No images? Click here December Newsletter 2020 Welcome to the Social Value UK December Newsletter. We hope you, your colleagues, friends and families are all healthy and well. Social Value UK will be offering a range of distance learning options, please click the button below for more information: Important Updates from Social Value UK
Recapping 2020 in Social Value UK What a momentous year it's been for us all. Like many other organisations across the world, we at Social Value UK had to hastily adapt our working styles and our services to the new world we were plunged into in the first quarter. We worked with our team, Social Value International and Networks worldwide, our partners and our members to make sure we can keep our movement growing during a time that has truly highlighted the importance of social value and our need to achieve our mission. Above is a word cloud submitted by our members at our Reflection on 2020 and Looking Forward Event. This year, Social Value UK:
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Method and Technical Updates First guide to understanding and enhancing social value launched by British Standards Institute BSI, in its role as the UK National Standards Body, has today published the first standard addressing the concept of social value. The new British standard outlines advice and principles to help public and private sector organizations understand and enhance their social value. Social Value UK sat on the technical committee alongside IEMA, NEF Consulting, Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply, PwC, University of Salford and Cambridge University. Read more here. Consultation On Principle 2: Understand What Changes Social Value International are proud to announce we have opened our consultation on our latest instalment of Principle 2 of the Social Value Principles: Understand What Changes. As a standard setter and a member-led organisation, we want the shaping of this to be inclusive of our members and invite your feedback. This consultation on Principle 2: Understand What Changes is specifically addressing Part 2 (“Selecting Indicators”) and Part 3 (“Quantifying Change”) and builds upon Part 1 (“Creating Well Defined Outcomes”). We recommend that you read Part 1 for useful context. Consultation open until January 26th 2021, find out more here. Inspiring Impact Updates The below graphics showcase our Q1 2021 Inspiring Impact events: South East Session 1: Using data to make decisions on Thursday 14th January Session 2: How to gather data - Qualitative or Quantitative? - An Introduction to methods - Thursday 18th February Session 3: Working practices and impact culture - organisational and sectoral on Thursday 18th March North West Session 3: Working practices and impact culture - organisational and sectoral on Wednesday 27th January. Midlands Session 3: Working practices and impact culture - organisational and sectoral on Wednesday 20th January. Find out more here. Positive News Updates To close our final newsletter of the year, we'd like to end on a few pieces of uplifting news articles. Covid-19 vaccine: 'Hopefully next year we'll be living a normal life' - BBC NewsSupermarkets in the UK cut down on single-use plastic this Christmas - Positive News ‘Paris effect’ has led to ‘unexpected’ rapid shift towards low-carbon economy - The Independent And a piece to fill you with both hope, and a dash of envy: “There Was A Pandemic?” What Life Is Like In Countries Without COVID - Buzzfeed News Have a safe and restful holiday period, we will see you in the New Year! Social Value UK Would you like to host a webinar or Ideas Exchange session? Then get in touch with Rebecca Harvey. If you have any feedback or would like to make a contribution to a future newsletter, please email David. The Social Value UK office is currently closed whilst our staff work from home, if you need to reach any of us, please contact the member of staff you wish to speak to directly via e-mail, if you do not know who you need to speak to or wish to make a general enquiry, please e-mail info@socialvalueuk.org and we will get back to you as soon as we can. Social Value UK encourages you to take care of yourself physically and mentally during this difficult time. |