Social Value

Become a more socially responsible business

Social Value Support

Our team of dedicated Social Impact advisors are able to support your organisation to consider the impact of business operations on the community and wider society.

Social value refers to the positive impact that an organisation and its supply chains have on society, beyond just the profit they make. It involves working collaboratively with society to improve the community, economy, and environment around the organisation.

Businesses generating positive outcomes for staff, suppliers, customers and communities will also place themselves well to become more profitable and achieve positive outcomes in tenders and contract bids.. Having the ability to understand, monitor and report on your impact is key.

You may also be generating hidden social value that is yet to be identified. So regardless of where you are on your journey to becoming a more purposeful and profitable business, if you are a small, medium sized enterprise or a voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise organisations that is looking to grow, our team of experts within the Social Value Team can support through tailored one-to-one, cohort programmes and/or workshop mechanisms.

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What The Support Looks Like

We support businesses to understand their impact on wider society and how to harness this to become a more attractive business to prospective employees, customers, suppliers and partners.

Our team of specialist advisors have significant experience of delivering social value projects and supporting SME’s to positively increase their impact on society. We have the ability to provide fully-funded business support to help Greater Manchester SME’s to:

- Understand how your business impacts communities and society

- Monitor and report your social impact

- Build a social value strategy for long term sustainability

- Improve the effectiveness of community engagement and activity

- Win new business through the procurement and tendering process

- Understand and embed inclusivity and equity

Social Value Events and Workshops

Find out about the upcoming Social Impact events and workshops from GM Business Growth Hub

3rd July 2024

Introduction to Social Value | Manchester

This programme will give you a deeper understanding in to the topic of Social Value, to help your business understand the impacts it can have on communities and how it can play a part in helping you to win more work or access public funding.

Social Value gets us to think about how our businesses can support society/communities and how our businesses can impact on current issues in society, to improve the planet for future generations.

This programme will explain how and why Social Value is becoming an ever-larger part of the evaluation criteria for public sector contracts/funding and how to respond to this. The programme will cover:

- What is social value?

- Legislation around social value

- Why is it important for your organisation?

- Social Value Strategy & Policy

- Social Value Measurement & Reporting

- Best Practice of Social Value in Greater Manchester

- Q&A

Attendees will gain an understanding of the definitions and legislation around social value and why it is important that social value is embedded into an organisation’s strategy and way of working. The attendees will also understand the various ways social value can be measured/reported through the most common frameworks. Attendees will learn how to put together a social value strategy/policy document and best practise case studies.

Speaker

Nadir Sultan is a Social Value Specialist from The Business Growth Hub (Growth Company). Prior to his role as a Social Value Specialist, Nadir was working as a Senior Social Value Advisor at The Social Value Portal where he helped to embed the National TOMs framework into local authority procurement across the country. Nadir has vast experience in working with commissioners, procurement teams and businesses to understand, embed and think about social value in their everyday working lives.

As this workshop is fully-funded, businesses are subject to funders' eligibility criteria. If your place is confirmed, you will receive an email from us with further details.

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Measuring and Reporting Social Value | Manchester

Discover more about how we can work with you

Please complete the expression of interest form below and one of our Social Value team will be in touch.

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Social Value Resources and Insights

With social value accounting for up to 20% of a quality submission, contractors will be looking to supply chain to help share the responsibility.

Social value is something we place a high value on, and it is an area that is placed highly amongst Greater Manchester’s business priorities.

In the fast-paced landscape of the 21st century, where technology is evolving the need for upskilling the workforce has become more critical than ever.