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Starting Out on Social Return on Investment
Social Value UK have published a guide for anyone who thinks that value is more important than cost – but…
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Useful Resources from Green Growth
Green Growth have a variety of video and written case studies of what local companies have done to reduce their impact…
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Social and Economic Impact Report – University of Salford
The University of Salford’s role in the city and the wider region, in terms of its economic contribution and social…
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Valuing Housing and Local Environment Improvements report
Housing associations annually spend £3.3 billion on routine maintenance, planned maintenance and major repairs, representing a huge proportion of organisational…
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Groundwork Publish Their Impact Report
Groundwork Manchester, Salford, Stockport, Tameside and Trafford have published their impact report for 2015-16. Impact and standards Building stronger communities…
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Commissioning in Crisis
Lloyds Bank Foundation’s latest report Commissioning in Crisis highlights how commissioning processes penalise small charities in particular. Since the outlook…
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Impact Management Programme
New Philanthropy Capital and a group of partners have recently launched the Impact Management Programme http://accessimpact.org/#about This programme aims to…
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HACT and the Northern Housing Consortium’s Social Value Conference
Housing associations are already leading the way in driving and demonstrating social value. They are starting to collect better data…
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Salford City Council has wins the ‘Buy Social’ Market Builder Award
The annual UK Social Enterprise Awards returned on Monday 28 November to recognise the achievements of British social enterprises –…
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The Social Value Exchange: how a new innovation is breathing life into the Social Value Act
A new blog by Tom Symons and Dan Ebanks at Nesta explores how innovations in procurement can change the relationship between…
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Social Value Summit 2017
The fourth Social Value Summit, the leading event in its field, will take place on 8th February in London. The Summit brings…
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Measuring social value: new Salford case study
The Office of Civil Society has launched a series of case studies showing how providers apply social value. The Office…
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Social Audit Network Road Show Event
North West region 11th November 2016 42nd Street Charity The Space, 87-91 Great Ancoats Street, Manchester M4 5AG Event fee:…
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SROI Practitioner Training
Want to make your organisation’s activities more effective for your stakeholders? Interested in demonstrating your hard work to partners, funders…
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The Social Value Difference in Health and Care Commissioning
This short report details the difference social value can make in health and care commissioning, and shares learning for other…
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