Voluntary Community sector membership is open to voluntary and not-for-profit organisations. You can choose from two different options, based on the requirements of your organisation during a membership year.
[You can otherwise opt for the Full Membership here].
Both VCSE membership options include the following:
- Free access to all CORC trainings - multiple places per organisation*
- Places at regional and national shared learning events, including CORC Forum*
- Access to online resources through the CORC website and members area, including e-learning modules and online training videos.
- Access to the CORC Best Practice Framework and self-assessment tool
- Access to CORC Comparators for commonly used outcome measures, allowing you to compare your own organisation’s data with the change reported by children and young people in the CORC dataset for each measure
- Direct support by phone and email - from the CORC team, including a named Regional Improvement Officer for your organisation, to address queries on routine outcome monitoring, evaluation, and evidence-led service improvement
- Participation in a learning collaboration, bringing you information about the latest academic advances, policy thinking and on the ground developments via CORC's website, monthly e-newsletter and events - providing you opportunity to engage with peers and advance practice.
*if required to keep numbers manageable, we may restrict numbers for some events
Option one: VCSE membership with data analysis
In addition to the above, option one includes data analysis support most relevant and beneficial to your organisation - working with relevant members of the CORC team:
- Reporting or data analysis support tailored to the needs of your service, such as Impact Analysis (analysing and reporting on your anonymised data), which could include considering change on measures between time points and how meaningful these changes are, comparing service data with comparator data held by CORC, breakdowns by demographics characteristics, or expert advice, guidance and coaching to support you in analysing your own data in-house and opportunities to benchmark against the CORC dataset
£2,000 (+VAT) for VCSE organisations
Option two: VCSE membership with service improvement support
In addition to the above, option two includes access to the CORC team to address the specific service improvement needs of your organisation - which could include:
- Advice about choosing, working with and understanding data from measures, or advice on analysing outcome data, and access to benchmarks for individual measures, based on the CORC dataset. On-site or virtual tailored support, drawing on CORC’s skills and expertise in research, informatics and practice teams in a wide range of areas associated with outcome-focused practice and using evidence. This could include team training; support with choosing and using outcome and feedback measures to strengthen practice and inform service development; improving data collection, collation and analysis; facilitated self-assessment, staff survey and improvement planning using the CORC Best Practice Framework; support on the interpretation, presentation or application of your data; facilitated discussions with funders, commissioners or partners around working with data in a meaningful way; a review of processes and systems; developing outcome frameworks.
£2,000 (+VAT) for VCSE organisations
Please get in touch to discuss which option would be most suitable for your organisation. You can arrange a free 20-30 minute conversation with one of our friendly CORC Regional Improvement Officers to discuss your organisation’s needs and how we can help, please just get in touch: corc@annafreud.org. No obligations, just an exploratory and informative opportunity to discuss.
CORC membership typically runs for one year with two membership windows available:
1 April to 31 March, and 1 September to 31 August. In order to accommodate the specific priorities or budgeting arrangements of organisations, extended or bespoke membership periods are available on request.
Annual full membership is available for publicly funded organisations at a cost of £3,000 (+VAT). Details about this option is available here.
Join us
You can join CORC as a Full Member, a VCSE Member, or utilise our services on a consultancy basis. You can also sign up to become part of the CORC network for free.
What works best for you?CORC members can request a copy of the Framework and bespoke implementation support free of charge or at a reduced rate depending on their level of membership.
We partner with you for service improvement or transformation projects, conduct evaluations, and collaborate to conduct research.
Take a look at some of these projects
A selection of case studies providing examples of work undertaken with organisations on specific service improvement or transformation projects, and the outcomes achieved.
Take a look here