Find a Consultant
From our inception, our membership has provided a community and learning space to those building their skills and expertise in Social Value and Social Return on Investment (SROI) and this continues to grow. This community is now rich with practitioners and consultants willing and available to share their knowledge. This is not only an asset to Social Value UK, informing and leading nationwide and international practice, but they are also a resource to others. Below is a list of members that offer consultancy services.
We can offer a more personalised brokerage service to help connect organisations and consultants from within the membership so do join the membership and contact us. You can also request to be listed as a consultant when joining.
Disclaimer: any member can list themselves as a consultant, this list is not an endorsement. You can view if they have an organisational or individual accreditation in the end column, this is a verification of their application and/or understanding of the Principles of Social Value.
Moore Kingston Smith Nonprofit Advisory
Description:
Impact measurement is crucial for any organisation that delivers social good.
Understanding your organisation’s impact will help you to:
· Focus your work on what really matters – accountability to your stakeholders
· Report on the achievements of existing and future services
· Strengthen your organisation for the longer term
· Raise public trust and support
· Attract social investors and grow new income streams
We have a range of options to help you achieve this, suitable for organisations at any point in their impact journey, from initial advice, training, mentoring, indicative impact forecasting through to full evaluative measurement. Contact us for a free initial consultation
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://mooreks.co.uk/services/advisory/nonprofit-advisory
Social Value Business
Description:
We are a social and values led business, supporting social focused organisations throughout the UK. We work across the sectors advising, supporting and providing guidance within social value, strategic and operational planning, research and development.
Email: [email protected]
Tim Edwards
Description:
Tim is a specialist social value practitioner and business consultant. He has an extensive track record of supporting public, not for profit and private sector organisations and specific experience in the housing, skills and regeneration sectors.
Email: [email protected]
MB Associates
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://mbassociates.org/
Sheila Durie
Email: [email protected]
Jenni Inglis
Email: [email protected]
Envoy Partnership
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://envoypartnership.com/
Nicola Lynch
Description:
Nicola Lynch of LynchPin Support Ltd is an independent evaluator & Social Value consultant working across the UK & Ireland. Alongside her consultancy she has also recently been the National Lead on Civil Society for Social Value UK and specialises in supporting organisations in the voluntary, charitable and social enterprise sectors. She is one of only 20 practitioners in the UK qualified to Level 3 Advanced Practitioner status by Social Value International and her work is informed by the very best principles of stakeholder-empowered qualitative research. She supports a wide range of organisations to understand, articulate, measure and maximise their social value through the application of the social value principles – putting people and planet first. Nicola is also a regular speaker at events and a popular purveyor of workshops, training & coaching on a range of topics relevant to improving the delivery, measurement & management of both impact and value.
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://linkedin.com/in/nicola-lynch
Alice Jones
Description:
Alice Jones Impact Consulting offers social value research and evaluation to organisations wishing to measure and improve their social impact. AJIC supports organisations in recognising and evidencing the social value that they create, enabling them to make a robust business case for their activities, including attracting external funding. I work closely with organisations and the communities they engage with to support social value strategy and planning, and deliver rigorous and meaningful social impact evaluations for their projects and services. This covers a wide range of areas, including: housing and regeneration; health and wellbeing; employment, training, education and volunteering; fuel poverty and energy efficiency; food poverty; family, community and social wellbeing.
Email: [email protected]
Kai-zen Change for Good CIC
Description:
We are a social enterprise based in the heart of the UK (Leicestershire) that seeks to make a stepped change in how business is done. We bring fresh, new, innovative approaches and solutions by using the principles of Kaizen (continuous improvement) and Social Value to business planning.
‘Kaizen’ is a recognised business improvement approach that literally means to ‘change and improve for the better’. Continuous improvement and helping businesses to maximise their impact is at the heart of what we do.
We provide one to one mentoring, training in impact management, social impact modelling, social return on investment evaluation and business improvement planning. We also help public sector organisations to evaluate services and develop outcomes metrics for new funding and delivery models that result in fiscal savings.
