Bean Research worked alongside the Coronation Food Project (CFP) partners to co-produce a comprehensive and practical impact framework aligned to the Project’s three strategic pillars:
- Saving more surplus food.
- Supercharging food distribution networks.
- Delivering a flexible funding programme to support the wider sector.
We collaborated closely with programme leads, delivery partners, and stakeholders to build a shared understanding of the Project’s vision and contributions. Our work focused on translating this vision into a grounded, measurable theory of change that reflects the scale and ambition of the Project, while remaining practical and proportionate to implement.
The resulting framework provides clarity on how outcomes across the three pillars can be meaningfully tracked and evidenced. We developed flexible indicators tailored to the wide range of activities being delivered, and supported partners in understanding how to adapt and refine these as the programme evolves.
Our role as independent facilitators helped align a diverse consortium of partners around a common approach to impact, fostering both clarity and ownership. The framework now serves as a practical tool for ongoing learning, accountability, and communication of the Project’s contribution to food system resilience and community wellbeing.
“Bean Research played an important expert facilitator role to bring together different delivery partners involved in the CFP and get us to a place of shared alignment and understanding of our contributions to the project. Bean then helped to put together a simple framework to capture the various components of the project, the outcomes those deliver and ways to evidence and measure those. This was all done in a participatory way and the Bean team have been incredibly patient in their support to achieve consensus on this all. The result is a much better shared understanding of each partner’s contribution to different project elements and a consistent way of measuring impact on different outcomes to back up high level impact stats with detailed evidence.”
Nikki Jeffery, Executive Director, King Charles III Charitable Fund
