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The votes are in. The nation shocked, and everyone is frantically checking their social media feeds to try to understand what happens now.

Volunteering is a really rewarding way of creating impact and giving back to your community. It also helps you build your confidence, increase your wellbeing and connect to others. This volunteers’ week we’d like to celebrate the varied volunteering experiences of staff here at Renaisi. Get inspired with these great stories shared by our team.

New Philanthropy Capital and Deloitte hosted an event recently, focusing on the question, ‘Should charities step in for public services in an era of austerity?’ It aimed to explore how the charity sector is changing in response to a shrinking state and filling gaps left by contracting public services. The event featured a panel discussion

It shouldn’t have been a challenging task. This is a fundamental, bread and butter issue for the sector. Every organisation’s core mission is to have an impact. And yet it felt in a small way as if our review was breaking new ground. Predictably, a quick internet search threw up masses of material on growth.

In recent years, measuring and demonstrating impact has risen up the agendas of organisations that aim to do social good. Alongside this, interest in growing the evidence base for effective practice has spread. Scientific evaluative approaches and research techniques are increasingly being applied in not-for-profit service settings. Competition for scarce funding has been a key

Renaisi is delighted to announce that we have been approved as a provider of evaluation and impact management support for the Access Impact Management Programme. The two-year capacity building programme aims to support charities and social enterprises to improve their impact management processes. Through the programme, Renaisi will support organisations to understand what information about

Renaisi is working with The Reading Agency on a number of projects to explore the impact of reading. The Reading Agency is a national charity working to tackle big life challenges, including loneliness, through the proven power of reading. They offer a range of programmes and initiatives targeted at different age groups encouraging people to

Sandra Vacciana from Partnership for Young London writes about the findings of 25%, a joint youth consultation initiative created to gather the voices, experiences and input of young people in London to drive the development of youth policy.

Renaisi and the Centre for Youth Impact are excited to announce a new partnership to advance evaluation and impact measurement in the youth sector. Since 3 April 2017, the Centre has been based with Renaisi’s growing research and consultancy team at our Central London head office, where they share premises and back office functions and collaborate on

Mental health is gendered. For a range of reasons, different mental health conditions are more prevalent among men and women. This means that employment service providers and others wanting to support service users’ mental health effectively need to be able to recognise and respond appropriately to the causes of mental ill-health for cisgendered and trans* men