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Since its emergence in the procurement space over a decade ago, Social Value has flourished into a vital strategy for purpose-driven organisations to create positive, measurable impact.
As the creators of the leading measurement standard, Social Value TOM System™, and partners of choice to numerous businesses and government organisations, Social Value Portal has had a unique vantage point on this remarkable growth.
Our 2024 Social Value Insights Report is the industry's first benchmarking analysis of its kind. Leveraging nearly a decade of proprietary data and expert surveys, it reveals several eye-opening trends:
Social Value has enjoyed steadily rising prominence since the Social Value Act 2012. However, our research reveals that this trend has skyrocketed by an incredible 650% since 2020, a period that saw a plethora of legislation making Social Value central to procurement and impact reporting.
In our report, we dig into the numbers, including the total growth figure and the sectors seeing the swiftest growth.
Using the TOM System, Social Value Portal’s platform tracks both the Social Value being committed by organisations, and the actual Social Value ultimately delivered against those commitments.
We wanted to see if organisations were keeping hitting their targets or falling short. The results of our analysis were hugely encouraging, showing that delivery is on average hitting and often exceeding commitments.
We have even highlighted the most popular Measures within the TOM System – including £10 billion delivered by a single one!
With years of robust Social Value reporting on our platform to interrogate, we have been able to discover how much Social Value is being delivered on average on a project-by-project basis in a range of contexts.
For instance, our report highlights the industries delivering the most Social Value per contract. We have also found that smaller businesses, often assumed to have limited potential for Social Value delivery, on average generate more Social Value per project than their larger counterparts.
With public sector procurement spend hitting £393 billion in 2022-2023, it’s clear that is a major opportunity to extract additional public benefits from the supply chain.
Our data shows that the UK’s public sector’s collaboration with its suppliers has generated huge benefits to the public – with an impressive 20% Social Value-add relative to contract value. While this figure will vary depending on sector and industry, it is clear that Social Value has become core to procurement.
Our Social Value Insights Report provides a breakdown of the relative performance of different industries – finding a clear front-runner.
Using data from our platform and analysis conducted by one of our key partners, we dig into the performance of this sector across 500 projects, several UK regions, and over £1bn worth of Social Value.
To gain exclusive access to all these unique findings and more, download your free copy of the 2024 Social Value Insights Report. It will arm with the most up-to-date insights so you can position yourself at the front of this accelerating agenda.
Access the 2024 Social Value Insights Report below.
Since 2017 Social Value Portal has been at the forefront of the Social Value movement. As creators of the endorsed Social Value TOM SystemTM, hosts of the annual Social Value Conference and founding members of the independent National Social Value Taskforce – they set industry standards and lead the business agenda.
Their unique mix of consultancy, cloud platform and programmes offer organisations the complete solution to accurately measure, manage and report Social Value – and create lasting impact.
In 2022, SVP achieved B Corp status, scoring above average in all assessed. The company’s aim is to promote better business and community wellbeing through the integration of Social Value into day-to-day business activity across all sectors.
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