Developing our impact in partnership with the Williamson Trust

Assessing the Learned Society of Wales’ impact and effectiveness is the aim of a new freelance impact practitioner, who will work on an ambitious programme of work for the Society over the next year.

Leon Quinn’s role at the LSW will be delivered in partnership with the Williamson Trust, a charity whose core mission is promoting healthy environments, healthy communities and healthy foods.

Leon will design and develop ways of monitoring, evaluating and demonstrating the Society’s impact across a range of areas, including a focus on how our impact aligns with the Williamson Trust’s ‘Healthy Planet, Healthy People’ agenda. “I’m very much looking forward to working with the LSW and the Williamson Trust on what has the potential to be a really ground-breaking collaboration,” Leon said.

As well as measuring our past and ongoing impact, he will also support the Society to make improvements in the future.

“We’re delighted to partner with the Learned Society of Wales on this opportunity. For us, impact is more than just whether aims are achieved or objectives are met. It includes transforming the environment, accessing healthy food and building healthy communities – something that we believe this project will help us to design into everything that we do.”

– Williamson Trust

“This is an exciting and fascinating opportunity,” said Dr Fiona Dakin, the Society’s Head of Public Policy.

“There is a real cross-over between the Williamson Trust’s focus on environmental and individual health and our core mission to support evidence-based policymaking, on key issues such as climate change, health, and the economy.

“This new role will allow us to measure how our work is inclusive and equitable in ways that ensure Wales’ communities benefit from what we do.”