Platform Capabilities
The Social Value Engine simplifies the complexities of measuring and demonstrating social impact.
Whether you’re forecasting or evaluating a project, our platform provides the tools to measure, manage, and maximise your Social Return on Investment.
Easily set up and manage projects
The Social Value Engine simplifies creating and measuring your projects’ social impact.
In just a few steps, you can:
- Define your project’s scope and objectives
- Select relevant inputs and outputs
- Choose appropriate outcomes and proxies
- Input your data
The platform guides you through each stage, ensuring you use the correct values. You can edit, duplicate or delete projects as needed, allowing for continuous improvement and growth.
Use validated approximations of value (proxies)
Our team has sourced and validated over 850 approximations of value to support you in accurately calculating social return on investment. These proxies come from official government sources, independent reports, and academic sources. At least annually we will ensure that the latest version of the proxies is used and updated in the Engine.
Proxies make it easier to estimate the social return of your initiatives, and can go alongside user surveys or focus group interviews (to name a few ways to engage with stakeholders).
Alternatively, you will be able to add and utilise your own proxies, based on your own research.
Free access to training and support
We offer training to help you use the Social Value Engine:
- Get onboarding support
- Join regular training sessions
- Learn from our social value experts
- Receive practical guidance
Our team is also available to provide ongoing support as you use the platform.
Full transparency in social value calculations
The Social Value Engine offers auditable evidence for all data used in calculating your project’s social return on investment (SROI).
Key features include:
- Links to credible, open source evidence and research for evaluations, proxies, and auto-deflators
- Access to detailed calculations and assumptions behind SROI results
- Option to download and export all supporting information
This transparency ensures you can confidently report and validate your social value assessments.
Visualise your organisation's impact
Create a customised dashboard to track your organisation’s impact over time.
The dashboard clearly shows the relationships between:
- Inputs (resources used)
- Outputs (activities conducted)
- Outcomes (changes achieved)
- Social Return on Investment
This holistic view helps ensure all activities align with your organisation’s goals and objectives.
Tailor to your priorities
Align your outcomes with both local and global objectives:
- Link to your organisation’s specific priorities
- Connect with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) and other (inter)national standards
Demonstrate how your work contributes to:
- Your organisation’s mission and vision
- The broader global agenda for social and environmental change
Enhance collaboration
Create a virtual organisation to streamline partnership working:
- Invite and manage partner organisations
- Share data and insights securely
- Access joint reports and dashboards
This feature facilitates efficient collaboration, making it easier to deliver and demonstrate collective social value.
Proxies available in both Welsh and English
To better serve our customers in Wales, all our proxies are now available in Welsh, allowing you to report on social value metrics in your chosen language.
We value our partnership with the Welsh social value community and understand the significance of communicating in a native language.