The Social Value team engage with clients and their local communities to identify their priority areas

Social Value is the ‘catch-all’ term used to describe the positive impacts an organisation or project can make to the community they are operating within - these can be social, economic, or environmental.

Some highlights of our work

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Supporting Care Leavers

Over the past few months, the Social Value team has partnered with a range of government and community institutions to provide tailored and...

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The Kickstart Scheme

In late 2020 the Chancellor announced the creation of the government Kickstart scheme, meaning that funding would be made available...

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Employability Workshops 

Employability Workshops have been the mainstay of many of Matrix’s Social Value contributions throughout the department’s history. Recently...

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Meet the Team

sgSiobhan Goss

Regeneration Manager

For more than 3 years, Siobhan has been working in partnership with local authority clients to add Social Value to our contracts across London and beyond.

ahAlasdair Heselgrave

Regeneration Officer

With a background in the education and hospitality sectors, Alasdair has worked at Matrix since February of 2021, helping to support, design and provide Social Value projects for a range of clients.

 

How do we create community-centred Social Value?

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Step 1:

We work with our clients to identify their community's priorities and build a Social Value Action Plan to reflect this. 

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Step 2:

We identify partner organisations to work with including schools, community centres and charities.

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Step 3:

We develop a range of initiatives from CV writing workshops to planting community gardens.

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