Resources

Free, practical guides for small charities: writing outcomes, capturing evidence, and reporting to funders. There’s no sign-up and no email address required, just read and use them.

How to write a good outcome

Outputs vs outcomes, the five most common mistakes, and how to write outcomes funders actually want.

Plain English Guide to SORP 2026

What the new SORP 2026 rules mean for charity impact reporting, and how to prepare.

Is your charity’s impact data future-proof?

Why your impact data should outlast any one tool, and how to keep your charity’s evidence portable and yours.

How to report to multiple funders

Stop writing the same report five times: one evidence base that feeds every funder’s format.

Using AI to write your funder reports

Where AI genuinely helps with funder reports, where it can’t help at all, and how to keep yours trustworthy.

How to measure soft outcomes

Quotes, observations and simple scales: what counts as evidence when the change you make isn’t a number.

Example outcomes for small charities

Youth, mental health, food, older people and more: outcomes to adapt for your own work, with the evidence to back each one up.

How to capture evidence as it happens

A quote, a number, a photo, a note: the one-minute habit that means the evidence is there when the funder report is due.

Moving to a new impact reporting tool

Export first, rebuild your outcomes, bring this year forward and archive the rest: how to change tools without losing years of work.