The King’s Foundation sought to measure the impact of its work on the lives it transforms across its students, health and wellbeing recipients, partners, planners, artists and creators.  To capture the effects of its educational courses, health and wellbeing programmes, and placemaking and regeneration projects in the UK and overseas, which work to revitalise communities and historic assets.

Bean Research was commissioned to develop a framework designed to showcase and illustrate the positive differences the charity makes across its projects, programmes and locations. To assist in this endeavour, Bean has collaborated with the organisation to create a robust evaluation and impact assessment approach that effectively highlights the charity’s positive influence. The impact framework outlines the desired positive changes the charity aims to achieve and the outcomes it is committed to documenting in future years. The framework is structured around the charity’s three key themes: People, Planet, and Places.

This framework identifies the outcomes of The King’s Foundation’s direct impact on individuals—such as students in its educational programmes, local residents, and health and wellbeing participants—as well as on locations where the Foundation either directly manages projects or collaborates with local communities to foster a more sustainable approach to planning and regeneration.

Additionally, the framework acknowledges the crucial role The King’s Foundation plays in demonstrating knowledge through practice and promoting nature-led harmonious living and working, which ultimately enhances the wellbeing of the planet. These efforts are already helping the charity better understand and measure its impact on individuals, the locations it engages with, and its climate objectives, including the perspectives of students, partners, planners, artists, and creators.

Bean Research has played a pivotal role in communicating the positive impact of The King’s Foundation throughout the planet, exemplifying harmony in practice. For decades, The King’s Foundation has championed climate awareness and sustainability, advocating for a philosophy of harmony on a global scale. The new framework showcases projects that yield long-term benefits across people, places, and the planet, exemplifying harmony in action.

This effort has been integrated into various programmes and projects, creating a consistent approach to measuring impact with a new toolkit for best practice evaluation.  This has been captured in the organsiation’s first impact report, authored by Bean.