As responsible investing moves to the forefront of the real estate industry, implementing a modern, robust and transparent ESG programme is more important than ever. The Rise of Responsibility 2020 shifted corporate and investor focus more towards sustainability than ever before. Responsible investing and Environmental, Social
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2020 has been a tough for everyone, with each of us having to bear our share of the burden and pain. For some, this has been urgently procuring PPE, and for others, it has been dealing with home schooling. But of course, the burden of pain
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The importance of social value in housing By Nathan Goode, Head of Data & Analytics Shelter, along with food and water, are the basic building blocks of our existence and our personal wellbeing. We are a social species and housing is also central to our social lives. Housing
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The eagerly anticipated outcome from the government consultation on changes to the Social Value Act of 2012 was launched last week and the message is clear, the £4 billion of annual government spend at all levels will be evaluated and monitored in order to maximise
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Employee wellbeing whilst working from home has been an important factor for organisations to consider over the last twelve months, as our Social Value Advisor Elaine Hutchison explains the knock-on business effects. When the Prime Minister gave the instruction to ‘Stay at home’, from 23rd March
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At Eric Wright FM, we believe that everyone wants to: Contribute towards social value; support the communities in which they work; and make a difference. So, the question is: How can we drive social value through employee engagement? Within this article we’ll explore: Eric Wright FM's approach to
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With the 2021 National Social Value Conference just 3 weeks away, we invited Fozia Parveen, Group Head of Social Value at ISG, to discuss why public sector social value targets must be re-evaluated in our current COVID climate. Time for a social value reset? The sense of
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Public and private sector working together to recover-rebuild-renew through social value Businesses across the board working together to rebuild communities. Private, public and third sectors will come together virtually at the 4th Annual National Social Value Conference on the 23 and 24 February to address maximising social
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By Neal Mahtani Social Value Portal, the UK’s leading social value measurement service and platform, uses its standard framework, the TOMs (Themes, Outcomes and Measures), to assess social value over the lifecycle of built assets. This framework is applied at all stages, including Feasibility, Planning, Development,
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What’s new on the Portal: Units Toolkit Our Portal is always finding new and better ways to help manage and report data. We have an exciting new development on the Social Value Portal: the introduction of a Units Toolkit. The Units Toolkit has been designed to allow Portal
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