You should already have a short list of communities you are part of. Today you are reflecting on one of them, not celebrating it.

If that list is missing or thin, take two minutes now and jot three communities you actually know well enough to evidence: a school club, a team, a parish group, a local project or a part-time workplace community. Family alone is not enough for the outside-membership line.

"It brings people together" is not an impact. An impact is something that would not exist if that community disappeared tomorrow: a skill you got, a person who would be more isolated, a thing outside the membership that got fixed or started.

You will also name one honest flaw. Every community has one. Noticing it is the point of the audit.

Three terms you will use in today's audit. Read the middle column carefully: each one ties straight to what you will write. The examples are illustrative, not claims about a named group.

First, walk through the sample Positive Influence Audit of a local Men's Shed. It is a worked example written to show the form (fictional local Shed, not a real named organisation). Watch how each impact carries a concrete fact, and how the last line names a real exclusion without softening it.

Then create or open your own document in your Strand 2.1 Digital Portfolio folder. Save it as Positive Influence Audit: [Community name] (for example Positive Influence Audit: School Drama Club). Use these four headings:

• Impact on me — one concrete fact (number, date or named event) and what would not exist without the community
• Impact on another member — someone you can actually describe, with a checkable fact
• Impact outside the membership — people who are not members, with a concrete fact
• One honest limitation — what the community does badly, or who it leaves out

Choose one community from your list. If the list is still thin, use a school club, team, parish group, local project or part-time workplace community you know well enough to evidence (family alone is not enough for the outside-membership line).

This reflection sits under Strand 2 / community in your Digital Portfolio. It builds evidence you may draw on later in an Applied Learning Task on community and in Portfolio in Action.

If you cannot find a fact for an impact, that impact is not ready yet. Find a better one or a better community from your list.

Talk these through with the person beside you, then decide whether your audit needs a sharper final line before you leave.

• Read your limitation line out loud. Would a member of that community recognise it as true, or did you soften it so nobody could argue?
• If your flaw line still feels vague, you probably need another look: what would you check next?

If you change the limitation line, update your Positive Influence Audit: [Community name] document before the period ends.

Optional stretch for early finishers only: pick a second community from your list that sits at a different level (for example local versus national, or school versus town) and write a three-line mini-audit underneath your main one: one impact with a fact, and one limitation.

Comparing the two side by side often shows that the community you feel best about is not always the one with the clearest outside impact.

Do not start this until your main four-part audit is complete and saved.