Social Return on Investment

Do you know what the broader effects of your organisation’s work are, not just your bottom line – but the wider effects on society, community and planet? If you don’t know, how can you tell funders what kind of impact you are having?

+ Case Study: Enterprising Coventry + Case Study: Prince's Trust
To meet the growing need to measure the social and environmental, as well as the economic, impact of any organisation’s activities, nef consulting offers full SROI evaluation for organisations and funding bodies.

The tool – SROI (Social Return on Investment) - helps organisations measure the true impact of their activities. It also means they can get a better understanding of the processes that affect their stakeholders. It will also allow funders to compare competing requests for investment funding more accurately.

Triple bottom-line measurement: This is a measurement tool for comparing not only the economic costs and benefits of an organisation or a potential investment, but also its social and environmental costs and benefits.

Ratio: The SROI ratio is a powerful, simple and clear indicator of the full return an organisation makes to the stakeholders it affects through its operations.

Consistency: It uses a tried and tested methodology, based on solid principles, which allows you to compare different investment opportunities.

Change management: SROI means engaging with stakeholders so that you can build a clear understanding of your organisation’s impacts. This part of the process allows you to understand better the impact you have, and how you might need to change.

Sustainability: It means you can look more closely at the sustainability of your existing operations or your planned investments by identifying and measuring the full costs and benefits.

Proving and improving: By making stakeholders central to the process, SROI can uncover a detailed story about where your organisation is creating value and how it can maximise the benefits it delivers to its stakeholders.

Find out more in the brochure: (download)