Thursday, 25 October 2007

I spent today in Cambridge attending a training event on social accounting. This is interesting stuff and of course it is important to demonstrate outcomes and impact. But I don't think funders will take too much interest until we can credibly put a sterling value on our impact and lots of work is still needed to develop properly credible models to measure social returns on investment.

Recent reading

In the evening, I finished reading Charles Nicholl’s fascinating book The Reckoning on the murder of Chrisopher Marlowe. Before this I had re-read H Rider Haggard’s book Allan Quatermain. Now I have started David Edwards’s history Christian England. My edition says it is part one: its story to the reformation but I am not sure that part two was ever published.