Ryan Miemczyk
@theimpactlab.co.uk
Accredited Researcher l Director of Research at Trust Impact l Chair at Manchester Young Lives & Trustee at the YMCA l Masters athlete for England.
I help charities measure the important stuff
https://linktr.ee/ryanmiemczyk
I help charities measure the important stuff
https://linktr.ee/ryanmiemczyk
Worth a quick read if you’re into your data or charity leader:
Blog: Making Sense of Change - How Small Charities Can Use IMD 2025 to Target and Tell Their Impact:
theimpactlab.co.uk/press/blogs/...
Blog: Making Sense of Change - How Small Charities Can Use IMD 2025 to Target and Tell Their Impact:
theimpactlab.co.uk/press/blogs/...
Making Sense of Change: How Small Charities Can Use IMD 2025 to Target and Tell Their Impact
A practical guide for small charities to use IMD 2025, compare with 2019, and target impact.
theimpactlab.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Worth a quick read if you’re into your data or charity leader:
Blog: Making Sense of Change - How Small Charities Can Use IMD 2025 to Target and Tell Their Impact:
theimpactlab.co.uk/press/blogs/...
Blog: Making Sense of Change - How Small Charities Can Use IMD 2025 to Target and Tell Their Impact:
theimpactlab.co.uk/press/blogs/...
Checked the postcode for Buckingham Palace on my new IMD2025.co.uk site
Apparently, the neighbours could use a little “levelling up.”
See how your area’s deprivation scores have changed between 2019 and 2025. 👑📉#IMD20252#DataForGoodo#LevellingUpU#UKDatat#OpenDatat#Mappingng
Apparently, the neighbours could use a little “levelling up.”
See how your area’s deprivation scores have changed between 2019 and 2025. 👑📉#IMD20252#DataForGoodo#LevellingUpU#UKDatat#OpenDatat#Mappingng
November 8, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Checked the postcode for Buckingham Palace on my new IMD2025.co.uk site
Apparently, the neighbours could use a little “levelling up.”
See how your area’s deprivation scores have changed between 2019 and 2025. 👑📉#IMD20252#DataForGoodo#LevellingUpU#UKDatat#OpenDatat#Mappingng
Apparently, the neighbours could use a little “levelling up.”
See how your area’s deprivation scores have changed between 2019 and 2025. 👑📉#IMD20252#DataForGoodo#LevellingUpU#UKDatat#OpenDatat#Mappingng
🇦🇺 A 14-year, 25k strong study found that hopeful adults had higher wellbeing, better health, stronger employment & faster recovery after shocks. 🌱
#Hope as measurable, predictive & essential for understanding #SocialImpact. 📈
#Wellbeing #Charity #Evaluation #Reporting #Impact
#Hope as measurable, predictive & essential for understanding #SocialImpact. 📈
#Wellbeing #Charity #Evaluation #Reporting #Impact
Hope and the Life Course: Results From a Longitudinal Study of 25,000 Adults
This paper reports the first large-scale longitudinal links between one of the least known dimensions of wellbeing—hope—and long-term outcomes in a range of life arenas. Hope has agentic properties w....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
🇦🇺 A 14-year, 25k strong study found that hopeful adults had higher wellbeing, better health, stronger employment & faster recovery after shocks. 🌱
#Hope as measurable, predictive & essential for understanding #SocialImpact. 📈
#Wellbeing #Charity #Evaluation #Reporting #Impact
#Hope as measurable, predictive & essential for understanding #SocialImpact. 📈
#Wellbeing #Charity #Evaluation #Reporting #Impact
🚨 Big change for UK charities! SORP 2026 makes impact reporting part of the Trustees’ Report. You’ll need to show who you reached, what changed, and how you know.
Get ready with our quick guide 👇
#SORP2026 #Charity #ImpactReporting
Get ready with our quick guide 👇
#SORP2026 #Charity #ImpactReporting
How the Charity SORP 2026 will reshape how UK charities report their work | The Impact Lab
For the first time, impact reporting will become a mandatory element of the Trustees’ Annual Report
theimpactlab.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
🚨 Big change for UK charities! SORP 2026 makes impact reporting part of the Trustees’ Report. You’ll need to show who you reached, what changed, and how you know.
