Social Value
Embracing social value connects businesses with community, people and place. These connections and the value that they generate — whether in better public services, stronger communities, growth of the economy, shared information or reduced cost — help support people to reach their potential. Social value in the context of the built environment relates to the benefits that places provide to local communities, residents, local businesses, now or in the future. To maximise social value outcomes, it is important that places are planned, maintained, built and operated so they can create worthwhile jobs and bolster economic growth, as well as improve local health and wellbeing, and strengthen the community. We are here to support you in understanding and embedding social value in your projects.
The types of support we can offer includes:
advice on securing maximum social value through: setting strategy, preparing policies, procurement advice, impact articulation, impact measurement and impact reporting
access to online seminars, surgeries and direct 1-1 support
Topic Lead: Alison Ball
Alison is a sustainability consultant and leads a team of specialists providing strategic social value and sustainability advice for infrastructure projects in the NW region. This includes advice on strategies, plans and the articulation, measurement and valuation of social and environmental impacts. Her team help clients make more informed decisions to deliver economic, social and environmental benefits of infrastructure for stakeholders and communities.
Alison is Community Engagement Programme Manager for the UKIMEA, supporting staff who wish to work with local communities and schools to deliver pro-bono projects and inspire the next generation of would be Arupians. She is also a UKIMEA member of Arup's Global Social Value Network and helped develop Arup's Global Infrastructure Sustainability Strategy.
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