Good Impact Practice Guidance Launched for Charities in Wales

Good impact practice guidance launched for charities in Wales

A set of guidelines outlining what good impact practice looks like has been published for the first time in the Welsh language.

Inspiring Impact launched The Code of Good Impact Practice, which has been produced by WCVA’s sister organisation NCVO, was developed through a sector-wide consultation which attracted 130 responses and the input of a working group of 17 organisations, including WCVA, CES, Macmillan Cancer Support, Prostate Cancer UK and the Charity Commission.

The Code of Good Impact Practice is designed to provide broad guidelines that can help all types of third sector organisations to focus on good impact practice—theactivities that an organisation does to focus on the difference that it makes in the form of planning, managing, measuring and reviewing impact. It sets out a cycle of impact practice and a simple series of principles that include:

1. Take responsibility for impact and encourage others to do so too;

2. Focus on purpose;

3. Involve others in your impact practice;

4. Apply proportionate and appropriate methods and resources;

5. Consider the full range of the difference you actually make;

6. Be honest and open;

7. Be willing to change and act on what you find; and

8. Actively share your impact plans, methods, findings and learning.

The report expands on each principle including a description of what ‘good’ looks like, an explanation of why it’s important, and ideas for how it can be applied in practice. The Code is intended to help charities, funders and commissioners in forming appropriate understandings of what good impact practice looks like for non-profit organisations.

Later this year, Inspiring Impact will be releasing more tools to encourage good impact practice across the sector: Measuring Up will be an online self-assessment tool which organisations can use to assess and track their impact practice, and the Resource Finder which will be a one-stop-shop for impact resources, guidance and tools.

A copy of The Code of Good Impact Practice can be found on