For companies
How being more charitable wins you more business.
Social value is now scored in public tenders, read by customers, and noticed by the people you want to hire. We help you decide what yours is, measure it properly, and show it without overclaiming.
Why now
Three reasons social value has moved from the CSR page to the board agenda.
Tenders score it
Public buyers across the UK weigh social value alongside price and quality. In Wales, public bodies have had new duties to buy in a socially responsible way since March 2026. A credible, evidenced story is worth marks.
Your biggest social value budget is procurement
Every purchase decides where economic opportunity goes. Local spend, prompt payment to small suppliers and buying from social enterprises create more value than most charitable budgets.
A cheque is the least you can offer
Your skills, buildings, customers, networks and people are worth more to a charity than sponsorship. A strategic partnership is also worth more to you.
What we do for companies
We have sat on both sides of the table: leading charities, and advising the companies and foundations that fund them. That is what makes the advice practical.
Social value strategy
What your business should stand for, where it can make a real difference, and how that connects to growth. Decided at board level, owned across the company.
Measurement and reporting
A measurement framework that captures what changes because of what you do, not just what you spend. Honest numbers you can put in a tender, an ESG report or an annual report.
Charity partnership strategy
Who to work with, why them, and what both sides will contribute. We help you move from "will you sponsor us?" to a partnership that lasts.
Social value in bids
Evidence and wording for the social value sections of tenders, built from what you actually do rather than what sounds good.
Culture and people
Giving your employees a meaningful way to contribute, and showing the difference it makes to recruitment, retention and pride in the business.
Regulated sectors and levies
Deep experience in the gambling and financial sectors, where charitable contributions are expected and scrutinised. We help you make them count.
Ask the hard why
Four questions we put to every board we work with.
- Why do we give to the causes we give to?
- What changes because of it, and how would we know?
- Could more of our everyday spending do good as well?
- Would our staff and customers recognise the answers?
If any of them is hard to answer, that is where we start.
I found him to be knowledgeable, engaging and deeply interested in safer gambling and player protection.
Adrian Sladdin · Director, Ethical Gambling Forum
Not sure where to start? That's what the call is for.
Thirty minutes, no obligation. Tell us what you're working on and we'll say what we'd do next, and whether we're the right people to do it.
