Our team of advisors are able to support your organisation to consider the impact of business operations on the community and wider society.

Businesses generating positive outcomes for staff, suppliers, customers and communities will also place themselves well to become more profitable. Having the ability to understand, monitor and report on your impact is key.

You may also be generating hidden social value that is yet to be identified. So regardless of where you are on your journey to becoming a more purposeful and profitable business, if you are a small, medium sized enterprise or a voluntary, community, faith and social enterprise organisations that is looking to grow, our team of experts within the Social Value Team can support through tailored one-to-one, cohort programmes and/or workshop mechanisms. 

We support businesses to understand their impact on wider society and how to harness this to become a more attractive business to prospective employees, customers, suppliers and partners.   

Our team of specialist advisors have significant experience of delivering social value projects and supporting SME’s to positively increase their impact on society. We have the ability to provide fully-funded business support to help Greater Manchester SME’s to: 

• Understand how your business impacts communities and society 
• Monitor and report your social impact 
• Build a social value strategy for long term sustainability 
• Improve the effectiveness of community engagement and activity 
• Win new business through the procurement and tendering process 
• Understand and embed inclusivity and equity  

Our ‘Understanding Social Value’ programme has been designed based on real-time social challenges that sit locally, nationally and globally. Each session will guide businesses to continually challenge and improve their operations and how they impact staff, customers, suppliers, partners and the wider community.  

Through a combination of expert advice, sharing good practice, linking with strategy and policy alongside the ability to share with ours via peer-to-peer learning – this programme will support business leaders to reflect how their organisations supports the economy and wider society whilst also aiming to maximise profits, open up and win new opportunities and improve livelihoods and quality of life at the same time.  

Please complete the expression of interest form below or contact Nadir Sultan, Social Value Business Advisor on nadir.sultan@growthco.uk or 07469504583 to discuss the programme.