Licensing conditions for the UK Social Value Bank

The use of values contained in the UK Social Value Bank, including the headline figures provided for illustration within the Guide and the values used or accessed via the Social Value Insight tool, is covered by licensing conditions.

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The values in the UK Social Value Bank are based on work presented in the following publications:

  • Methodology Note for Wellbeing Values (Simetrica-Jacobs, 2022, published by HACT)
  • Methodology Note for Exchequer Values (Simetrica-Jacobs, 2022, published by HACT)
  • Methodology note for deadweight (Simetrica-Jacobs, 2022, published by HACT)

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) – please see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync-nd/4.0/deed.en_GB

If either of the following paragraphs (1) or (2) below applies to you, the Noncommercial restriction on the above public licence is waived so that you can use this work for commercial purposes (the way in which this waiver works is set out below under the heading “Legal waiver”):

  1. You are a registered housing association or ALMO; or
  2. You are any other person or organisation whose verifiable turnover in its last financial year was less than £350,000,

AND, in either case, your use of the work does not include either of the following, which are strictly prohibited:

  1. resale of the values; and/or
  2. any other disposal of the values as part of or otherwise in connection with your business or a business venture (such as, by way of example only, by including the values as a freebee with any tool, product or service).

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Another way of saying a) and b) above is that if you are using the values within tools, products or services you provide on a commercial basis then you will need to buy a licence.

Housing associations and ALMOS and organisations with a turnover under £350,000 per annum can use the values contained within the calculator, but not for commercial purposes, including the resale of the values.

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Legal waiver

(if applicable, in accordance with the above conditions)

This constitutes a waiver of the NonCommercial restriction under the Attribution-NonCommerical-NoDerivs 4.0 International public licence granted above in respect of use of the UK Social Value Bank values so that the following words and provisions of this public licence are waived and shall not apply:

  • definition of NonCommercial (Section 1).
  • “for NonCommercial purposes only” (Section 2, a(A) and (B)).
  • “including when the Licensed Material is used other than for NonCommercial purposes” (Section 2, b, 3).
  • “for NonCommercial purposes only and” (Section 4, a).

Attribution

If you reproduce the values under the terms of the Creative Commons license, please attribute the work as follows:

  • Title: The UK Social Value Bank

References

Measuring the Social Impact of Community Investment: A Guide to using the Wellbeing Valuation Approach

Lizzie Trotter, Jim Vine, Matt Leach, Daniel Fujiwara (March 2014).

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The health impacts of housing associations' community investment activities

Lizzie Trotter, Jim Vine, Daniel Fujiwara (May 2015).

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The Wellbeing Value of Tackling Homelessness

Daniel Fujiwara, Jim Vine (September 2015).

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Valuing Housing and Local Environment Improvements using the Wellbeing Valuation Method and the English Housing Survey

Jim Vine, Mary-Kathryn Rallings Adams, Christina Knudsen, Ricky Lawton, Daniel Fujiwara (January 2017).

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Mental Health and Life Satisfaction: The Relationship between the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS) and Life Satisfaction

Daniel Fujiwara, Kieran Keohane, Vicky Clayton, Ulrike Hotopp (September 2017).

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Valuing improvements in mental health: Applying the wellbeing valuation method to WEMWBS

Lizzie Trotter, Mary-Kathryn Rallings Adams, Daniel Fujiwara, Kieran Keohane, Vicky Clayton (September 2017).

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Social value bank data

This analysis was conducted using the British Household Panel Survey, Understanding Society and the Crime Survey for England and Wales under licence by the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS). Responsibility for the analysis and interpretation of these data is solely that of the author.

The methodology used in the UK Social Value Bank is recognised and endorsed by the Treasury Green Book.