What We Do
Committed to Enriching the Lives of Young People
10 For 10 is a Community Interest Company providing strategic support to develop small charities and not for profit organisations that benefit disadvantaged young people across the UK. Working side by side with the leaders of these charities we help them develop their strategic, operational and impact focused processes; to build measurably more sustainable organisations that are not only able to continue delivering important services to young people in disadvantaged communities, but to develop and increase their delivery and reach.
Our Services
10 for 10 supports charities to develop and have a greater impact on their communities. Focusing on the link between organisational development and capacity for fundraising, we demonstrate the impact voluntary sector youth organisations make through robust measurement and evaluation systems and by improving operational processes and wider organisational strategy. This work ensures sustainability of the organisation and a deeper impact within the communities in which they work.
Without a clear strategy that ensures your organisation’s sustainability, it can feel like you are constantly fighting fires with people pulling you in different directions. You may be feeling pressure to do more with less and unsure about how to ensure that your work has maximum impact.
Funders increasingly scrutinise evidence of impact as a condition of funding and your fundraisers may be crying out for better data to support funding applications. This requires the setting up of robust systems to measure the difference you make. But are you clear on what to measure and how?
Strategic Support
Monitoring and Evaluation
With a robust monitoring and evaluation system you can demonstrate the outcomes of all of your hard work and that you are achieving your organisation’s vision, use data to enhance your delivery and provide funders with the reports they need.
We can help through:
A full review of your systems and processes
The design of a strategy to embed impact into the centre of your fundraising
Development of bespoke data measurement tools and frameworks for your project
Support embedding the data capture and measurement systems you need to evidence impact
Support presenting your new found evidence in an engaging format
Training and support to all staff on new systems and processes
Programme Review and Performance
Ensuring your organisation is in the strongest position to be able to deliver your desired outcomes and demonstrate your impact is essential to secure sustainable funding. Once you have the right strategies and processes in place you need a culture that cultivates high performing staff to drive your impact forward.
We can help through:
A full strategic review of your programme
Staff and stakeholder consultations gauging engagement with organisation values and mission
Support developing organisational systems and processes leading to improved efficiency and effectiveness
Development of a strategy to bring impact to the centre of your organisation
Support designing and embedding a whole team impact culture to improve understanding and engagement
A review of organisational structure and capacity in line with objectives and outcomes
Commissioning Design
Service or project design is a critical part of youth programmes. Do you want to adapt your current programme or service or have you identified a need and want to deliver a new service? We take commissioned project ideas and turn them into reality inline with user needs and desired outcomes, whether funding or needs related, ensuring effective cost management and the high impact of the service.
We can help through a four-step approach:
Discover:
Build knowledge and insights to ensure service is achievable
Review the need that will be addressed, and other solutions to the issue being tackled
Define:
Ensure clear brief is established identifying all stakeholders
Analyse necessary outputs and develop the budget accordingly
Develop:
Design service functions inline with need and desired impact
Test concept and appetite with service users
Deliver:
Support full implementation of delivery and all relevant processes
Ensure feedback loops embedded within service
Event Support
If events contribute to your annual income, ensuring your portfolio is fresh and attractive to supporters is as important as delivering high quality, innovative and fun events. Whether your focus is small bespoke dinners or large community events, attention to detail can make all the difference.
We can help through:
A full review of your events portfolio
Supporter consultations garnering quality feedback on their experience of your events
Support developing a full event fundraising strategy focusing on your priorities
Advice and support with project planning and event logistics
Our Portfolio
Our portfolio brings together small youth focused charities in need of transformational support with donors wishing to support them to develop and have greater impact on their beneficiaries. They will receive support to design and develop bespoke monitoring and evaluation strategies and create and implement the necessary systems, processes and tools to achieve this. Each charity will undertake a three-month intensive project, followed by nine months of support to implement systems and manage change internally. Charities will see improvements in operating systems, leading to charity funds going further and making them more sustainable. With a greater understanding of the effectiveness of their programmes, charities will be able to drive improvements in performance and results. This will put them in a better position to access funding, by demonstrating their impact, which will result in an increase in their reach and numbers of beneficiaries receiving support.
Future Men - London
A multi-award-winning specialist charity that supports boys and young men along the path to becoming dynamic future men
The Need:
Future Men focus on seven positive characteristics of masculinity: resilience, inclusiveness, empathy, resourcefulness, reflectiveness, non-violence and curiosity. They want to develop an Impact Strategy that is able to embed and measure these traits across all of their projects and in all aspects of their delivery, as well as working towards a universal way of measuring impact and progress with boys and young men. Through putting the right systems and processes in place they will able to demonstrate how their programmes help young men develop these positive characteristics.
