Inspiring Impact NI: Phase 2 Funding for VCSE Organisations and the Arts Sector
Following on from the accomplishments of Phase 1 in 2014/15, Inspiring Impact NI is delighted to announce that seven VCSE organisations have been selected as sub-partners to embed impact practice within their own organisations and with a cohort of members
This will build on the foundations already laid and will support each of these groups to apply the principles of good impact practice as outlined in the Code of Good Impact Practice.
In addition to this, a consortium of five infrastructure organisations within the Arts Sector will be supported to act as Impact Champions and apply impact practice internally and with a cohort of their members using the Inspiring Impact resources. This will be done in partnership with Belfast City Council and will look to build on the Arts Effects toolkit that was developed to support organisations to demonstrate the impact of their work.
Each organisation selected as part of the Phase 2 roll out will receive funding of up to £12,500 from the Building Change Trust to embed impact practice at an organisational level and to act as impact champions within their sector.
The seven VCSE sub-partners were chosen from organisations that have made substantive progress under Phase 1 and are:
- CO3
- Community Development and Health Network
- NICVA
- Playboard
- Sported
- Volunteer Now
- Youthnet
The successful arts sector consortium includes:
- Voluntary Arts Ireland
- Audiences NI
- Arts & Business NI
- Theatre NI
- Dance Resource Base
Aongus O’Keeffe, Leader, Inspiring Impact NI Programme said:
“It’s great to get Phase 2 off the mark and to move to the next stage of our plan for transforming how VCSE organisations and their funders think about and demonstrate the impact of the work they do and investments they make.”
“We would love to have the resources to support all groups that have been involved up to now, however we do see opportunities for groups not in receipt of funding to engage and share experiences through other strands of the programme. We will be looking to see how we can widen the net and get many more organisations applying this way of working and will also be establishing a network of practitioners to share learning and good practice.”
Projects will commence in February 2016 and will run up until the end of June 2017. A range of case studies and other learning documents will be developed and shared throughout the process.
The Inspiring Impact NI Programme is a Building Change Trust initiative supporting VCSE organisations and their funders to better understand and apply impact practice.
As the Northern Ireland partner on the UK board, The Building Change Trust has invested over £750,000 over a 4 year period (2014-2017) in a dedicated programme of support for the VCSE sector and its funders locally. This has been supplemented with £240,000 from the Department for Social Development (DSD).
Community Evaluation NI (CENI) has been commissioned by the Trust to support the development and delivery of this programme.
