Chairperson and Chief Executive Officer's Report

Shirley Southgate

Chairperson

Joanna Fletcher

Chief Executive Officer

Building on the past

We are very pleased to be reporting to you on our impact, in line with the new strategy we introduced at the beginning of this financial year.

For over 15 years now, we have focused on “issues arising from relationship breakdown and violence against women” and on providing an active casework/legal representation service. In 2011, we made a significant shift to recognising overall social impact as the true measure of our success – focussing on outcomes rather than activities or outputs.

Strategic developments

Our 2016 strategy affirms these past decisions and builds on them by being based directly on our theory of change which itself recognises that the foundation of our capacity to create change is the depth and breadth of our coal-face legal work.

A theory of change is a method for planning and evaluating social change in which long term goals are identified and then mapped backwards to identify necessary preconditions.

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