THE IDEAS SHED.

The Ideas Shed × My Social Impact

What if impact was taken as seriously as financial performance?

We have never had a better opportunity to turn good ideas into action.

New technology gives small groups of people extraordinary power to understand problems, test ideas and build useful things. Let’s use some of that capability on problems that actually matter.

The opportunity

The more powerful the machine, the more human we must become.

AI is not the hero of this story. The opportunity is what happens when new capability meets human curiosity, creativity and judgement.

HUMAN

What matters?

  • Curiosity
  • Empathy
  • Creativity
  • Judgement
  • Values
  • Lived experience

TECHNOLOGY

What becomes possible?

  • Analyse more
  • Move faster
  • Build cheaply
  • Experiment
  • Automate
  • Scale useful ideas

ACTION

Something useful meets reality.

Faster is useful. Direction still matters.
My Social ImpactStrategy for Social Impact Excellence

A genuine Ideas Shed venture

Years spent asking one practical question.

How can organisations become better at defining, making, measuring and communicating their social and environmental impact?

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My Social Impact combines curiosity, creativity and rigour to turn evidence into better decisions, clearer stories and stronger impact.

Explore My Social Impact The Ideas Shed built the My Social Impact website.

What we’re building

Useful things to help more organisations do good stuff.

Not just advice. Practical methodologies, offers and tools that make impact easier to understand, improve and communicate.

ASKSORP2026

Software · LIVE · READY TO USE

Ask SORP 2026

Ask practical questions, find the relevant source paragraphs and use the answers to support informed human judgement.Try Ask SORP
My Social Impact

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My Social Impact

The wider venture helping organisations define, make, measure and communicate social and environmental impact.Explore My Social Impact
Social Impact Excellence

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Social Impact Excellence

A practical framework for organisations that want to get better at social impact, not simply report more of it.Explore the assessment

Website + Software · LIVE · READY TO USE

Festival Impact Reports

A focused platform for capturing, understanding and communicating the difference a festival makes.Explore Festival Impact
Purpose Works

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Purpose Works

Helping organisations align what they say, what they do and what they stand for, turning credible impact into stronger trust.Explore Purpose Works
Charity Impact Reports

Website · LIVE

Charity Impact Reports

A clearer way for charities to bring strategy, evidence, outcomes and stories together, with practical support for SORP 2026.Explore impact reports

Website + framework · LIVE · EVOLVING

Social Impact Claims Code

A practical framework for making clearer, more credible and better-evidenced claims about social impact.Explore the code

Website + service · LIVE

Community Mapping

Understand the people, places, relationships, assets and opportunities that shape a community.Explore community mapping

Software · DOGFOODING · BUILDING

MSI Portal

A developing platform for bringing client work, evidence and actions together in one useful place.Talk to us
Good Numbers

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Good Numbers

Connecting financial reporting with a clearer understanding of the difference charities and purpose-led organisations create.Visit Good Numbers

Doing good is complicated. The tools should not make it worse.

Impact as management

Not another report destined for a shelf.

Financial excellence does not come from producing annual accounts. Organisations build leadership, systems, information, accountability and ways to keep improving.

Impact deserves the same seriousness. It should shape strategy, decisions, delivery, learning and where resources go, not simply what gets written once a year.

STRATEGY→DECISIONS→ACTION→EVIDENCE→LEARNING

The bigger opportunity

Radically specific tools for problems that matter.

Thousands of social and environmental problems have been too niche, too expensive, too technically difficult or too small commercially to justify specialist software.

That is changing. Modern technology can make useful tools viable for smaller groups and more particular problems. The point is not to build everything. It is to make more worthwhile things possible.

More useful tools.
Fewer 80-page PDFs nobody reads.

An invitation

Got a social or environmental problem worth tackling?

Bring us the difficult question, the half-formed idea or the problem specialist software has ignored. Let’s see what curiosity, creativity and technology can do together.

Let’s explore it