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Graft, tenacity and a touch of maverick: embedding social value across Cheshire & Merseyside
When Dave Sweeney first got started with social value, he readily admits few people understood his job.
Now the region has one of the UK's most innovative and flourishing social value scenes, thanks to the work of the Cheshire & Merseyside Health & Care Partnership.
Are you ready for the new Procurement Act?
Social Value Business welcomes the introduction of the new Public Procurement Act, which has the potential to transform public spending power for the benefit of communities.
Language Empire translates ‘work for good’ into clear social impact approach
With support from Social Value Business, Language Empire has strengthened its social value approach, identity, storytelling and culture.
Our journey to Silver: embedding social value within our health systems
Social value has a central role to play in the positive transformation of the NHS and our healthcare systems. But how can health organisations and NHS suppliers get smarter at embedding best practice at scale?
Dream Big Sports shares impressive impact in Annual Report
SVB client Dream Big Sports has demonstrated great strides in embedding social value, as showcased in the release of its new Annual Social Value report. This social enterprise contacted us in 2022 to undertake a gap analysis, develop a measurement framework and deliver social value training.
Measuring what matters: getting started with impact measurement
With a myriad of different approaches and conflicting advice, where should you start with measuring your social impact? Is there an agreed view of best practice?
Graft, tenacity and a touch of maverick: embedding social value across Cheshire & Merseyside
When Dave Sweeney first got started with social value, he readily admits few people understood his job.
Now the region has one of the UK’s most innovative and flourishing social value scenes, thanks to the work of the Cheshire & Merseyside Health & Care Partnership.
In this refreshing podcast, Dave speaks to MD Richard Dickins about the importance of tenacity and making social value ‘funky’. He explains what it takes to set up successful system-wide anchor approaches.
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