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Custard's 🐾  Social Value Subscription forecasting tool

See how much Social Value your subscription could create:

Up to 5 staff

£25pm

Up to 10 staff

£50pm

Up to 15 staff

£75pm

Up to 20 staff

£100pm

Up to 25 staff

£125pm

Up to 30 staff

£150pm

Up to 35 staff

£175pm

Up to 40 staff

£200pm

Up to 45 staff

£225pm

Your Social Return On Investment (SROI) forecast:

£20,140.59

per year

Buy a Social Value Subscription

£125 per month

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If you company has more than 45 staff, or doesn't operate in Plymouth or Cornwall, Contact us.

Giving your CSR and ESG a little TLC

These days, your business is expected to do more than just deliver profit, you’re expected to make a positive impact too.

Luckily, positive and impact are both right up our street.

At Time4Good, we make it simple for businesses to turn good intentions into measurable impact. Our Social Value Subscription gives you a practical way to engage your team, support your community and report on your impact. All in line with your CSR and ESG goals.

Whether you're bidding for public sector work, aiming for B-Corp status, or simply wanting to be a more purpose-driven business, we're here to help you walk the talk.

Let’s make kindness count for your business, your people and your place. Book a 15min chat.

What is Social Value?

It's the outcomes of societal and environmental changes, measured in monetary terms.

There's more info below, but in summary: Creating Social Value makes the world better. It's important for bids and tenders. It's not that easy to measure. We can help you create and report on Social Value.

Wait, so what the fudge is Social Value??

It’s about putting a tangible metric—money—on the outcomes of changes.

Changes in “themes” like health and well-being, environmental sustainability or community and social cohesion.

Under these themes there are 100s of “proxies”. These are the things that social scientists have given a monetary value.

Some favourites of ours are:

  • The value of engagement in football.
  • The value of befriending.
  • The value of avoidable food waste.
  • The value of carbon savings from growing veg on an allotment—per metre per year.

There’s even a proxy for reading a book a month.

It’s so cool.

“Why is Social Value important to my business?”

Three reasons:

  1. The 2012 Social Value Act.

    When you go for a public sector bid or tender, as much as 20% of the mark could be for Social Value. Which is hard to measure (before now!).

  2. To attract the best talent.

    People are more aware of the environment and community than ever. Especially Gen Z, who are looking for employers who share their values.

  3. Brand reputation.

    Given a choice, and all else being equal, people buy from brands who care beyond their bottom line.

Can I just calculate Social Value myself?

Yehhh, but it’s not that easy.

You’ve gotta understand things like themes, outcomes, proxies and deflators.

There’s the TOMS framework, which is freely available, but it’s a big old document which takes some understanding.

And there’s the Social Value Engine, which is great but costs over a grand a year licence. And you’ll need training to use it.

Much easier to take out a Time4Good Social Value Subscription!

What you get with a Time4Good

Social Value Subscription

1

We’ll match and arrange your staff volunteering

If your staff get paid time to volunteer, we'll help make it happen — and save you admin time in the process.

We'll match your team with high impact volunteering opportunities and handle the logistics.

2

You'll own Social Value by supporting local circles

Whether or not your team want to volunteer, you can still create measured Social Value with Time4Good.

Local kindness and micro volunteering circles won’t exist without your support. So you get a share in the Social Value.

3

You'll get Social Value reports and Kindness Shareables

1 + 2 = 3. We’ll calculate the Social Value from your team’s volunteering, plus the Social Value created in circles you support.

You’ll get reports that support bids and tenders. And awesome Kindness Shareables for your socials.

Matched and arranged corporate volunteering

We don’t

Organise team away days

We do

Find your staff high impact volunteering opportunities

Does your staff volunteering have low take-up?

Time4Good can fix that.

Not by offering away days. There’s other companies that’ll sort you out with some charity garden pruning, complete with packed lunch.

That’s not us. We match your team with high impact volunteering opportunities. Where it makes a real difference to charities and creates a ton of Social Value. Skilled volunteering is worth £101 per hour in Social Value!

First, we find out your team’s skills and interests. Optionally, we can set up a company ‘offers’ circle which local charities can browse, taking up any offers that are valuable to them. Flipping the traditional “I’m a charity, I need x, y and z.”

We’ll also reach out to our deep charity, non-profit and grassroots networks. Matching your team with positive organisations and causes that need your time and skills.

Every couple of months we’ll send you volunteering opportunities directly. There’s no obligation to take these up. But when your schedule allows, there are likely to be volunteering opportunities ready for you.

When you say yes to an opportunity, we’ll do the leg work of finding convenient dates and locations. Saving you admin time, and making sure the kindness happens.

