Photos courtesy of Hutton & Crow, Blake Ezra and JW3
JW3 is the first and only Jewish community centre in the UK. It envisions a vibrant, diverse, unified British-Jewish community, inspired by and engaged with Jewish arts, culture, learning and life. JW3 offers a diverse range of programmes and activities beyond the Jewish community, promoting interfaith dialogue, cultural diversity, and social inclusion.
Mobilise was appointed to help identify the impact JW3 delivers so that they can better tell their story and demonstrate impact to future funders.
The Project
To prepare for the next 10 years, JW3 embarked on the delivery of a significantly refreshed strategic approach. The goal was to increase the number of Jewish people engaged, strengthen the Jewish community, enable more to engage in social action and develop closer relationships with other communities. To deliver this step change and ensure a long term, sustainable financial future, JW3 is also seeking to grow all areas of income generation. Mobilise was appointed to help identify the impact JW3 delivers so that they can better tell their story and demonstrate impact to future funders.
Our Approach
Mobilise worked closely with JW3’s senior team to co-construct a Theory of Change and Monitoring and Evaluation framework. We built a broad understanding of the impacts JW3 is currently making and the impacts it seeks to make in the future. We compiled this information in a concise narrative describing JW3’s activities, strategy, key deliverables, and ambitions. We underpinned this with a significant body of work contained in a Theory of Change ‘log frame’ mapping all of JW3’s activity to its impacts and outcomes in a table format as well as a Monitoring and Evaluation Framework describing how JW3 can collect data to evidence these impacts.
Impact
This project enabled JW3 to clearly understand its impact, identify opportunities and challenges, and make informed decisions on how it can effectively celebrate and strengthen Jewish identity. It also helped them to articulate their understanding of how change happens and how their interventions or actions contribute to that change, thus serving as a communication tool to engage stakeholders and funders.