Useful Links

On this page see selected links to useful websites and resources both local and national.

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Getting started; Identifying the outcomes and indicators


Big Society Capital Outcomes Matrix

To help identify outcomes and possible indicators (as well as ways to measure that the outcome has been achieved). www.goodfinance.org.uk/impact-matrix

 

National TOMs

Mainly economic outcomes, and is also useful if you’re tendering and need to identify areas of social value that you deliver.

www.socialvalueportal.com/national-toms

 

Sustainable Development Goals

Global goals that you could contribute to. www.sdgs.un.org/goals

Make An Impact - Social Value Dictionary

This is the ultimate guide to definitions for impact and social value commissioning and procurement. View or download the guide here.

Financial proxies for outcomes


NHS Reference Costs

From this webpage select the most recent year’s publication to access the National Schedule of NHS costs (which is an excel spreadsheet containing values for every services the NHS provides).

www.england.nhs.uk/costing-in-the-nhs/national-cost-collection

 

PSSRU Unit costs of Health & Social Care

From this webpage select the 'Unit Costs Manual' for the most recent years data and simply download.

www.pssru.ac.uk/unitcostsreport

 

Global Value Exchange

Database to search for financial values.

www.globalvaluexchange.org

Tools to help with data collection or data presentation


SurveyMonkey

Create online surveys and forms

www.surveymonkey.co.uk


Free Online Surveys

Online surveys quizzes & forms

www.freeonlinesurveys.com


Journey Cloud

Online diary to capture individual’s thoughts through word, images etc.

www.journey.cloud


Miro.com

Useful for creating theory of change diagrams and gathering feedback, as well as for creating online graffiti walls.

www.miro.com


IdeaBoardz

For collecting impact data/feedback.

www.ideaboardz.com


Lumen5

to create short videos (copy and paste text and it will create a video for you).

www.lumen5.com


CANVA

Templates for creating diagrams, infographics, reports, brochures and banners etc.

www.canva.com


Thing Link

For creating interactive visuals and maps.

www.thinglink.com

 

Inspiring Impact

Lots of resources and information around impact measurement.

www.thinknpc.org/starting-to-measure-your-impact

 

Theory of Change Software

This article provides details on various software you can use to create your theory of change. www.betterevaluation.org/tools-resources/theory-change-software

 

Calculator.net

This calculator computes the minimum number of necessary samples to meet the desired statistical constraints.

www.calculator.net/sample-size-calculator

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