Here’s the Final GOAL for this project 👇

**Together we will produce the first version of an open-source tool for smaller, volunteer-led community organisations that supports energy advisors and project managers to make their work easier.

It will enable them to efficiently serve clients, reduce fuel poverty and people's home energy carbon footprint, provide better quality advice (and thus produce better impact), and help the organisation to better meet funders' various needs.**

And if we aim for the following OUTPUTS we can get there 👇

• The CRM we develop tracks referrals to other organisations
• It has a low learning curve
• It reduces reporting inconsistencies
• By using it community energy groups will realise how to better improvement
• It’ll be based on research into existing products and how they serve different markets
• It will be more flexible, in a way that works that is easy to follow up
• It will be intuitive
• It will provide more consistent reporting and provide better energy saving advice in the community energy sector.
• It will be adaptable for different funders
• It will be easy to understand for everyone, and easy to follow irrespective of someone's experience
• It will serve the needs of groups that don't have anything at the moment

What is a Theory of Change?

At Outlandish we start every project with the whole team mapping out how the world will be better once the project is finished. This outcomes mapping process is often known as a “theory of change” – it’s a silly name, but it’s good to set a hypothesis for how you’re going to bring about the change you want.

It’s about outcomes mapping, really. It consists of a Final Goal, the Outputs/Outcomes that will bring it into being, and the tasks that the project team need to do to make those happen.

When did this happen?

At our project Kick Off on the 15 Feb 2024.

Who took part?

• Justin Bear (Plymouth Energy Community)