Improve your volunteering service and prove its impact within health & care

Helpforce's Insight & Impact (I&I) service provides an end-to-end process of evaluating volunteering, helping you to gather the evidence you need to show that your volunteers are making a difference within health & care. We support you to design your evaluation, collect data, demonstrate impact against outcome measures and obtain insights to support continuous service improvement.


Our work to date

How Insight & Impact is already making a difference

We have worked with health organisations over the last 3 years to collect data on high impact volunteering roles, and produce evidenced findings against key NHS measures.

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Live I&I projects

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Completed projects

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Evidenced outcomes

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Organisations being supported

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Projects collecting data

Take a look at the evidence we have gathered so far...

Evidenced outcomes

We have worked with multiple NHS organisations on their insight and impact projects. As a result, we have identified key outcomes that demonstrate the impact volunteer services are having.

See all our evidenced outcomes here

The I&I platform has helped me think through evaluation of my projects in a logical and robust way. The team are friendly and readily on hand to provide valuable expertise and insight throughout the evaluation journey. Through working with the I&I service, I feel confident that I am measuring what I need to and when I need to in order to prove the positive impact of my project.

Laura Greene, Head of Volunteering

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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