Skip over main navigation
  • Log in
  • Basket: (0 items)
Inspire Alpine

Follow Your Dreams

Donate
  • Twitter
Menu
  • About us
    • Why we exist
    • Vision and mission
    • Our social impact
    • Case studies
    • Caring for Planet Earth
    • Our team
    • Our charitable purpose
    • Media coverage
    • Contact us
  • Be inspired
    • Inspirational talks & webinars
    • UK mountain adventures
    • Overseas adventures
    • Outdoor skills courses
    • Virtual challenges
  • Find your adventure
    • Charity groups
    • Corporate groups
    • Individual Adventures
      • UK adventures
      • Overseas adventures
  • How to help
    • Donate
    • Fundraise
      • Fundraise for us
      • Fundraise for free!
      • Fundraisers
    • Volunteer for us
    • Join our movement
    • Trusts and funds
    • Partnerships
    • Supporter promise
    • Appeals
      • Minibus Appeal
      • Free Talks Appeal
      • COVID-19 Free Zoom Talks Appeal
  • News
  • Shop
  • Admin
    • Log in
  • Basket: (0 items)
  • Our Social Impact
  1. About us
  2. Why we exist

Our Social Impact

We help transform disadvantaged young peoples' lives! Find our more about our social impact and the positive outcomes we've planned by delivering our life-changing talks and experiental outdoor learning activities.

Planned Outcomes

What happens as a direct result of our activities…

The longer-term benefits we aim to achieve…

The ‘big-picture’ changes we hope will happen…

1. INSPIRATIONAL TALKS

Young people enjoy the talk and are inspired.

Their mind-set is changed, and their aspirations are raised

They set new achievement goals for themselves

They improve their attitude and motivation

They apply themselves more to their studies in school, there is an improvement in their attendance records and in their timekeeping

2. PURPOSEFUL OUTDOOR ADVENTURES

Young people feel supported to step outside their comfort zone to share new experiences, learn new skills and work together as teams in a natural setting, and they become more confident & resilient

They are more confident, emotionally balanced and are resilient in the face of difficulties

Resilience - they demonstrate:

  • improved resilience, grit and determination (including the persistence to succeed)
  • more capacity to cope with difficulties and stress
  • reduced stress

They have a sense of purpose & engage in meaningful and fulfilling activity

Drive & Enthusiasm - they demonstrate:

  • they become more proactive and determined to succeed
  • increased positive energy and decreased feelings of being tired / worn-out

They have increased aspirations for the future

Increased aspirations and feelings about the future and demonstrate:

  • life goals
  • more positive feelings about the future
  • greater ambition

They become better at working with others and learn to take personal responsibility for their role in team tasks.

 

They become better at planning and setting goals helping them to:

  • solve their own problems
  • work methodically towards their goals and aspirations
  • step up and take a lead role
  • put forward their own ideas in a team setting

They develop strong relationships with their peers and adult supervisors.

They develop their social and communication skills helping them to:

  • improve their relationships and social engagement
  • feel more connected to their peers and to adults
  • feel more connected to the natural environment & more committed to acting responsibly in natural settings

3. WORK EXPERIENCE PROGRAMME

Young people have a unique opportunity to spend time gaining hands-on work experience in a dynamic social business

They learn about work within the outdoor sector and gain new skills

They gain confidence and improve their communication skills. The experience helps them to build their C.V.

Measuring our impact

We're building a sustainable social impact measurement framework. We've collected an abundance of anecdotal evidence of positive outcomes through feedback received:

  • Emails received from school pupils, teachers and parents immediately following a talk
  • Reviews & comments made on our Facebook & Twitter pages
  • Recommendations from talks given to corporate clients on LinkedIn.
  • Reviews on Trustpilot

In compiling a series of Case Studies, we've also undertaken to directly engage with the parents of young people that have attended an event by asking the parent to complete a short questionnaire aimed at documenting how (from a parent’s perspective) the intervention had influenced the child and their behaviour as a result.

Facebook LinkedIn Trustpilot

How we will measure our impact in the future

We'll seek to continuously improve our approach to measuring our social impact. The following methodologies are currently being developed for use in our Year 2 programme of work:

Inspirational talks

A real-time touch-button feedback terminal will be used to capture young people’s perceptions at the exact time and point of their experience at our talks, as they enter and then leave the hall/theatre. The question on entry might be ‘How inspired are you feeling today?’ and on exit ‘How inspired are you feeling following Ricky’s talk?’.

Sampling will be undertaken in the form of a before and after online questionnaire survey issued to 5-10% of pupils attending each talk.

Structured feedback will be sought from teachers and parents 6 weeks and then 6 months following a pupil’s attendance at a talk.

The continued identification of ‘Inspirational Case Studies’ that serve to highlight the experiences of pupils for whom our interventions have proved to be truly impactful.

Purposeful Outdoor Experiences

Each young person will be required to complete a Mental Toughness Scale for Adolescents (MTS-A) pre- and post-activity. The MTSA is an 18-item scale developed to measure the attributes of commitment, challenge, control (life), control (emotions), confidence (abilities) and confidence (interpersonal). The scale consists of positively and negatively worded statements and takes approximately 10 minutes to complete.

