Regional Research Hubs provide the longitudinal evidence of dual impact!
Through our Dual Impact Collaboration with public procurement, we operate a self-funded research operation to pinpoint and publish evidence that social value leads to a dual impact within communities.
We're making dual impact social value more visible to UK communities.
Communities are taxpayers and residents, who want to see value for their money from the billions in UK spending across emergency services, public bodies and services.
So, within our ecosystem we've established a Regional Research Hub approach to enable our communities to see the real evidence of impact achieved from supplier social value:
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- Regional hubs operate through university members within the ecosystem
- Academics provide the independent regional review of dual impact from collecting available data (from public bodies/think tanks, charity & social enterprise operators and business social value portals/reviews).
- Hubs produce insights and metrics relating to dual impact from projects/services/programmes being sustained by public supplier social value contributions.
- Research is published and shared with communities, and with public bodies and contributing businesses.
Business Social Value Portals/Reporting
We invite business suppliers to share their social value and impact reporting into public bodies.
Although this is very much unvalidated social value and impact self-assessment from businesses, via portals, it allows researchers to reconcile with wider data harvested from across a county.
Public Sector Data Harvesting & Reporting
We invite, through freedom of information and following GDPR, public bodies to share their data for inclusion
Mindful of sensitivities, this is very much about understanding and adding-in the real-term cost benefits from delivering impact - from reductions in crime and violence, reducing the demand and costs of public services.
Independent Thinks Tanks & Research
We invite data sharing and collaborations with wider thank tanks and commissioning of research from private funders.
Breaking down the silos is what we want, removing duplication and ensuring available information leads to the same objective; shaping policy and practice.
Data Outcomes & Metrics from Communities
We help our charity and social enterprise members to establish a theory of change (ToC) then capture data.
Locked within thousands of hours of weekly activities inside communities, is the missing data needed for meaningful socioeconomic impact research and reporting.
We promote insights, to build engagement and trust within communities!
Winning community hearts and minds, comes by building trust that change is happening, which is why the ecosystem has a dedicated communications operation.
Dual Impact Collaborations utilise the existing communications channels and relationships within counties, whilst we also utilise the expansive social media reach our charity and social enterprise members have in place.