Wirral Vision for Volunteering - Ripple Effects

This is an interactive, hands-on session where we get together and try to map the changes you’ve made and the things that have happened as a result.

The activity works best if you can bring a small group of people (2-4) from different roles in your organisation/group to plot the changes and impacts together, so that you have a variety of perspectives feeding in. Include volunteers if possible!

What is Ripple Effect Mapping?

• Ripple Effect Mapping is a qualitative research method
• It is useful for gathering data from complex systems where the impacts of changes might be unpredictable - like the voluntary sector!
• People come together for interactive data-gathering workshops.
• In groups, people work to make visual maps of the activities and changes that have been made, and try to track the impacts - intended and unintended, big and small, obvious and hidden, good and bad, on individuals and on communities - of these changes.
• Workshops are interactive and hopefully fun!

Why attend this session?

• Get introduced to a new method of impact analysis.
• Identify the progress that your group/organisation has made towards the Vision for Volunteering and your other organisational goals.
• See the results of your hard work!
• Help us feed into the learning and evaluation of the Vision for Volunteering.