Over 75% of your company’s worth is invisible. Can you prove it’s there?

Why measure social value?

Over 75% of a company’s worth is intangible: value that goes beyond profit. But can you prove it’s there?

Your business is already creating social value. The question is whether you can see it, show it, and improve it.

Picture Company A. It runs regular volunteering days: the calendar is full, the social posts look good, the team feels proud. But when the year ends, it still can’t say which activities mattered most, who benefited, or whether the effort matched the outcome. The activity is visible. The value is not.

Now picture Company B. It starts with a simple social value baseline, looking at what it already contributes, time, money, local spend, employee engagement, internships, partnerships, and then asks a sharper question: what difference is this making, in this place, for these people? That shift doesn’t just improve reporting. It improves decision-making.

What is a Social Value Footprint?

A Social Value Footprint measures the real financial value of your social impact across your entire organisation, through things like job creation, skills and training, employee wellbeing, local investment, charitable giving and volunteering. From the people you employ to the communities you support, it turns your good work into a credible, monetised figure that stakeholders, clients and commissioners will trust, and shows where you could create more.

Social value is being created in your business every day, but without a measurement framework it stays intangible, invisible and impossible to improve. A monetised baseline changes that: a credible starting point, the ability to set meaningful targets, and the insight to direct resource where it creates the most value, turning good intentions into a strategy you can track, report and build on year after year. It works best paired with local insight and lived experience, because social value is not just about what you do, but how it lands, and what counts as meaningful varies by community, context and stakeholder priority.

The benefits

A Social Value Footprint helps you:

• Win more contracts: social value is now mandatory in UK public procurement, and a credible figure strengthens every bid.
• Satisfy ESG requirements: meet investor, lender and reporting obligations.
• Stand out from competitors: prove your impact with a certified £ figure, not good intentions.
• Attract and retain talent: purpose-driven employees want to see the numbers, not just the activity.
• Strengthen stakeholder trust: give clients and communities evidence, not promises.
• Plan and improve strategically: set meaningful targets, track year-on-year progress, and direct resource where it creates the most value.
• Future-proof your business: expectations from clients, regulators and investors are only going one way. Measuring now puts you ahead of the curve, not scrambling to catch up when it becomes a requirement.

Ready to see your social value more clearly?

Your Social Value Footprint is part of our JustOne Planet Certification, giving you a certified, credible figure you can put in front of clients, investors and communities, and use to shape strategy, bids and reporting. If you’d like to see what that would look like for your organisation, let’s talk: Virginia.Schuldt@justone.uk