Get ready with our quick guide 👇
#SORP2026 #Charity #ImpactReporting
Get ready with our quick guide 👇
#SORP2026 #Charity #ImpactReporting
After a long day of building, it’s live! 🎉
imd2025.co.uk gives you free tools to explore the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 — maps, lookups & insights for #researchers and small #charities tackling inequality.
#IMD2025 #SocialImpact #DataForGood
imd2025.co.uk gives you free tools to explore the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 — maps, lookups & insights for #researchers and small #charities tackling inequality.
#IMD2025 #SocialImpact #DataForGood
IMD 2025 Tools | The Impact Lab
IMD mapping and lookup tools for 2025 and 2019. Fast access to postcode and LSOA insights.
imd2025.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 8:58 PM
After a long day of building, it’s live! 🎉
imd2025.co.uk gives you free tools to explore the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 — maps, lookups & insights for #researchers and small #charities tackling inequality.
#IMD2025 #SocialImpact #DataForGood
imd2025.co.uk gives you free tools to explore the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 — maps, lookups & insights for #researchers and small #charities tackling inequality.
#IMD2025 #SocialImpact #DataForGood
English indices of deprivation 2025
Statistics on relative levels of deprivation in England
www.gov.uk
October 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
🧵 One of my favourite ideas: The Helsinki Bus Station Theory. It’s about creativity, originality, and the courage to stay on the bus — and it has everything to do with creating lasting social impact.
#SocialImpact #Creativity
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#SocialImpact #Creativity
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October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🧵 One of my favourite ideas: The Helsinki Bus Station Theory. It’s about creativity, originality, and the courage to stay on the bus — and it has everything to do with creating lasting social impact.
#SocialImpact #Creativity
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#SocialImpact #Creativity
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Question for the Researchers and Data folks:
Should companies be allowed to paywall ONS data (and not share the core results) despite access being granted on condition of 'benefiting the public?' 📊
Should companies be allowed to paywall ONS data (and not share the core results) despite access being granted on condition of 'benefiting the public?' 📊
October 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Question for the Researchers and Data folks:
Should companies be allowed to paywall ONS data (and not share the core results) despite access being granted on condition of 'benefiting the public?' 📊
Should companies be allowed to paywall ONS data (and not share the core results) despite access being granted on condition of 'benefiting the public?' 📊
Buzzing to be leading a couple of breakouts at The Future of Social Impact 🙌
⚡ How to design impact frameworks that actually get used
⚡ Data essentials for social impact
📅 Tues 18 Nov
🎟️ Tickets almost gone (<30 left)
👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future...
⚡ How to design impact frameworks that actually get used
⚡ Data essentials for social impact
📅 Tues 18 Nov
🎟️ Tickets almost gone (<30 left)
👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future...
The Future of Social Impact
Explore what it takes to create real impact. Join us for a day of honest talks, hands-on tools and bold ideas for meaningful change.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Buzzing to be leading a couple of breakouts at The Future of Social Impact 🙌
⚡ How to design impact frameworks that actually get used
⚡ Data essentials for social impact
📅 Tues 18 Nov
🎟️ Tickets almost gone (<30 left)
👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future...
⚡ How to design impact frameworks that actually get used
⚡ Data essentials for social impact
📅 Tues 18 Nov
🎟️ Tickets almost gone (<30 left)
👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future...
I’m speaking at the @dsc-charity.bsky.social #GrantsUnlocked2025 conference this Thursday 🎤🚀
I’ll be sharing how to measure & report impact in ways people actually care about.
Cool tools + practical tips for charities 🙌
👉 dsc.org.uk/event/grants-unlocked-2025
I’ll be sharing how to measure & report impact in ways people actually care about.
Cool tools + practical tips for charities 🙌
👉 dsc.org.uk/event/grants-unlocked-2025
Grants Unlocked 2025 - Online conference on Thursday 18 September 2025 - Directory of Social Change
Securing grants is more competitive than ever, with increasing demand for funding and shifting priorities from grant-makers. To succeed, charities must refine their approaches, tell compelling stories...
dsc.org.uk
September 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I’m speaking at the @dsc-charity.bsky.social #GrantsUnlocked2025 conference this Thursday 🎤🚀
I’ll be sharing how to measure & report impact in ways people actually care about.
