Social impact assessmentSocial impact assessment

we help organisations to measure the impact of their initiatives so that they can illustrate social value and further embed it across all their activities

The Need: You are a socially responsible business, you give back to the communities you work in. But, when it comes to talking to your public sector partners or bidding for work you can only demonstrate your social impact with traditional KPIs or pictures of community events. There is a need for you to be able to:

  1. Articulate your social value to public sector partners.
  2. Support your public sector partners to demonstrate social benefit delivered to all their stakeholders.
  3. Engage staff in your corporate responsibility approach.
  4. Differentiate yourselves from your competitors in public sector procurements.
  5. Measure and improve your corporate responsibility performance and bring wider benefits to communities.

Our Response:  We help you to:

  1. Understand your audiences – We map your internal and external stakeholder audiences - understanding their needs from social impact measures and how they will be communicated.  This helps to shape assessment approaches.
  2. Learn from good and best practice –  We share our experiences from the public and private sector to help shape your approach.
  3. Understand what you already do –   We understand what you do, how you operate and identify your social impact areas.  You will have already collected some data and information to support strategic reporting and local contract requirements. Measures developed will align with your activity areas and build on your existing data collection systems.
  4. Develop bespoke measures – We develop a range of social impact measurement tools which work with your day to day operations and allow you to develop a rounded measure of your social impact corporately and locally responding to the needs of all your internal and external stakeholders.
  5. Engage your staff with the process – Effective measurement will only be possible if it is owned by your whole staff team. We work with you to develop tools to engage staff to ensure they understand what is being measure and why so that they contribute to the process.
  6. Reflect, learn and celebrate – Social impact assessment is a learning process.  We can support you to assess corporate and local impact measures - understanding what has worked well, identifying ways in which social impact could be improved – and share your best practice and plans with your staff.
The Benefits: There are many benefits of developing a strong approach to social impact assessment. For example, you are in a better position to illustrate the social value that you bring using objective and well considered measures; staff are more focused and understand a common goal that they are striving towards; and developing an approach to social impact assessment helps you to learn how your organisation can continue to increase its social value in the future.


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