Community Investment Report Kit: Template and Example

This kit is for the person who writes the community section of a CSR report. It helps every figure say exactly what it can support. It has three parts:

1. A template you can copy into your own document, one section at a time.
2. A field dictionary that defines each field and places it in the Business for Societal Impact (B4SI) framework. It says where each number comes from, which period and denominator it needs, and what it cannot claim.
3. A worked example, filled in with TEEI’s own public figures, so you can see the template with real, checkable numbers in it.

The reasoning behind each section is in our guide, How to write the community section of a CSR report. The framework terms come from the public B4SI Sample Guidance Manual (2025).¹

Part 1: The template

Copy the outline below into your report draft. Then add each figure’s definition, B4SI level, claim level, source, period, denominator and limitation from the field dictionary in Part 2. Explain any empty field: an empty field with a reason is more useful to a reader than a missing one.

COMMUNITY SECTION: [company name], [reporting period]

1. SCOPE AND APPROACH
   Programmes and partners in scope: [list]
   Excluded from this section:        [list, and where they are reported instead]
   Reporting period:                  [start date] to [end date]
   Frameworks and versions:           [e.g. B4SI Sample Guidance Manual 2025; GRI 413: Local Communities 2016]
   Verification statement:            [who verified which figures, and how; "not independently assured" if so]

2. INPUTS (B4SI: what's contributed)
   Verified delivery hours:           [value]  source: [partner record]   period: [ ]  limitation: [ ]
   Preparation and coordination hours:[value]  source: [company record]   period: [ ]  limitation: [ ]
   Hours given in employees' own time:[value]  source: [ ]                period: [ ]  limitation: [ ]
   Time contribution (cost):          [value]  source: [company payroll]  method: [how cost per hour was set]
   Cash and in-kind contributions:    [value]  source: [company accounts] period: [ ]

3. OUTPUTS (B4SI: what happens)
   Sessions completed:                [value]  unit: [one-to-one / group]  source: [ ]  period: [ ]
   Sessions awaiting evidence:        [value]  (excluded from the hours above)
   Group sessions and participant hours: [value]  unit: [participant hours]  reported separately
   People directly reached:           [value]  unit: [people / attendances]  source: [ ]
   Countries:                         [value]  basis: [residence / delivery]  source: [ ]
   Employees involved:                [value]  unit: [unique people]  source: [ ]

4. IMPACT ON PEOPLE REACHED (B4SI: what changes)
   Indicator:                         [ ]
   Depth of impact:                   [connect / improve / transform]
   Method:                            [self-report / test / observed result]
   Denominator and coverage:          [N asked, M answered, period]
   Value:                             [ ]

5. EMPLOYEE AND BUSINESS IMPACTS (company data)
   Indicator:                         [ ]
   Method, respondents, date:         [ ]
   Value:                             [ ]

6. METHOD AND LIMITATIONS
   [One line per limitation, copied from the fields above]
   [Links to each partner's published method]

Part 2: The field dictionary

The “claim level” column uses the five levels from the guide: direct measure, supporting evidence, partial mapping, company data and not allowed.

The definition of time contribution (cost) is quoted from the B4SI Sample Guidance Manual (2025).¹

Part 3: A worked example

Example built from TEEI’s programme-wide data, not a company’s employee activity. It covers TEEI’s one-to-one conversation programmes as a whole. The figures come from TEEI’s published impact snapshot pub-2026-09-18T13-04Z-337ca44e (open the snapshot), observed on 18 September 2026 at 13:04 UTC. Where a figure has an earlier verification date or a different counting scope, the table says so. The live counter keeps moving, so a later reading will differ.

1. Scope and approach

• Programmes in scope: TEEI Language and TEEI Mentorship, one-to-one video sessions. The counter does not separate the two programmes.
• Excluded: other TEEI programmes, and group conversation clubs, which are reported on their own line below.
• Reporting period: all time, from 22 April 2022, with a second reading for the 30 days before 18 September 2026.
• Frameworks: B4SI Sample Guidance Manual (2025), public edition.¹
• Verification statement: figures are verified by TEEI from its own session records and published method. They are not independently assured.

2. Inputs

On TEEI’s current platform, a conversation hour is the time the volunteer and the learner were connected to the same video session together, capped at the booked window plus 30 minutes. Booked time is never added. The rule is set out in our impact methodology and the session method, and explained step by step in How TEEI counts a verified volunteer hour.

3. Outputs

Two things in this table are deliberate. The group line and the one-to-one lines are never added together, because a participant hour and a conversation hour are different units. And the programme-reach line uses floors from an earlier verification date and a wider scope, so it does not describe the same period or the same activity as the session count. A report should say so rather than place them side by side as if they matched.

4. Impact on people reached

Empty in this example. A figure here needs an indicator, a method, a denominator and coverage. Hours, sessions and reach cannot fill it, and the example does not try to.

5. Employee and business impacts

Empty. These are company data.

6. Method and limitations

• Hours and sessions are verified by TEEI from its own session records, not certified by an external auditor.
• TEEI Language and TEEI Mentorship are combined in the counter and cannot be separated.
• The all-time session total combines records from the platform TEEI used before with the platform it runs now; the session method sets out the historical counting rule.
• Group participant hours are reported separately and never added to conversation hours.
• The programme-reach figures cover wider language provision and mentoring. They are not a unique-attendee count for this reporting period.
• Hours measure time in sessions, not what changed for participants afterwards.

Using the kit with your own programme

If your employees volunteer with TEEI, the verified hours for your company come from the same session records as the counter above, and follow the same rule. To see how one hour travels from a session into a report, read Volunteer hours in a CSR report.

If you are planning the section for next year’s report and want to talk through which fields your programme can fill, contact the partnerships team.

How to cite this kit

The Educational Equality Institute (2026). Community Investment Report Kit: template, field dictionary and worked example. Example figures from published impact snapshot pub-2026-09-18T13-04Z-337ca44e, observed 18 September 2026.