Our Impact

We capture our impact data in many ways. We send routine surveys to families, estranged young people, and frontline workers at three and six months after a grant has been made, and we read every response carefully to learn from the successes and challenges they capture. As part of our 2025-30 strategy, we are testing new methods to understand the impact of our grants from the perspective of children and younger people. 

Similarly, over the course of the strategy, we are going to be updating our Theory of Change to capture the wider work that our organisation undertakes. This will be an important opportunity to evaluate the impact of everything we aim to achieve for children and young people. Currently, our Theory of Change aims to ensure and promote improvements to:

• The physical home environment
• Capacity to engage in education
• Measures of wellbeing, including happiness, confidence, friendships, behaviour
• Family relationships and parent/carer coping strategies
• Access to resources and support networks outside the home
  

Some of the key impact data reported in our 2024 report

We analyse these findings at a deeper level by considering demographic data, spend per grant, the reasons for the award and the types of items/experiences granted. This allows us to evaluate and improve our grant-making. We also value the qualitative – aka written and expressive – insights that our grantees provide us with, and closely examine these to better understand the impact of our grant-making.