A shared passion and frustration

It was in South London in 2015 and 2016, during several catch-ups between Samuel, Ben, and James, that Eido Research and subsequently the Kingdom Impact Framework was formed.

Samuel, a master’s graduate in sociology, Ben, a professional statistician, and James, an international development expert, were all passionate about the amazing vision of Christian leaders and Christian organisations to impact and transform society.

However they also shared a frustration, that Christian organisations often lacked the strategy, evidence, and learning processes found in best-practice impactful organisations to turn this vision into impact.

This unfortunately meant that all too frequently Christian organisations weren’t able to maximise their positive impact, discover and eliminate areas of negative impact, or indeed maximise their funding potential.

With this shared passion and frustration, they decided to create their dream jobs, helping Christian organisations become impact, evidence and learning focused. It was on this premise (and over numerous follow-up coffees) that Eido was founded. During this time, James had the vision for a set of standardised tools to measure social and spiritual impact. Eido partnered with him to develop these, and were delighted when he set this up as its own offering.

They decided to create their dream jobs, helping Christian organisations become impact, evidence, and learning focused.

Since then Eido has grown to a team of five researchers, academics, and Christian organisation supporters. Through their shared passion, Eido has built impact strategies for over 100 faith-based organisations, analysed qualitative and quantitative data for over 500,000 respondents in multiple languages, and embedded a culture of measurement and learning into 11 organisations working across 5 continents.