VIVID: Applying consistency in measuring social value

We were approached by VIVID, Hampshire's largest provider of affordable homes, who faced a problem common to many housing providers: social value wasn't reported on consistently across their organsiation.
Our social value discovery service was able to provide concrete solutions.
Working with VIVID, we held a number of interviews with key heads of service and directors to identify what would help them most and what their current contextual drivers were. We then reviewed this evidence and made practical recommendations to address their needs.
VIVID have since adopted all our recommendations. Their Board have adopted a social value statement and all their service areas are working in a common approach to delivering social value.

EDAROTH: Developing a social value framework

EDAROTH are an affordable housing developer who wanted to understand how they generated social value and how they could link that to their operating environment.

Through a series of tailored workshops bringing together people from across the organisation, we helped identify its unique operating circumstances and the needs of the communities it services.

The output of this process was a social value framework, which is the foundation of any organisation looking to understand, measure and improve its social value.

The framework is helping EDAROTH to understand and measure is social value, using the data to inform business development and drive value for its communities.

Sovini Group: A rigorous certification service

The Sovini Group, a property management company and development group, faced multiple challenges around social value, such as inaccurate reporting and a lack of experience on how to report.
Our certification service offered them solutions. It provided a rigourous MOT of all their key processes around reporting to ensure accuracy and high standards, and made recommendations of how the organisation's approach to collecting social value information could be improved.
Our collaborative approach to information sharing was key. We set up one-to-one dialogues with staff, including the performance team manager, the community investment manager, and the business reporting lead.
After using our service the business and their Board had greater confidence in their systems of social value reporting. They knew they were collecting the right information, that it was accurate and that they were applying wellbeing evaluation in the right way.
The certificate they recieved on completion confirms the robustness and high quality of their reporting standards.