In addition we help businesses to raise funds and social investment, we support strategy development and business planning, and we provide workplace wellbeing support.
Email: [email protected]
Lynne Haddow
Email: [email protected]
Janina Neumann
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://janinaneumanndesign.co.uk
Samtaler
Description:
Samtaler is a social value agency. We help businesses understand what social value is, and how they can create and deliver it. We have four core services: Public Sector bid support and delivery; Social Value Strategy Design and Delivery; Procurement; and Training.
Our clients are mainly large, multinational companies.
Our client portfolio currently includes Capita, Oracle, KBR, Airbus Defence and Space, Vattenfall, 2San, Randstad, and PeoplePlus.
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://www.samtaler.co.uk
Description:
Samtaler is a social value agency. We help businesses understand what social value is, and how they can create and deliver it. We have four core services: Public Sector bid support and delivery; Social Value Strategy Design and Delivery; Procurement; and Training.
Our clients are mainly large, multinational companies.
Our client portfolio currently includes Capita, Oracle, KBR, Airbus Defence and Space, Vattenfall, 2San, Randstad, and PeoplePlus.
Bean Research
Description:
Bean Research are social impact and social value research experts. We’re passionate about social impact, but rooted in the rigour of research. We work with businesses, academic institutions, foundations and charities – and regularly analyse grantee and supplier reporting. We create practical, workable Theories of Change, development of impact frameworks, and conduct projected and reflective impact evaluation, including Social Return on Investment (SROI).
We have particular experience of evaluating social impact on projects with multiple partners, funders and initiatives. We also advise on Social Value alignment with corporate procurement, sustainability & ESG demands.
Our Director, Charlotte Turner, is the also the Social Value lead at Cranfield School of Management, and a regular speaker on Social Impact Assessment.
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://beanresearch.co.uk
Paul Valentine
Description:
Sonar Engagement is an association made up of experienced Social Value strategists & practitioners, with a proven background in stakeholder management, community engagement community and project management.
Social Value CWaNA ™ (Community Wants and Needs Assessment)
SONAR Engagements’ unique CWaNA™ reports gathers open-source information that reflect local community needs, including Local Authority priorities, history, political make up, demographics, areas of deprivation, health and crime and barriers to employment.
Gathering data at an elevated level provides clients with a broad understanding of priorities and issues of any given area and demonstrates to potential clients (PQQ / Tender) that you have knowledge of their area and have adapted your social value plans against local need and have set Social Value outcomes accordingly.
Through stakeholder interviews, we gain valuable insight into local ‘community intelligence’ that helps identify where Social Value intervention(s) can be best made and would be most welcomed by the community. By talking with local statutory and non-government organisations, VCSE’s & SME’s. (Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise and Small and Medium size enterprises) we support ‘grass roots up’ Social Value delivery, avoiding duplication of Social Value effort whilst leaving lasting legacies – the difference is, we collaborate with communities, not ‘unto’ them.
The CWaNA ™ independent approach elevates Social Value to a more transparent level and helps build more trusted relationships within communities. It informs project leaders / teams whose work has the potential to cause material impacts on people and communities, positive and negative, direct and indirect.
Our social value recommendations (options) are aligned to clients social value strategies and organisational values and are realistic in their capacity to deliver, whilst promoting and encouraging Social Value collaboration across the supply chain = One Social Value plan per project.
The Communities Social Value Options can be delivered over the short, medium, and long term with outcomes that represent greater Social Return on Investment (SROI).
CWaNA ™ evidence gathered / data / successes will be attributable towards targets set for the Social Value Quality Mark®. and can be calculated through National TOMs / National Rail Social Value Tool / Thrive / Loop / Supply chain school (National Highways) and other quantitative tools.
www.sonarengagement.com
Get in touch:
Paul Valentine
Director
Tel 07596 278260
Email: [email protected]