Making the Most of Social Value

KendalDaniel Heery, Cumbria Social

Enterprise Growth Hub

Housekeeping

• Toilets• Fire• Mobile Phones • WiFi password sillysausage• Lunch• Slides

www.slideshare.net/daniel.heery/presentations

• Twitter #socialvaluecumbria

Programme

Outcomes

• A better understanding about social value and how it is viewed by public sector commissioners.

• How to show you are delivering you social objectives.

• Find out how other local social enterprises are getting to grips with measuring their impacts and social value.

• Network and find out what other social enterprises are up to around the County.

Cumbria Growth hub

• Cumbria Business Growth Hub aims to help your business unleash its potential with free business support for growth.

• A focal point for businesses looking to increase their competitiveness and grow.

• Other Hub stuff – venues around the County, specialist Hubs for Digital and Media, Agriculture, Adventure Sports etc.

• www.cumbriagrowthhub.co.uk

About Cumbria Social Enterprise Growth Network

• We offer a choice of business advice (2 days) specialist support for social enterprises aiming to grow

• 4 Training and networking events – Launch of Alston Moor Social Enterprise Town, Social Value, ? X 2

• CSEP Conference – 28th April, Kirkgate Centre Cockermouth,

• Covers FC United, Baywind, investment readiness for new EU funding, social enterprise awards.

• Supported by CCC, DEFRA, ERDF. • Delivered by Cybermoor on behalf of CSEP.• www.socialenterpriseincumbria.org

Social Value

• Social value has been defined as “‘the additional benefit to the community from a commissioning/procurement process over and above the direct purchasing of goods, services and outcomes”.

• Now public bodies are taking social value into account, social enterprises can gain a competitive advantage from their social and environmental impacts.

5 things to know about Social Value

• Social value is now a legal part of commissioning, by ensuring that authorities consider the wider social, economic and environmental benefit that they can achieve when buying services.

• Social Value came into law on the 1/1/13 so has been running for 13 months

• Councils can choose suppliers that provide social benefits, even if they are not the cheapest.

• Social enterprises can benefit from the social value act as they create social and environmental benefits, during their day to day operations. Socially minded conventional businesses can benefit as well.

• Social value needs to be measured and demonstrated – its important to specify what the social value will be e.g. creating X employment opportunities for long-term unemployed or disabled people.

Measuring Social Value

• Social Enterprise Mark – toolkit includes a SV statement and CSR certificate development.

• What do you measure?• How do you measure?• How is this communicated (annual reports,

bids, to stakeholders?)• Benefits or disadvantages?• Developing social value.