Iarnród Éireann Irish Rail is delivering a record investment programme: new fleets, electrification and the DART+ expansion of the Dublin network. The company has decided this spending should do more than build a railway, embedding social value into procurement so...
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How NewRiver REIT built investor-ready social impact evidence
NewRiver REIT knew its shopping centres created real social value in their communities. What it lacked was a way to measure that impact with the same discipline it brings to its financial and environmental reporting. Here is how the retail REIT built a defensible...
How FCC Environment Uses Thrive to Evidence the Social Value in Waste
Waste and resource management may not be the first sector people associate with major social value creation. Yet these essential services touch every household and business in the UK. As recent events in Birmingham have shown, society feels the impact...
A Day in the Life of a Social Value Professional
“Social Value professional” is a relatively new career path, but one that’s becoming more and more attractive to a generation of workforce entrants that wants to work for companies that do good in the world. But what exactly do today’s Social Value leaders do...
Tilbury Douglas: Why This Strategic Supplier Chose Thrive To Enable Their Social Value
Strategic supplier Tilbury Douglas is on a fast-paced social value journey. This February saw the building, infrastructure, engineering and fit-out group launch its first environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategy, “Building a better future together” - tying...
From Beginner to Award-Winner: Dimensions Care’s Social Value Journey
Dimensions Care has had a meteoric social value journey so far. From taking the first steps in early 2023, the Midlands-based children’s residential care provider celebrated business manager Ruth Scalise winning the Social Value Leader Award at the Social Care...
How to Supercharge Employee Volunteering Engagement – Taking Inspiration from Coventry Building Society
Improve Employee Volunteering with 5 key steps... A question we’re often asked is this: “how can I get more of my team engaged with volunteering efforts?” Fortunately, Thrive works alongside many companies that have solved this challenge and are regularly hitting...
Hippo: A Technology Social Value Success Story
Hippo is a full-service digital consultancy that works extensively with central government and its agencies, as well as the private sector. The company has a team of more than 500 specialists, working on scaling digital delivery and transformation. And when Hippo...
How to implement social value across your business – and get everyone on board
Embedding social value in your organisation requires involving everyone—from the boardroom to frontline staff. However, transforming habits when social value hasn't been a business priority can be quite challenging. We understand that achieving this integration can be...
How Thrive Makes Social Value Report Creation Simple: A Chat with Mulalley
We’re well into the second decade of the social value era. And while methodologies for measuring environmental performance have a long pedigree, many businesses still find it much harder to treat the “S” and the “G” in “ESG” - social and governance criteria - in a...
“It takes a village”: how one company is bringing clients and suppliers along on their social value journey
Kinovo plc have worked hard to build its social value offering over the last three years, and now they get to bring their stakeholders along for the ride. Their smaller partners and suppliers are benefiting from their guidance – and their more social value-savvy...
Increasing your social value: how one company continues to drive positive change
The days of CSR are long behind us and social value expectations have matured. What measures can organisations that already understand social value put in place to stay ahead of the game?Octavius Infrastructure (Octavius) prioritised the development of a powerful...
How Laing O’Rourke have used the Impact Evaluation Standard to demonstrate ROI to clients
Social value monitoring and measurement is a requirement for any organisation bidding for contracts within the public sector. But can it be useful outside the bid process too? Engineering and construction company Laing O’Rourke think so. Its team have been...
How social value reporting gives one IT company a commercial edge
Converge Technology Solutions has expanded social value reporting to encompass all parts of the business – and it gives the IT company a competitive edge. The UK IT sector is still a relative newcomer to social value, but that didn’t stop trailblazers at Converge...
Casey: Getting Strategic About Social Value
What happens when you’re already delivering social impact as a business but need to get better at reporting on and proving it? When social value legislation was introduced, community-spirited construction company The Casey Group Ltd (Casey) needed to...














