No images? Click here March Newsletter 2021 Welcome to the Social Value UK March Newsletter. We hope you, your colleagues, friends and families are all healthy and well. Social Value UK are now delivering our most popular training course online; Social Value and SROI Accredited Practitioner Training. If you're interested in taking part, find dates, pricing and more here. The next course kicks off on April 20th, but you can book our May course too!! Social Value and Procurement This month, we'd like to take a moment to focus on the important relationship between social value and procurement and to highlight some key developments, reading and events in this space. The Value Toolkit website has been overhauled and contains a great number of resources and information! Find out more here. Join the #ValueToolkit community to be part of the change. Keep an eye out for more info! UKGBC Framework for Defining Social Value in the Built Environment. Read it here on our blog, or head to their website here for more information on UKGBC’s new framework which addresses the challenge of defining social value in a way which is applicable and useful for all projects and places. Read more. Are you a public organisation looking to create sustainable impact through public procurement? CLES and Making Spend Matter have developed a Spend Analysis Tool and guide to help you understand how you can harness your procurement spend to make a difference for your place and communities. Learn more here. You can hear from SVUK Interim CEO Catherine Manning and many other amazing speakers next Friday at Online Conference: Social value and construction. Find out more info here. Catherine has all penned a fantastic article summarising much of the above, take a read of her piece 'The future of social procurement' on the Social Value UK blog here. Social Value UK Updates:
Find out more information and apply here. A new and improved version of the Social Value & Impact Management Exam will launch next week. By completing this exam, you can become a Level 1 Associate Practitioner, the first level on the Practitioner Status Pathway. Please note you will need to complete the exam and submit your supporting documents by 12th April to receive your results in the upcoming round. For more information, please contact craig.foden@socialvalueuk.org Our next Report Assurance round is opening on April 12th! Our next L1 Associate Practitioner Results round opens on April 19th! And to prep for in May, our Level 2 Accredited Practitioner and Level 3 Advanced Practitioner rounds are opening on May 10th! Find out more on all of the above here. Announcing our first Assurance Coffee Morning and Questions session! Join us to learn more about our services and find out how to get involved with us! Our first will be looking at Report Assurance and Level 1 Practitioner Applications and will take place on Tuesday, April 6th, 11:30 am-12:30 pm. Register for free here.
We are almost at the end of this year's Inspiring Impact Online Roadshow sessions! The final two online events are focused on VCSE sector organisations in the North East of England: Session 2: How to gather data – Qualitative or Quantitative? on Thursday 22nd April Session 3: Working practices and organisational culture on Thursday 20th May Find out more here.
In the midst of the hard reality we all face, and a lot of information thrown at you in this newsletter, we think we all deserve a bit of reprieve! Below are a few interesting and positive news stories we've seen over the last few weeks: Watch a video of a penguin jumping in a boat of people to avoid capture here. Bess, from Last Chance Animal Rescue, in Edenbridge finds new home after ten years! Read more. Sharks might be scary, but they are also cool. And what's cooler than a regular shark? One that glows in the dark like those star stickers that adorned bedroom walls in the 80s and 90s. Read more. And in news that will surely benefit us all, the 'Right to repair' law to come in this summer. Read more. Stay safe and well - Social Value UK
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