Sometimes referred to as pressure, in the social investment process these terms might be used to describe testing a financial model to determine how a business might react under pressure or a worst-case scenario. So, what would happen to your profit and loss or cash flow numbers, or the financial model for your organisation in under less-than-ideal circumstances?

As a concept, additionality is about understanding the extent to which something happens as a result of an intervention, and what would have happened without that intervention. It enables us to understand how adding something new or different has resulted in a particular impact or created additionality.

A rule which prevents the residual assets of the society being distributed to members. If a society has an asset lock, its rules will usually specify what must happen to these residual assets; normally they are transferred to another asset-locked body with similar aims and objectives to the society that is being wound up.

An asset lock which is baked by legislation (statute); once in place it cannot be removed even with the consent of members. It is possible to include an asset lock rule in any type of society, although only a statutory asset lock in a ‘community benefit society’ is absolutely watertight. Charities and ‘community interest companies’ also have statutory asset locks

Quantitative data is any type of data that can be represented by numbers. This type of data tends to be-numbers based, countable or measurable; mostly important it is quantifiable.