Online Summit
Third Sector’s Pounds & Purpose
Join us to learn about the finance and tech strategies that will future-proof your charity and strengthen your mission for the long term
12
Feb
Why finance teams – and their data – are essential to impact reporting success.
In a world where charities are increasingly strapped for time, writing an impact report might not be top priority. With updated SORP guidance making it a compliance necessity, this session explores how organisations can move beyond ticking boxes to create powerful reports that genuinely communicate their mission, outline achievements and connect with previously untapped audiences.
We uncover the essential actions all charities should take and demonstrate why the finance team and its knowledge of systems and data must be at the heart of this strategic process.
Tune in to our fireside chat as we explore:
- Finance as the crucial partner: Why impact reporting is becoming essential and why finance is vital to its delivery.
- Building a powerful report: Key content for a high-impact report, using data to quantify success and articulate mission achievements.
- Data, systems and innovation: How financial data and systems knowledge, combined with tech innovation, enhances reporting value and accuracy.
- Future-proofing through partnerships: Embedding reporting into future practice to secure vital partnerships and ensure organisational longevity
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SpeakersTris Lumley Open for all director New Philanthropy Capital (NPC)
Emily Burt Editor Third Sector
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Tris leads Open For All—a programme of work that aims to enable the social sector to share its knowledge, research, insight, evidence and data in the Commons, for the benefit of all. NPC is a founding partner of the Open For All programme. Tris is also an Entrepreneur in Residence at Ashoka.
He initiated and leads NPC’s Open Philanthropy programme, which has so far included the development of an open philanthropy fund focused on financial hardship in the UK, and current projects working with the Henry Smith Charity to explore how grant-making processes can contribute to open and shared knowledge and insight.
For 20 years Tris has led aspects of NPC’s work, as Director of Innovation and Development until September 2024. He kick-started NPC’s work on digital technology with the Tech for Common Good programme, which led to the development of youth digital prototype My Best Life, now spun out to commercial development by partner Mind of My Own. The Signpost+ programme continued this work, and now leads into NPC’s Open Youth Infrastructure programme.
Tris spent many years focused on developing impact measurement across the social sector in many ways including initiating the 10 year Inspiring Impact programme, helping establish the Social Impact Analysts Association and later Social Value International, and as an ambassador in the Leap of Reason Ambassadors Community. He is also on the board of two charitable foundations, Intersticia and the Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropy Foundation, and is a regular speaker at international conferences.
Before joining NPC in 2004, he worked in consulting, emerging technology research, and scientific and engineering innovation. He enjoys running and cycling much more than he probably should.