London Early Years Foundation (LEYF)
London Early Years Foundation (LEYF) is a leading UK childcare social enterprise. LEYF has more than 340 staff across 24 community, workplace and Children’s Centre nurseries in six London boroughs, affecting the lives of more than 2,000 children every year. LEYF commissioned CAN to assist it in developing a social impact framework.
The innovative framework builds on LEYF and industry research to quantify not only LEYF’s ultimate impact on childhood development, but also the drivers behind this impact.
The objectives of the project were:
CAN provided LEYF with:
As a result of the project, LEYF has:
The result of this work was that LEYF could strengthen its reporting and back up anecdotal evidence of impact with data, proving to investors about how LEYF adds value. LEYF could also use this work to set targets for its future impact.