Value for money

Are our services Value for Money? See if you agree with us!

Here you can see our Short Summary on how we deliver Value for money, or have a look at our full Self Assessment
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At Impact we have a Key Commitment to delivering Value for Money.  This is absolutely fundamental to us, because  we operate as a charitable organisation, we need to make sure every penny counts and leads to tangible and ambitious benefits for our customers.  We look at Value for Money in its widest sense and make sure:

• What we spend provides Value for Money and we get a good return from it
• How we work is efficient and effective so we don't waste time or other resources
• What we do is relevant and leads to benefits for our customers
• We constantly look for new services, funding or partnership opportunities that will help existing or future customers

This year there are three particular areas that we are concentrating on:

• How to sustain parts of our business by looking at different ways of doing things. The sorts of things we are looking at are increasing business, diversifying, and greater use of volunteers.  The Oval Centre in Salterbeck is a good example of a service which we really want to support because of the local advantages it brings, and the staff team are being creative and flexible to achieve this.
• Provide badly needed additional local housing supply using the most cost effective ways to purchase or develop in an increasingly difficult economic climate..  So far this year our Development Team have bought 12 new homes at competitive prices and been very successful in their funding bids for new developments - including significant numbers of extra care housing.
• Tax and other efficiencies that we could get from a different company and operational set up.

No stone is left unturned and we continue with an ongoing programme of challenging reviews which will ensure we continue to deliver Value for Money.