Cool tools + practical tips for charities 🙌
👉 dsc.org.uk/event/grants-unlocked-2025
I’ll be sharing how to measure & report impact in ways people actually care about.
Cool tools + practical tips for charities 🙌
👉 dsc.org.uk/event/grants-unlocked-2025
I am speaking at the next @dsc-charity.bsky.social online conference on 'Measuring and Reporting Impact'.
I'm going to try and make it as practical as possible so people walk away with some actionable insights.
Pre-questions also welcome!
Details here: www.dsc.org.uk/event/grants...
I'm going to try and make it as practical as possible so people walk away with some actionable insights.
Pre-questions also welcome!
Details here: www.dsc.org.uk/event/grants...
Grants Unlocked 2025 - Online conference on Thursday 18 September 2025 - Directory of Social Change
Securing grants is more competitive than ever, with increasing demand for funding and shifting priorities from grant-makers. To succeed, charities must refine their approaches, tell compelling stories...
www.dsc.org.uk
August 29, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I am speaking at the next @dsc-charity.bsky.social online conference on 'Measuring and Reporting Impact'.
I'm going to try and make it as practical as possible so people walk away with some actionable insights.
Pre-questions also welcome!
Details here: www.dsc.org.uk/event/grants...
I'm going to try and make it as practical as possible so people walk away with some actionable insights.
Pre-questions also welcome!
Details here: www.dsc.org.uk/event/grants...
I’m currently looking for a panel member for a session I’m hosting at our conference on the 18th November.
I’m looking for an org that actively uses its impact framework as their North Star.
If you are or know someone, give me a shout!
I’m looking for an org that actively uses its impact framework as their North Star.
If you are or know someone, give me a shout!
August 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I’m currently looking for a panel member for a session I’m hosting at our conference on the 18th November.
I’m looking for an org that actively uses its impact framework as their North Star.
If you are or know someone, give me a shout!
I’m looking for an org that actively uses its impact framework as their North Star.
If you are or know someone, give me a shout!
👋 Charity friends 👋
One of the top GDPR questions I get is "Can we collect postcodes?"
The answer: sometimes ✅ sometimes ⚠️
And the risks are bigger than most people think (especially in rural areas)
One of the top GDPR questions I get is "Can we collect postcodes?"
The answer: sometimes ✅ sometimes ⚠️
And the risks are bigger than most people think (especially in rural areas)
August 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
👋 Charity friends 👋
One of the top GDPR questions I get is "Can we collect postcodes?"
The answer: sometimes ✅ sometimes ⚠️
And the risks are bigger than most people think (especially in rural areas)
One of the top GDPR questions I get is "Can we collect postcodes?"
The answer: sometimes ✅ sometimes ⚠️
And the risks are bigger than most people think (especially in rural areas)
🧵Impact Report Best Practices ⬇️
Just finished reading the latest @dofe.org Impact Report and their Technical Report, and wow, the level of transparency and rigour in their measurement framework is impressive. 📊👏
https://impctlab.uk/DoEImpactReport
https://impctlab.uk/DoETechnicalReport
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Just finished reading the latest @dofe.org Impact Report and their Technical Report, and wow, the level of transparency and rigour in their measurement framework is impressive. 📊👏
https://impctlab.uk/DoEImpactReport
https://impctlab.uk/DoETechnicalReport
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July 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
🧵Impact Report Best Practices ⬇️
Just finished reading the latest @dofe.org Impact Report and their Technical Report, and wow, the level of transparency and rigour in their measurement framework is impressive. 📊👏
https://impctlab.uk/DoEImpactReport
https://impctlab.uk/DoETechnicalReport
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Just finished reading the latest @dofe.org Impact Report and their Technical Report, and wow, the level of transparency and rigour in their measurement framework is impressive. 📊👏
https://impctlab.uk/DoEImpactReport
https://impctlab.uk/DoETechnicalReport
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🚨📊 The English #IndicesOfDeprivation2025 will be released in Oct/Nov this year.
