Plenty of activity. No simple story.
You are doing valuable work, but the evidence sits across reports, spreadsheets, conversations and people’s heads.
Free guided social impact tool
Turn the difference you make into evidence people can act on.
You already know your work matters. The harder part is explaining who benefits, what changes, how you know and what to improve next.
Talk it through with Bridgit’s Social Impact Advisor. It will help you build a practical impact story, a proportionate way to measure it and a focused plan for what comes next.
Click Start my impact review to open the advisor in the bottom-right corner, then choose voice or text to start.
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Your thinking will not disappear when the conversation ends. Ask the advisor to email your tailored plan to you.
Does this sound familiar?
Your impact is real. Showing it can be messy.
You do not need a perfect theory of change or a new reporting system to begin. Start with what you know, what people tell you and the evidence you already collect.
Measures chosen for reporting, not learning.
Teams collect what funders ask for, yet still struggle to see what is changing and what to improve.
Powerful stories without the wider picture.
Individual experiences matter, but they become stronger when they sit alongside useful service data and outcomes.
What you will create
A useful starting point, not another weighty report.
The advisor asks one clear question at a time and adapts to your organisation. Bring an early idea, an existing framework or a reporting challenge you cannot quite untangle.
A clear impact story
Explain who you support, what changes and why your approach matters.
A proportionate evidence plan
Choose a small set of measures and evidence sources that your team can realistically use.
A practical 90-day plan
Leave with focused next steps to improve, test and communicate your impact.
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Ask the advisor to email your tailored plan so you can share it with your team.
Follow the impact thread
From people’s experiences to better decisions.
Good impact practice joins four things together. The advisor helps you work through each one without turning the process into a tick-box exercise.
Start with people
Be clear about who should benefit and the change that matters to them.
Trace the change
Connect what you do to the outcomes you hope to create and surface the assumptions in between.
Choose useful evidence
Combine stories, feedback, service data and outcome measures without overloading your team.
Learn and improve
Turn the evidence into decisions, stronger delivery and a clearer account of your impact.
Keep it proportionate. Measure what helps you understand, improve and communicate your work. Leave out data that nobody will use.
Start where you are
Bring one question. Leave with a clearer plan.
You can talk or type. The advisor will help you think, challenge vague claims and translate your answers into practical next steps.
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Describe the differenceWho do you support and what change are you trying to create?
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Explore the evidenceWhat do you already know, and where are the gaps?
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Build your next stepsChoose what to measure, learn and improve over the next 90 days.
Grounded in trusted practice
Practical guidance with social value at its heart.
The advisor draws on established social impact and social value principles, then translates them into questions your organisation can answer and use.
SEUK
Social Enterprise UK impact reportsEvidence and insight from the UK social enterprise movement.
SVISocial Value International principlesA recognised framework for understanding and managing social value.
UKGovernment social value guidanceCurrent expectations for taking account of social value in public contracts.
A helpful thinking partner, not an auditor. The advisor supports planning and reflection. It does not verify claims, provide financial assurance or replace independent evaluation where that is required.
Take the overview with you
Share the Social Impact Advisor with your team.
Download the single-page A4 guide for a clear summary of what the advisor does, what you will create and how to get started.
