Impact Report 2023-2025
Our Theory of Change
Our Theory of Change starts with a simple belief: when Black and Global Majority changemakers get the right support at the right stage, they build organisations that transform communities. Discover the five-level system behind DiNN's programmes, and the data proving it works.
Introduction
Across the UK, Black and Global Majority-led organisations face systemic barriers that limit their growth and impact. They have brilliant ideas, deep community connections, and lived experience of the issues they seek to solve. Yet they are consistently underfunded, overlooked, and excluded from the networks and opportunities that would enable them to scale.
The result is a sector where potential goes unrealised, and communities miss out on the solutions they deserve.
When Black and Global Majority changemakers have access to the right learning, networks, and support at the right stage of their journey, they build stronger organisations that transform their communities.
Our Three Core Outcomes
Through every programme we deliver is designed to drive progress across three interconnected outcomes:
Access to Learning: Members gain skills in entrepreneurship, finance, and growth.
Organisational Capacity: Members build the systems, confidence, and resilience to scale.
Networks and Visibility: Members connect with peers, mentors, and funders who open doors.
These outcomes work together; a member who learns new skills is better equipped to strengthen their organisation, which in turn makes them more visible to funders and partners.
DiNN’s Level System
Level 1: Starting Up Starting Out
Who we support: Idea stage, no formal structure yet.
Key outcome focus: Increased access to learning and business registration.
Level 2: Build Hustle Grow
Who we support: Early stage; first 1–2 years of operation.
Key outcome focus: Strengthened organisational capacity; financial management.
Level 3: Innovate Now
Who we support: Established, track record and some revenue.
Key outcome focus: Sustainable income streams; partnership development.
Level 4: Make it Big
Who we support: Growth; ready to scale impact.
Key outcome focus: Investment readiness; strategic growth.
Level 5: Big Business
Who we support: Mature; significant reach and experience.
Key outcome focus: Systems change; leadership influence.
This approach ensures that every member receives the right support at the right time, whether that is foundational training, one-to-one mentoring, or strategic growth funding.
How We Track and Deliver Impact
Each level is supported by programmes tailored to the specific needs of members at that stage:
Levels 1–2 (starting Up Starting Out, Build Hustle Grow):
Focus on foundational skills, business planning, market research, financial literacy, and building confidence. Programmes run over 4–6 months, combining cohort training with 1-2-1 support and culminating in a demo day.
Levels 3–5 (Innovate Now, Make it Big, Big Business):
Focus on scaling, strategic planning, leadership development, investment readiness, and market growth. Programmes run over 4–6 months with intensive cohort sessions, expert office hours, and tailored funding support.
Across all levels, participants gain continued access to the DiNN community through Inspired Network, Mindful Coworking, Virtual Vibes, and Alumni Dinners, ensuring support extends beyond the programme.
How We Measure What Matters
We do not just deliver programmes; we rigorously track whether they work. Our Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) framework translates our Theory of Change into measurable indicators, captured through pre- and post-programme surveys completed by every participant.
Confidence & skills: Pre/post surveys (scaled questions), show growth in members' belief in their own abilities.
Access to learning: Number of training sessions attended; tracks engagement with new knowledge.
Organisational capacity & systems: (governance, finance, HR, operations); Baseline and post‑capacity building health checks (scored 0–4), identify gaps, track institutional strengthening, and show progression across levels.
Networks & visibility: New connections, introductions, partnerships; demonstrates increased access to opportunity.
Organisational strength: Income growth, grant success, and sustainability – Captures real‑world progress.
What the Data Tells Us
When we look across all our programmes and levels, consistent patterns emerge:
Members gain confidence – Pre- and post-comparisons show measurable increases in entrepreneurial skills and self-belief.
Networks grow – Participants report new connections that lead to funding, partnerships, and collaborations.
Organisations strengthen – Grantees demonstrate increased income, improved systems, and greater sustainability.
These patterns are evidence that our Theory of Change works.
Why This Matters
For our members, this framework ensures that the support they receive is relevant, timely, and impactful. For our funders and partners, it provides transparency and accountability, showing that investment in DiNN delivers real, measurable change.
And for us at Do it Now Now, it keeps us focused on what matters most: empowering Black and Global Majority changemakers to build the future they deserve.
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Community at a Glance
In 2025, our community grew to 2,450 members across the UK, with Black and Global Majority-led organisations at the heart of everything we do. From £2.65 million in grants disbursed to leadership confidence nearly doubling, see the data behind our growing impact.
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Theory of Change
Our Theory of Change starts with a simple belief: when Black and Global Majority changemakers get the right support at the right stage, they build organisations that transform communities. Discover the five-level system behind DiNN's programmes, and the data proving it works.
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How Do it Now Now Keeps Lived Experience at the Centre
Our legitimacy doesn't come from good intentions alone. Meet the Community Advisory Board members, entrepreneurs, therapists, strategists, and alumni, who shape how Do it Now Now governs, decides, and stays accountable to the communities we serve.
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How We Design Learning That Moves Founders From Intention To Action
Discover ASAP: our four-stage framework moving Black and Global Majority founders from Awareness through to Personalisation, helping intention become action.
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Online Community and Alumni Support: Beyond the Programme
The end of a programme doesn't have to be a cliff edge. From lifetime access to training libraries to alumni dinners and peer-led workshops, discover how Do it Now Now keeps its community connected, learning, and growing long after the final session.
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From Seed to Scale: What Five Founder Journeys Teach Us About Building Sustainable Social Enterprises
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From Fragility to Resilience: What Our Health Checks Reveal
Every organisation we work with completes a developmental Health Check, first at baseline, then months later. Across 64 organisations in our Innovate Now programme, scores rose with significant gains in governance, finance, and community impact.
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The Evidence for Impact: How DiNN Programmes Turn Learning into Outcomes
A strong programme leaves people encouraged and equipped to act. See the data behind DiNN's outcomes, tracking how confidence, partnerships, and funding shift for participants in the months after they complete a programme.
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Why The Journey Does Not End When a Programme Finishes
Support rarely arrives as one clean intervention. It's a Health Check here, a grant there, a mentoring session somewhere else. Meet Carib Eats, MEM Academy, and Youth League UK, three founders whose journeys show what happens when support becomes a connected pathway instead.
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Partnering to Build Better Pathways to Black and Global Majority-Led Change
Funders like City Bridge Foundation, Wellcome Trust, and Esmee Fairbairn Foundation partner with DiNN because reaching Black and Global Majority-led organisations well takes more than money, it takes lived experience, care, and evidence-based design.
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How We Are Solving the Gaps That Stop Black and Global Majority-Led Organisations from Growing
Black and Global Majority-led organisations aren't short on talent or community trust. What's missing is infrastructure: the funding pathways, investment readiness, and civic support that turn good work into lasting impact. Here's where those gaps are, and how DiNN is built to close them.
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List of Grantees
From grassroots youth groups to climate initiatives, arts collectives to health-focused CICs, see the full list of Black and Global Majority-led organisations we've supported since 2023, a snapshot of the ecosystem we're helping to build.
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