
openly report on their performance in this way, although has
attracted global interest and
acclaim for his approach in doing so.
Reflections and narratives on previous years reports can be
found posted on his blog at:
http://thirdsectorexpert.blogspot.co.uk
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Values in Action':
As someone who believes in the value of social impact reporting
and strives to be transparent in
how I conduct my professional work, I have committed myself to
monitoring and reporting
openly on my impact and the extent to which I have been able to
generate benefits in relation to
my values:
2014/5 2013/4 Average over
last 9 years
journeys by public transport, bicycle or foot 88% 67% 67%
turnover invested in continuing development of
skills & knowledge
4% 2% 5%
proportion of supply chain purchases made within
the 'local economy'
(within 10mile radius of registered place of business)
33% 39% 43%
proportion of supply chain purchases made within
the social economy
(from co-ops, social enterprises and charities)
29% 26% 31%
feedback on all training delivered
(rating: excellent- very good)
100% 97% 99%
feedback on all training courses developed
(rating: excellent- very good)
100% 98% 98%
impact of training on knowledge and confident of
participants
+32.1% +64.2% +47.3%
value of pro bono support given* 8,611 7,362 7,451
* calculated from national day rate benchmark calculated by
Skilllfair.co.uk
Social accounts for previous years are available on request
