Social value

What is social value? Simply put, it’s the material impact an organisation has on people, communities and the environment through its activities. When social value is built into an organisation’s strategy, it helps create lasting benefits - supporting people, places and the planet, and contributing to a fairer, more sustainable world.

Social value is not just the domain of charities and community groups. Public services and a growing number of businesses are developing their approach to social value to support their own growth and the sustainability of the communities they serve and operate in.

To help you develop a social value strategy or understand the social value you create through a social return on investment assessment, we’ll conduct various forms of research including community and stakeholder engagement as part of our evaluation.

Evaluating your social return on investment

We use the principles of Social Return on Investment (SROI), an internationally recognised framework for assessing the social, environmental, and economic value of an organisation’s work from the perspective of the stakeholders who feel a material impact.

By using this method we’re able to create an evidence base that’s valuable in your strategic decision-making. It can also be vital in supporting bids for funding and contracts where social value is a key determinant or even a pre-requisite.

Communicating your social value

It’s a growing need for responsible businesses and charities to communicate their impact. With a wide range of stakeholders from investors and directors to employees, suppliers and customers, we can support with the creation of impact reporting.

We want to help you share your success in the most meaningful way possible, so we offer a flexible approach to your impact reports and communication assets.

We help organisations understand, measure and communicate their impact by:

  • Evaluating social outcomes and social return on investment

  • Developing theory of change models

  • Improving data collection, analysis and storytelling

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