You buy Owl Impact for a cohort. Your grantees get it free, and it does the assembling behind the return they already write for you. What reaches you: the same measures, in the same shape, from every organisation. Nobody adds anything up.
Over a hundred UK grantmakers have committed to light-touch reporting. The trade-off — ask for less, learn less — only exists because the grantee does the collecting, costing and adding up by hand. Take those jobs off them and it disappears.
The test we hold this to: would a grantee choose to keep using it after your funding ends?
No app store, no download, no manual. They tap what happened as it happens. Works offline.
Short training videos supplied as standard — watched once, there whenever a new team member starts. A training day for programme managers can be arranged if your cohort wants it.
Everything logged, filtered to your grant and period. Return day becomes ten minutes, not a weekend.
Hours costed by who gave them — general volunteer, skilled volunteer, pro bono professional — at rates agreed at setup.
Confidence, readiness, wellbeing — the shift, tracked anonymously by code.
Their records, their branding, their reports — usable for their next application and their other funders.
You are not being given a window into anyone's organisation. There is no live feed of a grantee's day, and there is nothing in the system that would allow one.
An hour of someone's time can be described three ways. They answer different questions, so they sit side by side on a report, each with its method shown.
What it cost to deliver. Hours your grant paid for, at actual salary. These belong in the investment line of a social return calculation — never in the return.
What was given beyond what anyone paid for — time nobody funded, contributed anyway. Costed at a recognised proxy, published with source and year.
What donated time would have cost to buy — what the organisation did not have to pay for, priced by who gave the time.
| Rate | Applies to | Source and year |
|---|---|---|
| £16.93 / hr | Social value proxy — time given beyond what was paid for | National TOMs 2022, ONS replacement-cost basis, 2021 prices |
| £12.71 / hr | General volunteer | National Living Wage, 21 and over, from 1 April 2026 |
| £19.67 / hr | Skilled volunteer | ONS ASHE April 2025 — median gross hourly pay excluding overtime, full-time |
| Actual salary | Paid staff on funded delivery | The organisation's own payroll — recorded as cost, not contribution |
| Their charge-out rate | Professional pro bono | The firm's own published price |
The Lundy Model (Lundy, 2007) asks for Space, Voice, Audience and Influence. Most reports can show the first two. Owl Impact gives the other two a place to be logged as dated entries — an Audience and Influence tag set configured for the cohort at setup — so the chain reads back: view, audience, decision, change.
No names, no dates of birth, no free text about a young person — outcomes sit against an anonymous code, and only the grantee's own team holds the key, offline. The only personal data in the system is the name and email of the people who log. UK GDPR — ICO registration C1941169.
What we scope is a programme: how many organisations, how long, what you need to show at the end. Tell us, and we put a firm number against it — a monitoring and evaluation line in the programme budget, carried by the grant, not by your grantees.
A 20-minute walkthrough of the live product with sample data — what your grantees would use, and what a portfolio view puts in front of your board. And a straight answer on whether your cohort is the right fit.