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We help businesses deliver meaningful social value in the most effective and impactful way.
Embedding social value into business operations is not just a legal obligation in the UK – it’s a social imperative.
Social Value Services
We work with you to integrate social value across your practices and supply chain, going beyond compliance to create genuine, measurable impact that benefits the communities and environments where you operate.
Delivering social value isn’t easy – it requires time, expertise, strong networks, and resources. That’s where Cyd comes in. We simplify the process, reduce the burden, and help you deliver lasting impact without reinventing the wheel for every project.
Better business, brighter communities
Understanding Your Communities
By exploring local context – demographics, deprivation levels, existing resources, and partnership opportunities – Cyd support you to direct your social value budget where it matters most. This ensures every pound delivers lasting, measurable change.
Embedding Social Value In Procurement
UK procurement rules require social value to make up 10% of central government tenders – a powerful opportunity for both buyers and bidders to drive real impact through their work.
At Cyd, we help organisations put social value at the centre of procurement – shaping strong plans, aligning with communities, and evaluating bids to meet the latest rules. For bidders, we offer practical support to craft proposals that are competitive, meaningful, and deliverable – helping you stand out for the right reasons.
For those bidding on contracts, we provide hands-on support to develop social value proposals that are not only competitive, but meaningful and achievable.
Delivering The Most Impactful Social Value Plan
At Cyd, we help businesses build the networks they need to deliver truly effective social value plans. From planning to implementation, we support the development of impactful, measurable programmes – making it easy to track progress and clearly demonstrate the value being created.
Measuring Your Impact
Understanding the true impact of your social value plan can be complex – but it’s essential. At Cyd, we help you go beyond simply tracking inputs to genuinely measuring the difference you’re making.
We combine proxy values with both qualitative and quantitative metrics to give you a full picture of your impact – helping you clearly demonstrate the value you’re delivering. With Cyd, you’ll get access to impacting reporting software to:
Share live progress with stakeholders
Monitor project deliverables in real time
Securely store and manage evidence
Understanding the true impact of your social value plan can be complex – but it’s essential. At Cyd, we help you go beyond simply tracking inputs to genuinely measuring the difference you’re making.
Verifying and Reporting Your Impact
At Cyd, we offer social value audit services to independently verify the impact delivered through your social value plans. Our audits provide third-party assurance, giving you confidence in your reporting without the need to sift through mountains of data.
What you get:
- Independent assurance: Confidence in your data for both reporting and analysis.
- Summary Report: Clear, concise overview of achievements
- Strategy & framework alignment:Reports aligned to your corporate strategy and external frameworks (e.g. TOMs, UNSDGs, Welsh Wellbeing for Future Generations Act), depending on what matters most to your stakeholders
- Case Studies: Shareable examples of stakeholders
- Recommendations: Practical steps to maximise future impact
Why Choose Cyd Innovation as your Social Value Manager?
Expertise
Access trusted experts in social impact delivery and evaluation—ready to help you create measurable change
Custom Solutions
We tailor our services to your unique context and goals.
Impactful Results
Real social value starts with process: better practice = bigger impact
Knowledge Hub
What is social value
Social value is the positive impact an organisation creates for people, communities, and the environment – beyond financial profit – through its activities, services, and investments.
While the concept of business’s having a responsibility beyond just maximising profit has been around for a long time, the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 enshrined this in UK law for the first time. It requires public bodies to consider how the services they procure can deliver wider social, economic, and environmental benefits for their communities.
Policy procurement Note (PPN) 06/20 took this one step further, mandating a minimum of 10% weighting for social value in central government tenders. Now, with PPN 002 extending this scope further from October 2025, it’s clear that social value isn’t going anywhere.
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