For commissioners
The Community Impact Platform
Helping local authorities, housing associations and other funders to reach more people and fund more effectively.
Trusted by commissioners and funders across the UK
Is this you?
Are these the problems your team or your organisation are facing?
I want to fund organisations more effectively.
I'm wasting hours managing grant programmes, and we're just funding the same organisations each time.
I need to demonstrate the impact of my funding.
Otherwise I'm worried my team's budget will get cut.
I want to reach more people in my community.
It's always the same people turning up to community engagements, and people in need of support don't seem to find out about it.
Your funding
Fund more effectively
Run a grant programme end to end, with the data to justify funding more local and impactful organisations.
- Accept grant applications
- Make funding decisions
- Automate monitoring and reporting
- Calculate social value
Your access
Help residents reach services run by your VCS partners
Charities, community groups and social enterprises keep their own information up to date, shown to residents in simple, modern pages.
- A map of services, each with a profile page and the distance from a resident's location or postcode
- A shared booking calendar of free and paid activities; organisations are told when someone books
- Volunteer opportunities from a central pool, with shareable adverts, onboarding pipelines, online training and reporting
Referrals
Build a better interface with your VCS partners
Create thematic networks of partners to refer to. They accept or reject each referral, so you hear about outcomes.
- An admin dashboard of every referral's status
- Reports on numbers, reasons and the areas referrals come from
Your reach
Reach more people in your community
Describe who you want to reach, such as "young mothers in your area", and we'll suggest the VCS organisations best placed to reach them.
- Ask partners to pass on information about support funds and engagement projects
- Every engagement project on one dashboard
The partnership between Plinth, London Borough of Camden, and the local VCS is mutually beneficial. The local VCS benefit from a simplified referral system and data insights that are informing next steps in local food provision. This way of working helps London Borough of Camden to ensure that the overall borough response is joined up.
Phillip Vaughan
Covid-19 Community Response and Strategy Lead, London Borough of Camden
Transform your engagement with your VCS
There is a free tier to get started, and paid plans sized to the work you are doing.