This is huge! 🔥
#IMD underpins funding decisions, #research, #policy targeting, and #impact #measurement across England.
If you use #postcode #data, map #disadvantage, or care about place-based work, get ready. 🗺️
This is huge! 🔥
#IMD underpins funding decisions, #research, #policy targeting, and #impact #measurement across England.
If you use #postcode #data, map #disadvantage, or care about place-based work, get ready. 🗺️
July 18, 2025 at 10:10 PM
🚨📊 The English #IndicesOfDeprivation2025 will be released in Oct/Nov this year.
This is huge! 🔥
#IMD underpins funding decisions, #research, #policy targeting, and #impact #measurement across England.
If you use #postcode #data, map #disadvantage, or care about place-based work, get ready. 🗺️
This is huge! 🔥
#IMD underpins funding decisions, #research, #policy targeting, and #impact #measurement across England.
If you use #postcode #data, map #disadvantage, or care about place-based work, get ready. 🗺️
🧵 I was a panelist at the #Charity #AI #Conference yesterday, hosted by the @dsc-charity.bsky.social.
One recurring question: What’s the true environmental cost of all this AI? ⚡️
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One recurring question: What’s the true environmental cost of all this AI? ⚡️
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July 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
🧵 I was a panelist at the #Charity #AI #Conference yesterday, hosted by the @dsc-charity.bsky.social.
One recurring question: What’s the true environmental cost of all this AI? ⚡️
(1/7)
One recurring question: What’s the true environmental cost of all this AI? ⚡️
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🧠✨ I'm speaking at the #Charity #AI #Conference today, diving into what AI really means for the sector.
Not the hype. Not the doom but the real, messy, hopeful reality of what AI can actually do for charities.
✅ Faster reporting
✅ Smarter insights
⚠️ But also bias, bad data, and a big access gap
Not the hype. Not the doom but the real, messy, hopeful reality of what AI can actually do for charities.
✅ Faster reporting
✅ Smarter insights
⚠️ But also bias, bad data, and a big access gap
The Charity AI Conference - Online conference on Thursday 17 July - Directory of Social Change
Online booking is now closed. But you can still contact our friendly Customer Services team by 17.00 today, Tuesday 16 July, to book your space. Email cs@dsc.org.uk or ring 020 4526 5995. Artificial I...
www.dsc.org.uk
July 17, 2025 at 7:16 AM
🧠✨ I'm speaking at the #Charity #AI #Conference today, diving into what AI really means for the sector.
Not the hype. Not the doom but the real, messy, hopeful reality of what AI can actually do for charities.
✅ Faster reporting
✅ Smarter insights
⚠️ But also bias, bad data, and a big access gap
Not the hype. Not the doom but the real, messy, hopeful reality of what AI can actually do for charities.
✅ Faster reporting
✅ Smarter insights
⚠️ But also bias, bad data, and a big access gap
🧵Is #Bluesky dead? ☠️ 🧵
Not technically but something’s shifted. The early energy, ideas, curiosity seem to have faded. Let’s talk about it 👇
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Not technically but something’s shifted. The early energy, ideas, curiosity seem to have faded. Let’s talk about it 👇
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July 15, 2025 at 8:42 AM
🧵Is #Bluesky dead? ☠️ 🧵
Not technically but something’s shifted. The early energy, ideas, curiosity seem to have faded. Let’s talk about it 👇
(1/6)
Not technically but something’s shifted. The early energy, ideas, curiosity seem to have faded. Let’s talk about it 👇
(1/6)
🧵Why are researchers complaining about the Labour Force Survey (LFS)?
Because it's (currently) not doing what it's meant to do: reliably tell us what’s going on in the UK labour market. A quick breakdown ⬇️
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Because it's (currently) not doing what it's meant to do: reliably tell us what’s going on in the UK labour market. A quick breakdown ⬇️
(1/8)
July 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
🧵Why are researchers complaining about the Labour Force Survey (LFS)?
