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Report page 1: Summary and overall score

The report opens with the overall score and its band. The score is the average of the eight Forces, with nothing added or taken away. Under it is a short Summary of what the evidence shows.

This page also carries a note about reading one person's view. A Self Audit is answered by one person, so the report says so up front.

The eight Forces on one page

Next you see all eight Force scores together, each with its band, so you can tell at a glance which Forces help and which hold income back.

Report page 3: A note for your finance director

This page is written for your finance director. It reads the eight Forces as drags on value. It describes value lost and never puts a pound figure on it. It's there because finance directors often control the budget for the changes fundraising needs.

Each Force in detail

Each Force gets its own section. You see its five sub-dimension scores and the evidence behind each one. Where a score is capped because the evidence is thin, it's drawn hollow, with the uncapped value marked. You can see what we found and what we couldn't find.

The compound loops

Some problems feed each other. Weak data can slow learning, and slow learning can keep data weak. This part of the report shows where Forces are making each other's problems worse in your charity.

The forty scores

All forty sub-dimension scores on one page, for anyone who wants the detail behind the Force scores.

How sure we are

This page lists every score where the evidence was thin. That might mean it came from one source, or it was inferred from something missing. Those scores are capped at plus or minus 10. We'd rather tell you where we're less sure than hide it.

The plan: Now, Next and Then

The plan sets out what to do in three phases. Now covers what to start straight away. Next covers what follows once that's under way. Then covers longer work. It's built from your own scores and evidence.

The rounding rule

The overall score can come out with decimals, because it's a mean of eight numbers. It's shown as a whole number, and this page explains the rule in full. The overall band is taken from the whole number you see, so the number and its label always agree.

The conclusion and next steps

The report closes with a short conclusion. The last page has a box about the Guided Audit. If you book one within 90 days of your report's release, the £495 you paid (before VAT) comes off.