{"id":16981,"date":"2025-10-27T10:50:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T10:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teamkinetic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16981"},"modified":"2025-10-27T13:12:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T13:12:37","slug":"measuring-the-impact-of-volunteers-a-practical-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teamkinetic.co.uk\/blog\/2025\/10\/measuring-the-impact-of-volunteers-a-practical-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Measuring the Impact of Volunteers: A Practical Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Volunteers bring so much to organisations. They strengthen communities, boost well-being, and often change lives. Including their own! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, capturing that impact can feel daunting. Especially when funders want neat numbers, but volunteers deserve recognition that goes deeper than statistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The good news? There isn\u2019t just one way to measure impact. At our 2025 Conference, we heard from Joanne Irvine and Will Watt. They’re two leading voices in this area who are approaching volunteer impact from slightly different angles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joanne’s work shows how involving volunteers in the process of collecting qualitative data can uncover stories that statistics alone can\u2019t capture. Whereas Will is well-experienced in turning the social and economic value of volunteering into hard data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By combining storytelling methods with economic evaluation, volunteer managers can build reports that tick boxes for stakeholders while showing the human side too. Here\u2019s how…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Go Beyond Hours Logged<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Traditional measures, like the number of hours given or the cost of replacing volunteers with paid staff, are a useful starting point. But they only capture one part of the picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n