Mission and contribution auditing

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Mission and Contribution Audit:A workshop for faith communities

Jim McManus, Director of Public Health, Hertfordshire County [email protected]

Version 6, August 2016

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Context

• This audit tool is designed to help faith communities understand their strengths and how these apply to needs in the local area

• We will take about two hours to go through this


Other resources you could use• Diocese of London Community Audits tool

http://www.london.anglican.org/kb/community-audits/• Anglican Church Mission Audits http://www.acpi.org.uk/Joomla/index.php?option=co

m_content&task=view&id=60• St Agnes’ United Church Leeds – example audit

http://www.stagnesunitedchurch.org/community-audit.html• Diocese of Salisbury learning tool on church and community audit

http://sal.beetledev.co.uk/learning/discipleship/church-and-community-mission-audit• Auditing and profiling tool for rural churches

http://www.arthurrankcentre.org.uk/library-of-good-practice/item/6676-auditing-or-profiling-for-rural-churches-and-communities-an-introduction

• Mission and community tools used by churches http://www.vision4life.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/V4LE-CRCW-7-Mission-Community-Development-Tools.pdf

http://www.london.anglican.org/kb/community-audits/

http://www.acpi.org.uk/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=60

http://www.acpi.org.uk/Joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=60

http://www.stagnesunitedchurch.org/community-audit.html


Steps

1. Understand the needs of your community2. Understand your strengths3. Understand what you could contribute from

your strengths to the needs of your community4. Understand who you could work with and how5. Understand what needs to be in place to do it6. Understand how to evaluate it


Working out what to do and for whom

What population?

What issue/need?

What outcomes do we want?

Which interventions fit

best?

How do we know it’s working?(Evaluation)

1. Service cost and demand

2. Needs (JSNA)

Define the outcomes clearly so you can really assess

feasibility

1. Financial Assessment2. Evidence Assessment

3. Logic mode where evidence silent

1. Financial Assessment2. Outcome Assessment

Questions to ask Tools for HCC


To do

• Work through each of the stages below.• Write up each stage on paper• This should give you an assessment of what

you could do, how feasible it is, and what you need to do it

• You can then turn this into a business case and action plan


1. Understand the needs of your community

Questions about your area

1. Get the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment from your local public health team

2. Look at what it says are key gaps

3. Combine this with what you and other faith groups/vol orgs know

4. Put this together and create a list of greatest needs and gaps

5. Get your local public health team to give their views on this

Questions about you as a faith community1. What population do you serve

directly as members/adherants?2. What is the local population like

compared to this?3. What needs do your adherants

have and how are you addressing them?

4. Do you have the energy/skills/resources to do an external facing project?

5. Are you better doing an internal project for your community?


2. Understand your strengths

1. What expertise and experience do you have?2. What physical and human resources do you have?3. What finance do you have?4. How likely is this to be sustained for the duration of

any project?5. What could you be really good at?6. How good are you at engaging your local community? Try this audit

http://www.connectingpoints.org.uk/assets/uploads/docs/Community_Involvement.pdf


3. Understand what you could do

What are the needs /gaps you identified in Stage 1 which resonate most with you

What are the strengths you have identified in Stage 2 above you could bring here

What could you contribute to meeting these needs/filling these gaps?

Rank these in terms of 1-5 (1 is easiest for you to deliver sustainably, 5 most difficult)

e.g. poor mental resilience in adults with long term ill health

Premises, volunteers, faith members with expertise in MH

Provide a space and a support group for people

2 (need leaders and work team)


How feasibile is it for you to do this?

Strengths/Resources

Weaknesses/Gaps

Your view

Human resources

Physical resources

Finances

Insurances, compliance, health and safety, risk, safeguarding etc

Sustainability

Skills

Reliability of the people

How will you care for your own people involved in this to keep them energised and working?

The more of these you meet, the better the likelihood of outcome


4. Understand who you could work with

1. Who do you know in your community is doing this?

2. Who do you know who has similar interest?3. Who has sources of resources (human, plant,

equipment, premises, funding)?4. Who has the statutory role, if any, in this?5. Could you build alliances to work together?6. What could they do? What could you do?


5. Understand what needs to be in place1. What financial, insurance, premises, human resources

and other key infrastructure needs to be in place?2. What governance mechanisms need to be in place3. What physical and human resources systems,

structures and processes need to be in place?4. What safeguarding, policy, data protection and other

compliance issues need to be in place?5. What marketing and communication needs to be in

place?


6. Understand how to evaluate it

1. Consider what you want to achieve2. Use the FaithAction evaluation tool to work on

this and demonstrate impact


Next Steps

• Put all this together and then consider what your key next steps are

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