Beneficiaries of Impact

These are not exhaustive examples, but may help you broaden your thinking in the planning stages of your KEI projects and write your funding applications or report (using the language favoured by funders and assessors).

POSSIBLE BENEFICIARIES

Artists and practitioners
Arts, heritage, and culture
Heritage sites
Libraries and archives
Media professionals
Museums
Performing arts
Religious organisations
Specific communities or groups
Visitors, tourists
Wider public

POSSIBLE IMPACTS ON

Arts and heritage policy, governance and funding
Community cohesion or regeneration
Creative practice and expression amongst practitioners
Cultural life of a community, region or nation
Cultural understanding of issues and phenomena, shaping or informing public attitudes and values
Public engagement with cultural heritage and / or the arts
Influencing media discourse relating to research
Outreach and engagement of marginalised or under‑represented groups
Preservation, conservation and presentation of local, national, international cultural heritage
Processes of commemoration, memorialisation and reconciliation
Production of cultural artefacts e.g. films, novels, music, art
Public awareness, attitudes or understanding
Public discourse or debate
Public engagement with research
Quality of tourist or visitor experiences
The work of community organisations

POSSIBLE BENEFICIARIES

Advocacy groups or lobbyists
Citizens
Charitable organisations
Courts
EU or other European organisations
Intergovernmental organisations
Local / regional governments
Military
National governments
NGOs
Policy makers
Public Bodies
Quangos
Regulatory bodies
Specific communities or groups (UK or elsewhere)
Think tanks

POSSIBLE IMPACTS ON

Access to justice and other opportunities (including employment and education)
Capacity to fulfil treaty or reporting obligations
Decisions by a public service or regulatory authority
Ethical standards
Evidence based policy
Human development
Human rights
Humanitarian action and relief (including monitoring or evaluation of these)
International development
International guidelines or policy (governmental or otherwise)
Law enforcement
Legal and other frameworks
Legislative change, development of legal principle or effect on legal practice
National, regional or local guidelines or policy (governmental or otherwise)
Standards or contents of policy discussion and debate
Political and legislative processes
Public awareness, attitudes or understanding
Public participation in political and social processes
Public spending decisions
Security
Social welfare, equality and inclusion
Understanding of minority linguistic, ethnic, religious, immigrant, cultures and communities
Understanding of standards of wellbeing and human rights

POSSIBLE BENEFICIARIES

Commercial / industry organisations and their users or clients
Economies (local, regional, national, international)
Professional practitioners (individuals or bodies)
Public sector organisations and their users
Regulators

POSSIBLE IMPACTS ON

Access to finance
Access to public services
Corporate social responsibility
Development of new or modified standards or protocols
Development of alternative economic models (e.g. fair trade)
Development, trialling and delivery of new materials, products or technology
Development, trialling and delivery of new methodologies, frameworks or systems
Economic prosperity (any geographic level)
Enhanced organisational effectiveness and sustainability (any organisation)
Improved or enhanced customer /client/ audience experience
Institution of new businesses or other organisations
Inter‑organisational understanding, cooperation or effectiveness
Investment in research and development
Jobs and employment
Mitigation or reduction of potential harm
Performance or productivity (including reduction of costs/waste)
Quality of public services
Regeneration
Regulation or governance
Strategy, operations or management practices within any business or organisations
Take‑up or use of public services

POSSIBLE BENEFICIARIES

Health or medical regulators
NHS and its users
Other health systems or services and their users
Patients and related group

POSSIBLE IMPACTS ON

Access to or take‑up of healthcare services or related resources
Control and understanding of diseases
Costs within a health system or service
Decisions by a health service or regulatory authority
Development, trialling or delivery of new or modified clinical or lifestyle intervention
Development, trialling or delivery of new or modified diagnostic or clinical technology
Development, trialling or delivery of new or modified drug
Development, trialling or delivery of new or modified guidelines (including for e.g. training and ethical standards)
Experiences for patients or related groups
Improvements in quality of life or lifestyle
Indicators of health and well‑being
Outcomes for patients or related groups
Prevention of harm
Public awareness of a health risk or benefit
Public health and quality of life
Public understanding, attitudes or behaviour relating or health or wellbeing
Specific costs of an intervention

POSSIBLE BENEFICIARIES

Construction and related industries
Specific communities or groups
Conservationists and associated practitioners
Natural environments (including flora and fauna)
Specific communities or groups
Wider public

POSSIBLE IMPACTS ON

Built environments (buildings, cities, public spaces etc.)
Infrastructure
Planning
Sustainability
Transport
Natural environments
Animal health and welfare
Biodiversity
Conservation
Environmental policy
Environmental standards
Mitigating or reducing risks posed by natural hazards
Natural resources including energy, water and food
Public awareness or behaviours relevant to the environment
Understanding of environmental risks or hazards (including climate change and emissions)