N-Gage - Manchester
A charity that gives young people at risk of educational or social exclusion opportunities and skills to achieve their full potential
The Need:
With multiple projects being delivered by often part time youth workers, N-Gage have often relied on word of mouth feedback from participants. However, with changes in funder expectations they understand the need for a more robust monitoring and evaluation system that is still flexible and straightforward enough for their often part-time youth workers to use. By developing their own Impact strategy, N-Gage will be able to report across the different strands of their work without frontline staff feeling it’s a tick box exercise that changes for each funder.
Focus Charity - Leicester
Focus has been inspiring young people, aged 13- 25 years, to make positive changes in their lives and in their communities for over 30 years!
The Need:
Focus Charity want to develop a strategy that allows them the flexibility to measure their impact successfully despite the different starts and durations these projects have. They also want to develop a culture across the charity from frontline staff to board level, ensuring everyone is bought in and understands the importance of their role when implementing the systems and processes that come with the new strategy. Demonstrating the impact of their programmes in a robust way will help them secure continued funding for successful programmes.
Testimonials
'We really enjoyed working with 10 for 10 reviewing our evaluation and how we measure our impact. It was a good opportunity to step away from the day to day running of the charity and focus on the big picture and our strategy and theory of change'
Ali Palmer - Book Clubs in Schools
Intensive Impact Programme
COVID-19 Response
Today’s funders want to hear about the actual difference charities make in the real world. They care about IMPACT.
We all know about the damaging effect COVID-19 is having on charity income; funders say the number of applications they’re receiving has more than doubled.
“84% of charities have reported a decrease or a significant decrease in their income!”
(Institute of Fundraising, June 2020)
BY CREATING A ROBUST IMPACT STRATEGY, YOU CAN:
• Increase your application success rate
• Boost fundraising income
• Transform the impact you make
• Stand out against your peers
We could support your charity be more competative if you are:
Still using numbers of people reached to talk about what you do?
Unsure how to start measuring the outcomes you achieve?
Having applications being turned down because you can’t provide the evidence and impact data funders demand?
Finding that complicated, time-consuming processes put staff off collecting impact data?
Team
Who We Are
Dominic Cardle
Director
Dominic is a programme development professional with over 15 years’ experience with local and national youth programmes. Dominic has designed, developed and evaluated a wide variety of bespoke programmes for young people, including developing attainment programmes for schools and communities. Specialising in evaluating project impact and tracking performance, growth and outcomes using statistical data, Dominic’s focus from a programmatic perspective has always been developing strategies to improve delivery in a multitude of ways.
Paula Robertson
Director
An operations and events specialist, Paula has over 15 years experience working in education and, after leaving teaching, the third sector. Offering expertise in strategy, team management and negotiation, with an aptitude for impact, Paula’s skills lie in operational structure, process and performance. She analyses a charity’s needs and determines how operations can be altered to improve services to benefactors, better meeting their needs and having a greater overall impact. Paula has delivered sector specific, education and charity events of all shapes and sizes, including a number of mass participation fundraising events overseas. Paula is also a trustee of youth charity TwentyTwenty.
Mel Whitney-Long
Director
Mel is an international development professional with over 15 years' experience of working on women's and girls' empowerment issues through health and education programmes in Asia and Africa. She is currently Head of Operations for Pilotlight, a charity transforming the lives of disadvantaged people in the UK by offering charities and social enterprises access to the strategic business support they need to become more efficient, effective and sustainable. Mel is also Chair of the Farkhunda Trust for Afghan Women's Education.
Lee McDermid
Director
Lee's career in Local Authority Young People's services spans 15 years giving him a vast range of service knowledge. Leading Essex County Council's Children in Care council, Lee's focus is on service improvement, specialising in safeguarding, risk assessment and governance. Lee has led Youth Councils in Parliament giving Young People a voice to advocate for their needs. Lee has been shortlisted for multiple awards for his digital work with Children in care Councils.
News and Updates
Be in the Know!
This is how the school shutdown will affect children for many years
May 14 2020
We don't know fully what impact the pandemic will have on children around the world but developing their resilience will be key and that relies on establishing an environment that enables children to thrive in a difficult context...
"Meeting my youth worker is the only time I eat a meal with another person"
April 29, 2020
A great piece on the importance of youth work, especially during lockdown! It's been incredible to see how some charities have taken all their activities online and continued to engage and support all their vulnerable children and their families.