Because it's (currently) not doing what it's meant to do: reliably tell us what’s going on in the UK labour market. A quick breakdown ⬇️
(1/8)
Because it's (currently) not doing what it's meant to do: reliably tell us what’s going on in the UK labour market. A quick breakdown ⬇️
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The tails and nails of #impact measurement:
A blog on what gets measured gets managed:
www.linkedin.com/posts/trust-...
A blog on what gets measured gets managed:
www.linkedin.com/posts/trust-...
In his latest article, Ryan Miemczyk, Director of Research & Innovation at Trust Impact, explores a powerful but often overlooked truth: 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲… | Trust Impact
In his latest article, Ryan Miemczyk, Director of Research & Innovation at Trust Impact, explores a powerful but often overlooked truth: 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐤 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 ...
www.linkedin.com
July 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The tails and nails of #impact measurement:
A blog on what gets measured gets managed:
www.linkedin.com/posts/trust-...
A blog on what gets measured gets managed:
www.linkedin.com/posts/trust-...
July 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
🧵 Should your charity use Free School Meals as a proxy for deprivation? 🧵
A lot of charities use FSM eligibility to reassure themselves they’re reaching people in need. On paper it works. But in practice, it’s a blunt tool and it might be misleading your analysis. 🧩 (1/8)
A lot of charities use FSM eligibility to reassure themselves they’re reaching people in need. On paper it works. But in practice, it’s a blunt tool and it might be misleading your analysis. 🧩 (1/8)
July 5, 2025 at 11:31 AM
🧵 Should your charity use Free School Meals as a proxy for deprivation? 🧵
A lot of charities use FSM eligibility to reassure themselves they’re reaching people in need. On paper it works. But in practice, it’s a blunt tool and it might be misleading your analysis. 🧩 (1/8)
A lot of charities use FSM eligibility to reassure themselves they’re reaching people in need. On paper it works. But in practice, it’s a blunt tool and it might be misleading your analysis. 🧩 (1/8)
The cycle of corporate volunteering:
🔁 Arrive
🎨 Paint a wall
⏭️ Leave
🔁 Next group strips the paint
🎨 Repaints
Meanwhile, the charity handles safeguarding, logistics, and admin.
Isn’t it time we built support around need, not novelty? (1/5)
🔁 Arrive
🎨 Paint a wall
⏭️ Leave
🔁 Next group strips the paint
🎨 Repaints
Meanwhile, the charity handles safeguarding, logistics, and admin.
Isn’t it time we built support around need, not novelty? (1/5)
July 3, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The cycle of corporate volunteering:
🔁 Arrive
🎨 Paint a wall
⏭️ Leave
🔁 Next group strips the paint
🎨 Repaints
Meanwhile, the charity handles safeguarding, logistics, and admin.
Isn’t it time we built support around need, not novelty? (1/5)
🔁 Arrive
🎨 Paint a wall
⏭️ Leave
🔁 Next group strips the paint
🎨 Repaints
Meanwhile, the charity handles safeguarding, logistics, and admin.
Isn’t it time we built support around need, not novelty? (1/5)
An excellent post from Heidi Fisher MBE on why #SocialValue isn’t working the way it should:
www.linkedin.com/posts/heidil...
www.linkedin.com/posts/heidil...
I’m breaking up with social value. | Heidi Fisher MBE
I’m breaking up with social value. 💔
It’s become an unwieldy beast – and I can’t ignore it any longer.
Social value now stands for everything wrong with the system:
Expecting something for nothing.
...
www.linkedin.com
June 28, 2025 at 6:24 AM
An excellent post from Heidi Fisher MBE on why #SocialValue isn’t working the way it should:
www.linkedin.com/posts/heidil...
www.linkedin.com/posts/heidil...
Interestingly enough, the example of social value washing that I mention in the below thread has been quietly unlinked from the charity's main page...
So, I’ve never been a fan of Social Return on Investment (SROI) reports. They often feel like a tool for justification rather than a true measure of impact. Below is a real-life example that highlights why. Let’s talk about SROI and why it can be misleading. 🧵👇
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June 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Interestingly enough, the example of social value washing that I mention in the below thread has been quietly unlinked from the charity's main page...