We’ll calculate the Social Value all your team’s efforts have created, and report back!

If you're not ready to volunteer, or don't want to, that's cool too. You'll still be supporting local kindness and micro volunteering circles. And owning a portion of the Social Value they create.

Neil Minion Plynouth City Council volunteer coordinator

“Time4Good is key to linking our VCSEs with skilled corporate volunteers who can offer such valuable expertise.”

—Neil Minion, Plymouth City Council Volunteer Service Manager

Support local kindness and micro volunteering circles

Illustration of micro volunteers
Venn diagram with people, charities and your business, with Time4Good in the middle

Own Social Value by supporting local circles, and help connect communities.

Think of circles like WhatsApp groups (only better 😉). Check out the People of Plymouth circle.

Your business logo on a circle

They are where offers, requests and events are posted. We call these “Activities”.

Activities can be posted in one or more circles. They can be set as private to the circle(s), or be visible publicly beyond the circle(s). You can’t do that on WhatsApp.

People, charities and businesses can post and respond to Activities.

Whenever an activity is posted, everyone who has joined that circle is notified.

Let’s say Citizens Advice Plymouth posted that they need a poster designer:

  1. Kerry from your team responds (in alignment with your volunteering policy and schedule).
  2. Citizens Advice Plymouth brief them.
  3. They do the design.
  4. Citizens Advice send Kerry a thank you to add to their collection, and record their time. (You can’t do those on WhatsApp either!)

Kerry’s happy having done something meaningful for charity. Citizens Advice are happy to have a really cool poster. And you’re happy as a business owner because we’ve added 8 hours of skilled volunteering to your Social Value report, at £101 per hour!

As for us, we’re always happy 🐶

Social Value reports and Kindness Shareables

Social value reports and kindness shareables

Did you hear the one about the company who missed their tender mark by 2 points?

Unfortunately that’s not a joke. Social value is often up to 20% of tender marks, many companies score poorly in this part.

We can help.

The third part of your Social Value Subscription is a detailed breakdown of all the Social Value you’ve created. Which can be used to support your next tender. No more missing out on the Social Value marks.

Plus, we’ll make you some awesome Kindness Shareables for your socials! Good vibes equals good customers.

What to expect

So you fancy taking out a Social Value Subscription. What happens next?

First, we'll ask whether you're interested being matched up with volunteering opportunities.

If your business isn't in that position right now, that's cool, you can still feel good in the knowledge that you're supporting local kindness and micro volunteering. You'll still get a share in the circle's Social Value and positive association.

If you'd like volunteering opportunities, we'll run a quick discovery session to find out what skills and time your team would like to offer charities and good causes. In accordance with your staff volunteering policies.

Every couple of months we'll send you high impact volunteering opportunities. You can decide whether or not to share them with your team. Your schedule is your business. No pressure from our end.

Whether or not your team volunteers, each quarter we'll send you Social Value reports and Kindness Shareables!

Get your Social Value Subscription

Do you care about Corporate Social Responsibility?

Do you want to support kindness and connection in your local community?

Do you want an easy way to create measured Social Value?

There's a Time4Good Social Value Subscription with your name on it :-)

Let's talk about your needs and how T4G can help. Book a free chat.

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NB: If you have more than 45 staff, contact us.
If you’re not in Plymouth or Cornwall, contact us.
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Promote and manage your one-off, daily or weekly events.

Record time

Record the time you've given or received.
Please complete your profile to record time.

Add a request

Request help from your community.
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Add an offer

Offer to help your community.
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Your SROI forecast...

Is just that, a forecast.

The actual Social Value your subscription creates could be more or less.

This calculation assumes half your staff will be engaged in higher-skilled volunteering on T4G, and the other half in lower-skilled volunteering.

Skilled volunteering has a much higher Social Value.

If you're not in a position to offer staff volunteering time, then the Social Value you create on T4G could be lower.

But you'll still own a portion of the Social Value local circle(s) create.

We've collaborated with Social Value practitioners to create this forecast, based on a 'typical' circle, using these proxies:

  • Improved volunteer support structure
  • Value placed by a local authority on volunteering
  • Value volunteering has on wellbeing and quality of life
  • Value ascribed to living in a good place
  • Value of increased happiness through living near green space
  • Improved reputation of organisation/charity
  • Improved reputation of organisation/charity
  • Skilled volunteering
  • Improved digital inclusion
  • Increased volunteering and community participation
  • People feeling empowered that they can affect change/decisions in their community

The actual Social Value will include some or all of these proxies, and potentially others, depending on the types of kindness and micro volunteering going on.

To understand more about what Social Value is, see the "What is Social Value" section of this page.

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