Reflections on impact work &

introduction to workshop

Jane South

Professor of Healthy Communities

j.south@leedsbeckett.ac.uk

Acknowledgements

Valuing Volunteering in Health and Social Care: Using

Research to make the case for investment, 2nd October

2014, Leeds Beckett University

Putting the Public Back into Public Health, 16th January

2014, Leeds Metropolitan University

Community Champions Fair, 3rd November 2014, Leeds,

held as part of ESRC Social Science Festival 2014.

Valuing volunteering event

• Evaluation vital for evidence and for improvement -

“make it normal to evaluate”

• Range of evaluation strategies and methodologies

• Stories and voices of service users bring

volunteering alive

• Broader perspective on the value of volunteering

needed - eg added social value; volunteers from

marginalised groups

• Need for funders to understand sector

• Need a framework of principles

Sources of evidence

Community/citizen knowledge

Research-based knowledge

Learning from practice

Knowledge translation?

Community Champions Fair

Concluding remarks

We can think about …

• Better definition of outcomes and related measures

• More integrative models of evidence

• Knowledge translation as a two-way process

Workshops

A) Introduction to new Volunteering Impact Assessment Tool - Main room

B) Taking a practical approach to measuring impact in the NHS / healthcare

settings - Meeting Room 3

C) Join In’s approach to measuring impact based on Hidden Diamonds

report – Meeting Room 4

D) More than just numbers – volunteering data matters - Seminar room 6

E) The outside of the onion – how to calculate social value - Seminar room 1

F) Measuring the impact of your volunteering policy: Don’t forget to ask the

people it affects - Seminar room 5