SVE Connect is live: tracking social value commitments from award to outcome
SVE Connect is now live. It links commissioners, funders and grant-makers with their suppliers and delivery partners so social value commitments made at award become a live, evidenced record of delivery across a whole portfolio.
Social value commitments are easy to make and hard to follow. Once a contract is awarded or a grant is made, the promises written into the winning submission often disappear into spreadsheets, quarterly returns and inboxes. The funder loses sight of progress, the delivery partner loses time chasing formats, and the community the commitment was made for rarely hears what happened.
SVE Connect, now live, is built for that stage of the process. It links procurement teams, commissioners, funders and grant-makers with their suppliers and delivery partners in one place, so commitments made at award become a live record of delivery. Each partner reports progress against agreed outcomes, evidence sits alongside the numbers, and progress is visible to both sides throughout the life of the contract or grant.
What SVE Connect does
SVE Connect is a portfolio management product for organisations overseeing social value delivered by several external or internal teams. It replaces fragmented reporting, where one supplier sends KPIs, another sends a spreadsheet and a grant recipient sends a narrative report, with a common outcome-measurement framework that still reflects the people, place and circumstances of each project.
Connect runs on the same measurement engine as the rest of the Social Value Engine family, drawing on 650+ research-backed financial proxies from 100+ sources and over a decade of methodology accredited by Social Value International. Every figure traces back to its outcome, proxy, source, quantity and adjustments, so the value reported through Connect is calculated consistently, whoever is doing the reporting, and can stand up to scrutiny from auditors, members and boards.
How Connect compares to the SVE Platform
| SVE Platform | SVE Connect | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Organisations measuring their own projects and services | Commissioners, funders and grant-makers overseeing delivery by others |
| Typical user | Impact, community investment and delivery teams | Procurement, commissioning and grant management teams |
| Scope | Individual projects and programmes | Whole portfolios of contracts, grants and funded projects |
| Reporting flow | You measure and report your own work | Suppliers and delivery partners report to you through the platform |
| Methodology | SVI-accredited SROI with 650+ research-backed proxies | The same, applied consistently across every partner |
| Assurance | Optional via SVE Assured | Optional via SVE Assured |
Already in use
Connect launches with organisations including Leeds City Council, YPO and East Riding of Yorkshire Council using the Social Value Engine across their portfolios.
"We noticed a discrepancy between the expected and actual social impacts of our activities. The Social Value Engine's hands-on methodology has enabled us to take firmer control of our social value outcomes."
Sasha Walton, Social Value Delivery Manager at Leeds City Council
Read the Leeds City Council case study.
A webinar walking through the platform is planned for later this summer, with details to follow. To see Connect in action now, book a demo.
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SVE Connect is a social value portfolio management product from the Social Value Engine. It lets commissioners, funders and grant-makers set consistent outcome expectations, invite suppliers and delivery partners to report through the platform, and understand the social value created across a whole portfolio of contracts, grants and funded projects.
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