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Last month saw the publication of ‘Levelling up our Communities: proposals for a new social covenant” Report by Danny Kruger MP. This was big news in the Charity Sector, with the tome rolling in at 52 pages. Kruger had been tasked with recommending ways to sustain, long term, the levels of community cohesion or ‘spirit’

The third scenario in the series ‘Defining Success in Social Impact’ considered the following scenario: “As a direct result of partnering with a hostel for the homeless, you are pleased to be able to employ an individual with experience of long-term homelessness. When his employment starts, his ‘address’ is that of the (nearby) hostel, but

Not for the faint hearted this one: Crown Commercial Services: Procurement Policy Note 06/20 Social Value in the Award of Central Government Contracts. Welcome to 2021 everybody, and with 1st January comes the central government requirement that Social Value is to be applied to all new procurements. So, what does this mean in practice? What

Thousands of children around the UK are at risk of falling behind their peers because they don’t have access to digital learning. Whilst digital exclusion isn’t a new thing, there is a need for urgent action to address the current home learning situation. At a micro level, many individuals and businesses are co-ordinating local schemes

A big part of Social Value is about building relationships with, and buying services from, the VCSE sector. Indicator NT14 (TOMS) reports the total amount of spend with VCSEs in your supply chain, while NT15-17 consider equipment, advice and resources donated to support VCSEs. Advice and equipment support is a topic for another day. In

Most people will be aware of Corporate Social Responsibility (or CSR). Even if you don’t know much about it, somewhere in the dusty recesses of memory will be an understanding that it’s about businesses doing good stuff, generally around donating money to worthy charitable and community causes. So, is Social Value just the latest term

Social Value is a methodology that is driven by public sector through supply chain. It’s likely that as a business, the first time you’ll come across it is in a tender document, where some of the scoring of the overall response will be ‘weighted’ towards how well you answer the SV question (usually about 10%).

Social Value is a methodology which enables us to quantify* social ‘good’. Indicator sets including the TOMs assign financial proxy values to social actions, and monitoring and measurement of these is encouraged through online reporting portals. In this way, generally speaking, Social Value delivery can be structured and accounted for in the same way as