# Directory of Social Change's year in numbers

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/01/17/directory-social-change039s-year-numbers/
- Published: 2004-01-17T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

The Directory of Social Change has listed the numbers behind its success in 2003.

We’re not quite sure how useful this is, but the Directory of Social Change has 
calculated totals for a range of activities it undertook last year. It is a fascinating(
or dull, depending on your view) list of actions taken and achievements made during
the year.

As well as taking 11,800 book orders

and despatching around 50,000 books, the organisation delivered training courses
to 2,546 delegates and attracted 2,836 delegates to conferences/events. As well 
as printing 87,000 brochures, DSC received 90,000 telephone calls, mailed 249,000
fliers, and sent 123,156 email newsletters to its 10,263 subscribers. It researched
4,000 different trusts, reached 1,174 paying subscribers to the Trustfunding Web
site, and secured 3,000 registrations to the freely available Government funding
Web site. (Sadly it claimed 600,000 “hits” to the latter, which is such a misleading
measure of Web site success as to be useless).

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DSC even knows that it served 10,800 lunches and 21,600 cups of tea and coffee to
delegates during the year.

Most importantly, this and the other activity detailed meant DSC helped 17,178 people
from 13,742 organisations. This work was done by approximately 40 people, one of
whom presumably had the unenviable task of amassing all this data.

 * **[Howard Lake speaking at DSC's Charityfair](https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/04/25/howard-lake-speaking-dsc039s-charityfair/)**(
   25 April 2004)
 * **[New editions of DSC's local trust directories](https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/04/26/new-editions-dsc039s-local-trust-directories/)**(
   26 April 2004)
 * **[Governmentfunding.org.uk bulletin board Q&A session today](https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/07/22/governmentfundingorguk-bulletin-board-qampa-session-today/)**(
   22 July 2004)