How has SROI helped me | How SROI has helped me |
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"The work [on SROI] will be of great help to us. it means we can make a strong case to investors, and have a sound planning & evaluation tool going forward. I think it will be really important for us to follow this up again in a couple of years. it is one of our core tools for measuring and sustaining sucess."- Alex Shead, Chief Executive, Fair Business "The SVA team brought expertise on the SROI methodology and established this SROI as a core tool for us to measure our impact. They asked hard questions about real outcomes for each stakeholder group and formed trusted relationships with Vision Autralia staff and executive"- David Speyer, GM Corporate Service, Vision Australia "The core business of Noaber is to create social return, through grants and social investments. Measuring impact accurately is therefore crucial to our success, and SROI enables us to assess all relevant aspects. We have integrated SROI in our business processes of screening, monitoring and evaluating projects. Supported by the social e-valuator webtool, the method helps the team to really involve (potential) projects in analyzing and improving the social business case. Identifying the key stakeholders and social value drivers improves the quality of the decision making and monitoring process. In conclusion, SROI helps us and our investees to focus on the factors that are significant in achieving the positive change that is aimed for."- Jan Olde Loohuis- Investment Analyst
"I see SROI as Impact plus- what I mean is that SROI brings a process and framework to demonstrating improved whole system impact by showing the results of our work in terms of both human outcomes and financial cost allowing us to set out how we really do deliver more or less! We are just about to open a new complex and chaotic needs service- and we are going to SROI it from day one."- Martin Kinsella, P3 Charity Click Here to read 'Third Sector Offender Mental Health Services Operating In the West Midlands' “At the Grow organisation we are often asked how we measure success, and we often cringe as we explain we monitor so many different aspects of our business. For the first time we now feel confident that SROI and our annual report gives us and our sister firms a template in which to target and measure our performance. These social key point indicators will be a valuable tool to help our organisations continue to flourish and Grow.”- Trevor Lynn CEO Mow and Grow "For FRC Group using SROI has been a fascinating process which has fine tuned our understanding of the impacts that are achieved as we improve our performance, and exposed areas in which we can do more."-Verity Timmins, Impact Manager, FRC Group "Bulky Bob's won the contract not only on the quality of the tender submission and value for money but also on the additional social and environmental benefits they bring to Liverpool and its residents. We were very impressed with their creative ideas and passion and crucially with the strength of the information they could provide to demonstrate that what they do really makes an impact"- Keith Cadman, Partnership & Contracts Manager, Liverpool City Council. "Local greenspaces make a real difference to the quality of life of people and communities. We know that "At Impact Arts we have embraced SROI as one of our central evaluation tools, which complements our existing evaluation practice very well. SROI has clear benefits for our organisation in terms of our future funding and business development activities, as well as focusing our day to day practice on where and how we add value." -Susan Akternel, Innovation and Development Director, Impact Arts
"SROI has helped us develop an ongoing relationship with our stakeholders which shows that we are listening to their needs and we can now report on how our work impacts on their lives and the lives of others." -Maeve Monaghan, Director, NOW Project
"Our departmental researchers necessarily tend to focus very much on the costs and benefits in terms of 'pure' costs of prisons or community sentences. Through using SROI in our work on women offenders and women at risk of offending- women who are often primary carers too- it vividly illustrates the broader costs that need to be considered within and beyond the department." - Liz Hogarth, Criminal Justice Women's Strategy Unit, Ministry of Justice “SROI was important for BTCV (British Trust for Conservation Volunteers) to evaluate its services and develop its case for investment. We now better understand the real value to society of ' green volunteering’, ie reduced crime, vandalism, increased leisure use of the space, and creation of ' green ' jobs. We are confident about the overall value of our offer, and the importance of external validation of our claims. We have commenced work in partnership with Defra and the New Economics Foundation on pro environmental behaviour. The Public Spending review will underpin the urgency of these investments for front line delivery NGO's”- Tom Flood, BTCV
"SROI has turned out to be an unlikely but very useful form of client engagement. Discussing the outcomes of the interventions with clients, and the effect of these on peoples' lives, is a very motivating and humbling experience and we shall be using this approach in the future"- Valarie Graham, Central Surrey Health"
"Social Return on Investment analysis provides concrete justification for industry partners and government funders who wish to support our organization's efforts to help women achieve economic security through recruitment, assessment, training, job placement and job retention support. It is tangible evodence of money well spent."- JudyLynn Archer, President & CEO, Women Building Futures |