We have just launched Housing Justice’s new Impact Tool, which will connect data for their Winter Night Shelters network – running over 90 much needed night shelter locations across the country. The tool is used in combination with others and enables trends to be identified so that policies and common issues can be targeted.

The Impact Tool is fully responsive, so it can be completed on mobile by the busy administrators and volunteers who coordinate the shelters. It also includes live calculations – those entering data must ensure that numbers within their categories of reporting match up with the total of guests on which they are reporting.

The data is collected anonymously and securely, and – as well as being able to be exported for deeper analysis – is delivered to an overview spreadsheet that performs automatic analysis in real-time.