Dear SVUK members,

Welcome to our new social value forum exclusively for our member community! We do hope this is a useful resource for you all.

Please do drop in and say hello as you sign up to the members area, we invite you to share a bit about yourselves, and your interests and work in social value.

I’ll kick things off, my name is Catherine Manning, I am the Operations Director at Social Value UK. I lead on our membership engagement with my colleagues in our Engagement Team. I also lead our Technical Team who develop and deliver our social value training, assurance and accreditation services, and project delivery, as well as developing tools, and guidance. A few exciting developments at the moment include our recently piloted Navigating the Social Value Landscape programme, and our collaboration with Envoy Partnerships in relaunching the Global Value Exchange.

I also lead on our Contract for Change programme working with our members and community to develop better principles based social value practice in commissioning, procurement and contracting. Do check out the website here: https://contractforchange.org/

In SVUK we work closely with the Social Value International team and global network. I sit on the SVI board, the SVI Reporting and Assurance Technical Committee, and the Training and Professional Development taskforce.

I’m based in Liverpool, so if you’re in the city or around the North West and fancy an in person catch up do reach out. Otherwise, I’m available for video or normal calls, and on email [email protected]

Thanks, and looking forward to engaging in our new forum with you all