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Valuing Housing and Local Environment Improvements report
Housing associations annually spend £3.3 billion on routine maintenance, planned maintenance and major repairs, representing a huge proportion of organisational…
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Groundwork Publish Their Impact Report
Groundwork Manchester, Salford, Stockport, Tameside and Trafford have published their impact report for 2015-16. Impact and standards Building stronger communities…
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Commissioning in Crisis
Lloyds Bank Foundation’s latest report Commissioning in Crisis highlights how commissioning processes penalise small charities in particular. Since the outlook…
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Impact Management Programme
New Philanthropy Capital and a group of partners have recently launched the Impact Management Programme http://accessimpact.org/#about This programme aims to…
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Nominations for Social Value Awards 2017: open now
Nominations are now open for the Social Value Awards 2017. These awards recognise and celebrate good practice in commissioning and…
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HACT and the Northern Housing Consortium’s Social Value Conference
Housing associations are already leading the way in driving and demonstrating social value. They are starting to collect better data…
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Twine – easy impact management for community businesses
Power to Change was set up in response to growing recognition of the challenges faced by communities in maintaining vibrant…
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Salford City Council has wins the ‘Buy Social’ Market Builder Award
The annual UK Social Enterprise Awards returned on Monday 28 November to recognise the achievements of British social enterprises –…
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The Social Value Exchange: how a new innovation is breathing life into the Social Value Act
A new blog by Tom Symons and Dan Ebanks at Nesta explores how innovations in procurement can change the relationship between…
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Social Value Summit 2017
The fourth Social Value Summit, the leading event in its field, will take place on 8th February in London. The Summit brings…
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New Impact Management Programme
The Impact Management Programme aims to build the capacity of social enterprises and charities to manage their impact helping increase your social…
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Social Value Taskforce Maturity Index
The Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 (‘Act’) came into force in January 2013 and yet despite the time that…
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SROI Assessment of the Salford Dadz Project
About the Salford Men’s Wellbeing Project The Salford Men’s Wellbeing Project ran from August 2013 to July 2015 and was…
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Impact Strategy Workshops with the Pebble
WORKSHOP 1 – Next date 22nd November 2016 Organisational Impact Are you making the change you think you are? You…
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Measuring social value: new Salford case study
The Office of Civil Society has launched a series of case studies showing how providers apply social value. The Office…
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