Social Value’s Moment of Truth

Social Value’s Moment of Truth: Validation, Verification and the Road to Audit

The S is becoming the new E. Social value is heading toward audit — and most organisations’ data isn’t ready. Join us on 27 May to find out what to do about it.

Social value is now weighted in procurement, scrutinised by investors, and cited at ministerial level. Yet most of it is still collected through spreadsheets, unchecked entries, and retrospective reviews months after the fact — processes that wouldn’t pass muster for any other kind of formal reporting.

The direction of travel is clear. Social value is following the same path environmental reporting took, and it’s moving faster. Independent verification is coming. Audit is coming. The question is no longer whether, but when.

In this 60-minute conversation, Thrive’s Benjamin Fellowes (Director of Product & Innovation) and Michael Bole (Product Lead) will walk through what the shift toward assurance means in practice — and, more importantly, what you can do about it now.

What You’ll Walk Away With

• A self-assessment | how to tell whether your current social value data would survive audit-level scrutiny
• A practical playbook | the steps to get your house in order now, before verification and audit arrive
• A risk lens | a framework for understanding what unvalidated data actually puts at stake for your bids, contracts, reputation, and Cabinet Office returns

Plus a look at what real-time validation looks like in practice, and where the assurance journey goes next.

Who Should Attend

Social value, sustainability, and ESG leads. Public sector commercial teams. Bid and proposal directors. Anyone responsible for the integrity of social value data inside their organisation — or the consequences of it.

Register free