Brandon Trust: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Project:

Design and facilitate a process to engage staff and explore the Trust’s current position with respect to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.

Project description:

Brandon Trust has a vision to create an environment which recognises that unleashing the potential of every individual in the organization creates a more sustainable future. This project is part of a wider strategic piece of work on Equality, Diversity & Inclusion running throughout 2021. The aim of this Pro Bono OR project is to design and facilitate a process to engage staff in initial conversations about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, and provide some baseline evidence of the position today. It would suit a volunteer with experience of qualitative data gathering and analysis, and participative facilitation methods.

Time commitment: 

5-6 days, comprising e.g.:

• 1 day scoping & planning with Brandon’s Director of People
• 1 day designing an evidence-gathering process
• 2 days facilitation of staff engagement (conversations, workshops)
• 1-2 days report writing & handover 

Location: 

Bristol (if possible) or this project could be run online/virtually, but would probably benefit from some face-to-face staff engagement (e.g. workshops). 

Apply:

If you feel you are able to offer your assistance please complete the application form and return along with your CV to ProBonoOR@theorsociety.com by 21 July 2021.

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 Brandon Trust exists to enable children, young people and adults with learning disabilities and autism to live life in the way they choose. They provide high-quality, individualised support that focuses on enabling people to achieve their dreams and truly live free.

For further information about the Brandon Trust please visit www.brandontrust.org

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

Uzima in our Hands - Measuring return on social investment

Project:

Measuring return on social investment. Setting up a methodology to measure the impact of the work Uzima In Our Hands is doing.

Project description:

Uzima In Our Hands supports Uzima Orphan & Day Care Centre, which is located in the Samia district of Western Kenya.

The orphanage provides education, food and basic health care for local children who live in extreme poverty, many of whom are orphans.

There is an indirect link between the funds raised and the good work done by the charity so they would like to set up a methodology to measure the impact of the work they are doing.

The objective is to increase insight for the trustees by including this in the charity's annual report and subsequently to include it in grant requests.

A side benefit could be an evaluation of how financial reporting could be improved.

Time commitment: 5 days. 

Location: The work can be done remotely. 

If you feel you are able to offer your assistance please complete the application form and return along with your CV to ProBonoOR@theorsociety.com by Monday 28th June 2021.

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: 

Uzima In Our Hands is an Isle Of Wight based Christian charity supporting Uzima Orphan & Day Care Centre, which is located in the Samia district of Western Kenya.

Here over 300 children aged 3-18 years are provided with a basic education and two meals a day.  Every child at Uzima has good reason to be there; many of them have lost one or both parents, often due to HIV/AIDS. They may also have HIV/AIDS themselves, Special Needs, health needs or live in abject poverty. Uzima's care means the extreme burden put on the families left to care for them is alleviated and the children and families have hope for a better future.

For further information about Uzima In Our Hands please visit www.uzimainourhands.org

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

In Kind Direct: measuring the number of end users

Project:

Review, and design improvements to, the way In Kind Direct estimates the number of end users benefiting from its work.

Project description:

In Kind Direct (IKD) distributes consumer goods donated by companies, to UK charitable organisations in its network working in the UK and overseas. One of the drivers that motivates both IKD and their corporate partners is knowing that their work ultimately benefits people in need and the charitable organisations supporting them; and it is therefore important to them to understand the scale of benefit.

However, as IKD does not work directly with end users of products it can only use indirect ways of assessing their numbers.  This is even more the case with charitable organisations who act as ‘Coordinating Partners’ with IKD and distribute products out to their member organisations who in turn pass them on to end-users.  Data to derive a figure for number of end users benefiting is currently collected through a quarterly survey of IKD’s network.

The volunteer(s) are required to review the current methodology, the nature of the data, how the data collected is analysed and used, and whether there are any alternative sources of data that IKD could make use of, in order to make recommendations for whether and how IKD can develop more robust and dynamic measure(s) of the number of end users benefiting.

The expectation is that the deliverables will be a re-designed questionnaire, with associated recommendations for analysing the returns; re-worked calculations using IKD’s existing data and additional data sources to get an even better measure; and recommendations for other measures for number of end users benefiting in conjunction with the number of people receiving products.  However, this may be adjusted in the detailed project scoping or during the project.

The project could readily be undertaken by a single volunteer, but may also suit two volunteers working together.

The project will particularly suit a volunteer with experience of performance or outcome measurement.

Time commitment: The actual time required will need to be agreed during the detailed scoping meeting between the volunteer(s) and IKD; and will depend on how well the existing methodology stands up to external scrutiny.  It may be as little as two person-days, and is not expected to exceed 5 person-days unless the recommendations include extensive questionnaire piloting, post-questionnaire analysis and review, or alternative non-questionnaire methods recommended

Location: The work can be done remotely.

If you feel you are able to offer your assistance please complete the application form and return along with your CV to ProBonoOR@theorsociety.com by Monday 21st June 2021.

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: 

In Kind Direct is the UK charity distributing consumer goods donated by companies to UK charitable organisations working in the UK and overseas. Founded in 1996 by HRH The Prince of Wales, they offer a simple solution to connect companies and their products to thousands of charities, community groups, foodbanks and schools supporting our communities. Together they make a difference to 174,000 people each week.

For further information about In Kind Direct please visit www.inkinddirect.org

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