Social Value: Embedding, Measuring, and Communicating Impact
Across the UK, businesses are under growing pressure to demonstrate the social impact of their operations and value chain, from fair labour practices and inclusion to community wellbeing and supply chain resilience. With investors, customers, and regulators demanding greater transparency, it is a critical time to advance how your organisation is embedding, measuring, and communicating social impact.
Many organisations are still working out how to move from high-level commitment to operational practice. Social value provides the tools to make that shift. It provides businesses with the frameworks, measurement methods, and business language needed to embed social considerations into procurement, governance, and stakeholder engagement, and to communicate the difference they are making with confidence and credibility.
Once associated primarily with public procurement and the Social Value Act, social value is now emerging as a broader business tool, one that helps organisations make sense of, take responsibility for, and credibly demonstrate their impact.
The series consists of four webinars and two closed-door roundtables which will equip participants with practical tools, real-world case studies, and expert insight they can put into practice immediately, building the confidence and capability to operationalise social sustainability through a social value lens, wherever they are starting from.
Webinar 1
The Business Case for Social Value
Wednesday, 14 October 2026 - 13:00 - 14:30 BST
This session provides an overview of social value frameworks and makes the case for why social value provides a powerful vehicle for turning social sustainability commitments into concrete business practice.
Webinar 2
Effective Stakeholder Engagement
Wednesday 21 October 2026 - 10:00 - 11:30 BST
This session equips participants with practical tools and approaches to map stakeholders, build authentic relationships, and ensure that the voices of communities, employees, and supply chain partners are integrated into social value strategy.
Webinar 3
Embedding Social Value Across Governance Structures
Wednesday 04 November 2026 - 10:00 - 11:30 GMT
This session examines how organisations can move beyond isolated sustainability initiatives to make social value a permanent and systemic feature of how they operate, with clear ownership, decision-making frameworks, and measurement embedded throughout.
Webinar 4
Measuring and Communicating Impact
Wednesday 18 November 2026 - 13:00 - 14:30 GMT
This session provides practical guidance on navigating the social value reporting landscape, selecting appropriate measurement approaches, and communicating performance effectively.
Why Participate?
- Build the confidence and business case to move social sustainability commitments from aspiration to operational reality;
- Learn how to bring together disconnected activity across CSR, ESG, community investment and employee engagement into a coherent strategy;
- Gain practical social value tools and frameworks to embed, measure and communicate social impact across your organisation;
- Strengthen your approach to integrating social value into procurement, governance and day-to-day decision-making;
- Learn from expert speakers and connect with a growing community of practitioners applying social value tools across sectors
Who Should Attend?
Sustainability and ESG professionals, HR directors, social impact practitioners, supply chain managers, human rights and compliance leads, and senior decision-makers with operational responsibility for embedding social sustainability within their organisation. Open to both UN Global Compact Network UK members and non-members at no cost, and suitable for those new to social value as well as those looking to deepen existing practice.
Deep-Dive Roundtables
Building on the foundations established through the webinar series, we are pleased to offer a programme of thematic deep-dive roundtables for UN Global Compact Network UK members. These closed-door, in-person sessions bring together a small group of senior practitioners for a peer-led discussion that provides an opportunity to explore specific dimensions of social value in greater depth.
Roundtable attendance is exclusively for UN Global Compact Network UK members. To express your interest click here.
Contact
For any questions about the series please contact Katie Stuart, Project Manager, Social Sustainability.