Demonstrating impact

This is part of a series of regular bi-monthly catch-up for members of the Campaigns and Communications Ambassadors’ Network (CAN). 

This session will take you through the key ingredients of writing well to engage your audiences, whether telling a story or writing for impact.    

Type of event

Interactive learning session to a large audience with time to ask questions. 

Who is this event for?

This event is for anyone involved in writing for their local Healthwatch. 

What you will learn?

By taking part in this session, you will: 

This session will outline how the health and social care system works in your local area and show you, in practical terms, how you can build effective relationships with the people who commission and provide local services.   

This session will help you understand the basics when it comes to accessibility and the steps you can take to ensure your communications are accessible as possible.

Type of event

Interactive learning session to large audience with time to ask questions. 

This meeting will give you the opportunity to hear from two or three Healthwatch about research and engagement projects they have carried out. 

You’ll have the opportunity to ask questions and discuss approaches.

Type of event

Network meeting – presentations with discussion and Q&A in a friendly and informal setting.  

This event will help you understand how you can best highlight your achievements in your annual report and help you understand where to start and how to structure your case studies.

Type of event

This is a small group session and will involve audience participation in break out room with discussion and tasks as well as a demonstration and presentation from the hosts.

Joining in with your camera on will be appreciated. 

This event will show you how to use the PowerPoint annual report template and will answer any questions you have adding your own content to the template. 

Type of event

This is a demonstration webinar, with plenty of time throughout for you to ask questions and we can demonstrate the answers of how to do things.

Who is this event for?

This event is for anyone involved in creating the annual report for their local Healthwatch.

Please note: our previous ‘Measuring Success’ workshop covered much of the content of this session. We therefore suggest you don’t book on this if you have attended that.

Few non-profit organisations don’t want to improve how they measure and then communicate their impact.

But what level of demonstrating impact can they realistically achieve? What do they want to prove – to whom – and what will convince them anyway?

Mike McClement will be running the course. Mike is a leading confidence coach in the UK and an international best-selling author. His book ‘Brilliant Self-Confidence’, published by Pearson Education, is available worldwide in a number of languages.

His practical techniques have proved that, whatever your situation, confidence really is a skill you can learn and his trusted formula for building self-confidence has helped thousands of people. Mike makes confidence building manageable, even for people who see the challenge as pretty well impossible.

NHS England is developing guidelines, to accompany the