Social value has been a priority at 245 Hammersmith Road since it first came into existence. The property is a 242,000 sq ft destination at the "heart of Hammersmith”. The property includes flexible workspace, three retail units, a public plaza and a park. Since conception, property owners
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Nuneaton Signs is a not-for-profit organisation with social value at its heart. It was created in 1982 by the local authority as two needs coincided. Nuneaton needed road signs as well as meaningful employment for people with disabilities. Calculate and report successes While social value has always
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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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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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Welsh Local Government Association (WLGA)'s Programme Manager Richard Dooner, tells us what he learned over the two days of the National Social Value Conference: Wales last week (17-18 November 2020). After helping to open the Conference, I nipped out to the virtual lobby and re-joined the
Read MoreEarlier this month, at the Social Value Leaders’ Summit, Cabinet Office parliamentary secretary Oliver Dowden has announced that the British government has reinforced its commitment to creating more social value. “This government will ensure that contracts are awarded on the basis of more than just value
Read MoreProject overview Wirral Council is pioneering an innovative model of service delivery through the placement and employment of looked after children and care leavers into frontline Streetscene and place based Services. Originating as a methodology by which the Authority could maximise the benefits of its apprentice
Read MoreStockton-on-Tees Borough Council has recently invested significantly in its CCTV network, control room and network systems. This has included upgrades to a number of cameras throughout the Borough and a refit to the control room bringing in technological advancements to the service. To safeguard this
Read MoreA case study showcasing Veolia and their use of the National TOMs methodology to measure Social Value [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tvOMsC3MoE[/embed]
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