The SROI Network UK

KnowHow NonProfit Study Zone Course: Measuring your social return on investment - beginners' guide to SROI

"Prove your organisation's impact with this introductory course to social return on investment from the SROI Network. Whether you're seeking new funding or simply want to ensure your day to day activities connect to your objectives, SROI can help you understand, manage and quantify the value you are creating."

KnowHow NonProfit are offering an introductory course to social return on investment from the SROI Network. It consists of four online training videos totalling over 30 minutes of training, further resources and discussion forum with Jeremy Nicholls.

Guardian Identifying, measuring and demonstrating social value seminar

The Guardian with be holding a seminar on Identifying, Measuring and Demonstrating social value in London on 12th June 2012.

The Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 highlights the need for local authorities and organisations across the wider public sector to ensure suppliers can demonstrate that social, economic and environmental concerns are at the heart of public sector procurement. Commissioners and service providers are under pressure to cut costs and do more, and better, with less. There are challenges on all sides to measure and evaluate the impact decisions have on the wider community.

This seminar will look at the importance of measurement and assessment techniques, embedding social values through tendering and contract management, and a variety of evaluation and monitoring tools. SROI Network director Jenni Inglis will be participating in this seminar as a speaker.

For more information and to book your place click here.

"An Introduction to Measuring Social Value" - new training course now available

The SROI Network is pleased to announce a new training course - "An Introduction to Measuring Social Value."

The first date will be held in London on 26th June 2012.

It is important to understand the value we create to know if we are making a difference or not, and what the difference is. Often we know anecdotally what difference we make and we have good evidence of the activities that we deliver.

But what about evidence of the results and outcomes? What do people do with the opportunities that we give them in their lives and in the world beyond our contact with them?

Using SROI principles and parts of the process of SROI, this practical introduction will focus on understanding social value. The day will develop understanding through exercises, group discussion and real examples of valued outcomes. The level of rigour and resources required to measure social value will also be examined for different scales, audiences and objectives.

For full details, please click here.

"Accounting for social value one of the 10 most significant emerging (ESG) trends"

22nd March 2012

A SUPPLEMENT circulated within The Independent yesterday (21st March 2012) has found that "Accounting for social value is one of the the 10 most significant emerging environmental, social and governance (ESG) trends to watch" in 2012, according to MSCI, the global provider of investment decision support tools. "For investors, companies that fail to generate consistent social value represent a clear portfolio risk" it claims.

The "Accounting- Take control of your finances; Changes ahead: How the accounting industry is evolving and what this could mean for you" supplement is available to download from Media Planet here.

Social Return on Investment: Lessons learned in Australia

A new report prepared by SVA Consulting, commissioned by the Investing in Impact Partnership and funded by the PricewaterhouseCoopers Foundation to assess the current state of play of Social Return on Investment (SROI) in Australia today is now available for download here.

The report assesses the impact of recent developments and advises on actions to further the development and take-up of SROI in Australia, as well as highlighting its use via organisational case studies and its impact on the sector.