Social Value Management Certificate

What is the Social Value Management Certificate?

The Social Value Management Certificate (SVMC) is a multi-level award for organisations, departments or projects. It helps them:

Manage risks: Preparing for the SVMC helps you identify the risk of unintended and negative outcomes, giving you confidence about the future.
Maximise impact: The SVMC process can help you make evidence-based decisions to maximise your social impact.
Improve practice: The SVMC process helps you embed good practice as you follow a clear pathway for improvement where progress is made at every level.
Gain competitive advantage: The SVMC shows investors, customers, commissioners and others that your work aligns with the international standard for managing social value. Stakeholders are more likely to support your organisation if they know you are improving society.

Update

As part of our commitment to continually develop and improve our services with member feedback, the Social Value Management Certificate service is currently under review. While the review is underway, we will not be accepting new applications for the Social Value Management.

Applications which were made prior to 31 December 2024 will be processed as usual.

To express an interest in applying for the Social Value Management Certificate when it is relaunched, please complete the form below.

SVMC Expression of Interest

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Organisational Member of The Institute for Social Value

Individual Member of Social Value International

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Level 1: Commit

Level 2: Implement

Level 3: Maximise

Level 1: Commit

An organisation or programme must demonstrate a commitment to embedding the SVI Framework and The Principles of Social Value into its policies and practices, supported by senior management and/ or the board. This means an explicit commitment to managing the social value being created in the organisation for all stakeholders.

Level 2: Implement

The organisation or programme must show that the commitment to managing social value in alignment to the SVI Framework and the Social Value Principles is being implemented into the organisational practice. This will include evidence of data that has been collected.

Level 3: Maximise

The organisation or programme must demonstrate that social value is being managed with an aim to maximise the value that is being created within the organisation’s available resources for all stakeholders. This means social value data is being used in organisational decision making continuously and systems and processes are being reviewed and improved.