The SROI Network UK

About The SROI Network

The SROI Network promotes the use and development of the Social Return on Investment methodology internationally, encouraging a community of practice along the way. The SROI Network is a membership organisation and a company limited by guarantee. The objectives of the SROI Network are:

• To ensure the principles and standards of SROI are adhered to
• To develop the methodology
• To disseminate information on indicators and proxies for use in SROI analyses
• To train SROI practitioners and provide peer support.

Staff

There is a small staff team to support these objectives

Chief Executive

Jeremy Nicholls became the chief executive of the Social Return on Investment (SROI) Network in 2008. Starting his working life as an accountant, his work has increasingly focused on understanding and managing the value of the impact of organisation’s activities. He set up the Cat’s Pyjamas running events to promote the value of social enterprise and shortly after started working on the development of SROI. He wrote’ There is no business like Social Business’ with Liam Black and co-wrote the UK Government supported ‘Guide to SROI’ He is the chair of FairPensions, a director of the FRC Group - a social business based in Liverpool and a director of Social Evaluator - an online platform for the analysis of social returns. As an occasional lecturer he has lectured at several Universities including Said Business School at Oxford University. Cambridge University and the University of Western Australia.

Office Manager

Tania Vera- Burgos is responsible for finance, supporting the assurance process and our training.

Training Manager

Tim Goodspeed has been the Training Manager since 2008. He has a background in economic development and social enterprise. He is an experienced trainer and an Accredited Practitioner. Tim is one of the authors of the Guide to SROI and has written and been involved in many SROIs. He is also a member of the Methodology subcommittee and is actively involved in developing and applying SROI.

Senior Researcher

Sarah McCoy is responsible for SEIF (Social Enterprise Investment Fund). Her role focuses on working with social enterprises to prepare forecasts of their Social Return on Investment.

Marketing and Communications Officer

Ashleigh Christie is responsible for all our advertising and marketing.

The Board

Chair

Richard Kennedy operates in the field of social investment and is part of the Breakthrough team at CAN. His roles and responsibilities include measuring of the economic, social and environmental performance of the fund as well as managing relationships with social entrepreneurs and CAN's corporate partners. Richard has an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Cape Town University and London Business School specialising in social enterprise and was a finalist at the Global Social Venture Competition 2007 held at Haas Business School in San Francisco. Previous to the MBA, Richard worked for Brown's Restaurants in London for 7 years in various roles. For more information on CAN please visit http://www.can-online.org.uk/

Finance Director

Karl Leathem founded Lodestar following contributions to the development of the Social Firms model in the UK.  In the last 9 years through his consultancy work he has developed special expertise in enterprise models mainly for the benefit of excluded people. To date he has completed 11 SROI studies with 3 more in progress. Work completed includes two NI based demonstration projects in the areas of specialist employment training & the arts. Others have included work in England with a theatre company run by people with learning disabilities, a credit union, a social housing project, a supported employment project in Ireland, an employment training project in Budapest, Hungary and a study carried out on behalf of Arts & Business.  Karl’s current SROI projects include a study of community work at one of Belfast’s “Interface areas”, and a national study with Circles Network UK.

Director

Jenni Inglis is consultant on social value in public service markets. Current work includes support to social enterprises selling to the public sector in the West Midlands and training and bespoke projects for Local Authorities on commissioning for Social Value. Recent work includes a supplement for commissioners to the Social Return on Investment (SROI) Guide published by the Cabinet Office, contribution to a study of social value created by social enterprises supplying mainstream health and social care for the Department of Health and major research into social enterprises in an English Region. Previously at Social Enterprise East Midlands, she initiated and contributed to “Social Enterprise and the Public Sector, a practical guide to law and policy” and was a Board member for the Office of the Third Sector Social Clauses Project. She has an MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice from the University of Bath (2007).

Director

Sheila Durie operates in the fields of social enterprise development, mental health and employment policy and organisational development. She has completed a large pilot programme on SROI, working with Forth Sector and supported by the Scottish Government and the European Equal programme. This helped 8 organisations implement SROI, resulting in 10 SROI reports across a spectrum of activities in the social enterprise and social economy sectors. During this pilot, building on her academic background in psychology, she developed new methods for measuring and financialising ‘soft outcomes’ such as employability, social capital and health improvement. She is the chair of ‘Social Enterprise in East Lothian’, a Board member of Social Firms Scotland and is chair of Re-Union Canal Boats Ltd.

Address & Contact

Office Address:

The SROI Network,
(14) 7th Floor,
Gostins Building,
Hanover Street,
Liverpool,
L1 4LN.

Tel: 0151 703 9229

Email: info@thesroinetwork.org