Each young person will be required to complete a Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) survey pre- and post-activity. The SWLS is a short 5-item instrument designed to measure global cognitive judgments of satisfaction with one's life. The scale usually takes only a minute to complete.

Taken together, these will allow us to measure changes in young people against key outcomes identified in our Outcomes Pathway:

  • Confidence and self-belief
  • Perseverance and resilience
  • Personal development and teamwork
  • Planning and goal setting
  • Social and communication skills
  • Connectedness with others and with the natural environment

The survey work undertaken with the course participants will be supplemented with sampling undertaken with parents and teachers both 6 months and a year following the course.

We will constantly refine our services based on feedback received, and we will continually improve our ability to measuring the social impact of our programme. 

Published: 1st May, 2020

Author: Ricky Munday

Share this page
  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Latest

  • Lake District 24 Peaks Challenge

    Lake District 24 Peaks Challenge

    Immerse yourself in England's finest mountain scenery on this two-day challenge that combines 24 peaks, 52 kilometres & 3,600 metres of ascent, including the summits of mighty Scafell Pike & legendary Helvellyn.

  • Snowdon Sunset Ascent

    Snowdon Sunset Ascent

    Climb to the summit of majestic Snowdon at dusk. Witness a stunning sunset from Wales’ highest mountain over the Irish Sea & across Snowdonia, with epic views of mountains and coast. This is an unforgettable bucket list guided adventure, led by our experienced local mountain leaders.

  • Welsh 3000s private event 18 & 19 June 2022

    Welsh 3000s private event 18 & 19 June 2022

    The Welsh 3000s Challenge is the ultimate 24-hour mountain challenging, ascending all of Wales' 15 peaks over 3,000ft, with over 4,200 metres of ascent across 46 brutal kilometres!

  • Ben Nevis Sunrise Ascent

    Ben Nevis Sunrise Ascent

    Soaring to 1,345m above sea level, Ben Nevis has the distinction of being the highest mountain in the UK, and this famous peak attracts 125,000 walkers a year. Whether you're a keen rambler or you just love incredible landscapes, bagging 'the Ben' at sunrise should be near the top of your Scottish bucket list.

Most read

  • Fundraise for free!

    Fundraise for free!

    Raising funds for Inspire Alpine® doesn’t have to cost you time or money. There's a fantastic free way you can help us by simply shopping online!

  • Our Social Impact

    Our Social Impact

    We help transform disadvantaged young peoples' lives! Find our more about our social impact and the positive outcomes we've planned by delivering our life-changing talks and experiental outdoor learning activities.

  • Trusts and funds

    Trusts and funds

    We welcome support from charitable trusts, funds, foundations and other grant-making bodies. We have a strong track record of delivering transformational projects that raise aspirations and build confidence & resilience in disadvantaged young people, to help close the attainment gap.

  • Vision and mission

    Vision and mission

  • Volunteer for us

    Volunteer for us

    Help us transform disavdvantaged young people's lives by volunteering your time!

  • Why we exist

    Why we exist

    At Inspire Alpine® we dream of a world where all young people have the opportunity to succeed. Yet, there is clear evidence of a persistent gap in attainment between young people from the richest and poorest backgrounds, which has a direct impact on school-leaver destinations and future income levels. We exist to help close this attainment gap.

  • Social Enterprise

    Social Enterprise

    We are a social enterprise - a business with a social mission! We exist to help close the attainment gap faced by disadvantaged young people. Here we explain more about what being a social enterprise means.

  • Ben Lawers 7 Munro Challenge

    Ben Lawers 7 Munro Challenge

    Challenge yourself to climb 7 Munros in a day! Ben Lawers is the 10th highest mountain in the UK and the highest in the Southern Highlands, and sits at the centre of a chain of 7 Munros which fit walkers can achieve in one long day.

  • Striding Edge - Helvellyn

    Striding Edge - Helvellyn

    Striding Edge is a classic Grade 1 scramble in the Lake District - and if you’re looking to make your first foray into scrambling territory then it’s the perfect place to start as it offers all the thrill of a classic scramble, but little in the way of technical challenge.

  • Yorkshire Three Peaks - Food & Water

Tag cloud

Asia EBC Virtual treks Everest Base Camp Kilimanjaro
Free inspirational talks to schools in deprived areas

Free inspirational talks to schools in deprived areas

We're seeking your support to deliver a series of 40 free inspirational talks schools in the most deprived areas to raise disadvantaged young people's aspirations to help close the attainment gap. Read more

Donate Fundraise

Published: 27th February, 2020

Updated: 4th April, 2020

Author: Ricky Munday

Latest tweet

Sign up for our newsletter

Thank you & welcome!

You have successfully signed up for our newslettter.

.

Find us

Registered Office
Wrexham Enterprise Hub
11-13 Rhosddu Road
Wrexham
LL11 1AT

+44 (0)7867 143657
[email protected]

Links

  • Sitemap
  • Accessibility
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Privacy Policy

Follow us

Follow @inspirealpine

Follow Your Dreams!

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Youtube
  • Instagram
         
Inspire Alpine® is a certified social enterprise and company limited by shares registered in England and Wales under number 11470184 and a member of Social Enterprise UK
Customer service software
Trustpilot