Imperial Health Charity to pilot new impact evaluation tools
Imperial Health Charity to pilot new impact evaluation tools
13 July 2017
Imperial Health Charity is to join forces with several other NHS charities to develop a set of new evaluation guidelines that will help us improve our work across the Trust’s hospitals.
We will be working closely with the Maddox Group of NHS charities and the charity sector think tank NPC to create a set of tools for assessing our impact.
Part of NPC’s Inspiring Impact initiative, the project aims to help charities better understand how their work is making a difference.
The Maddox Group comprises 12 of the largest NHS charities – including Imperial Health Charity – who will pilot the tools developed by Inspiring Impact.
The project will enable NHS charities to speak collectively about their vital work supporting patients and staff across the country.
Ian Lush, Chief Executive of Imperial Health Charity, said: “For any charity, knowing the difference your funding makes to your beneficiaries is important. For NHS charities, helping patients in hospitals at very vulnerable times in their lives, it is vital we can measure the impact of our work effectively and see where we can really change things for the better.
“Bringing together NHS charities through the Maddox Group and working with experts at Inspiring Impact will enable us to do so, and we are excited about the difference this study will make to our strategy for the future.”
Imperial Health Charity supports the five hospitals of the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust by providing state-of-the-art equipment, funding research fellowships, supporting patients at times of financial hardship, organising hundreds of dedicated volunteers and managing an impressive art collection and engagement programme.
Alongside CW+ (Chelsea & Westminster Health Charity) and the Royal Free Charity, we have led the way in developing collaborative strategies for demonstrating charitable impact on the NHS and its patients.
NPC previously worked with NHS charities to create a ‘theory of change’ framework enabling the charities to understand what they have in common, despite differences in size and scope.
