Project 1 with The Women's Institute: Understanding our strengths

National Federation of Women’s Institutes : Project 1

Project:

Analysing membership data

Project description:

The National Federation of Women’s Institutes is a campaigning and educational charity with more than 200,000 members, based in over 6000 local Women's Institutes (WIs) across England and Wales. Whilst the NFWI regularly assesses total membership numbers, and total number of WIs, it has never previously analysed these numbers in a way that would validate or challenge anecdotal evidence, and help guide management action and insight on issues such as: the number, characteristics and geographic locations of members leaving, new recruits, WIs closing and opening.

This project is to explore the data available to NFWI, identify what outputs would be useful to them, and analyse the data accordingly. A desirable further output is guidance for non-specialist staff to enable them to repeat or extend the analysis in future. 

Time commitment: 5 days 

The volunteer is asked to commit 5 days initially (spread out as needed): 

• 1 day to establish and firm up on requirements and to understand the current systems and data available 
• 3 days to clean and analyse the data
• 1 day to report.  

There is likely to be scope for more work, and this should be assessed by the volunteer, with the NFWI General Secretary, and either included, or identified as a follow-on project for another volunteer. 

Location: The volunteer(s) should spend one or two days on site, in discussions with the General Secretary and staff and reviewing systems. The bulk of the work can be carried out off-site.

If you feel you are able to offer your assistance please complete the application form and return along with your CV to amy.hughes@theorsociety.com by 10^th March 2020.

The OR Society fully supports equal opportunities. As such, we welcome applications from the partially sighted or blind, or those with disabilities.

Information about the organisation: 

The WI plays a unique role in providing women with educational opportunities and the chance to build new skills, to take part in a wide variety of activities and to campaign on issues that matter to them and their communities.

The WI is based on the ideals of fellowship, truth, tolerance and justice. The organisation is non-sectarian and non-party political. WIs are charitable and everything they do must be consistent with that special legal status.

For further information about NFWI please visit https://www.thewi.org.uk/ or email J.Rayner@nfwi.org.uk

For further information about the Pro Bono OR scheme, please visit: www.theorsociety.com/Probono  or email ProBonoOR@theorsociety.com