Social Innovation. Shared Value.
Real Impact.
We help businesses understand the social challenges they have the solutions for.
Social Value is Shared Value.
The new measurement for success.
The business case for social value is stronger than ever. The human case for it has never been starker.
Integrating it well, and as early as possible, will help you:
Attract talent and build your team
Find your competitive edge
Keep you innovating
Appeal to investors and clients
Futureproof your business.
Government legislation around social value has changed.
From January 1st 2021, all public procurement over £20million is now required to explicitly evaluate social value, qualitatively as well as quantitatively. This is just the beginning of the new way we approach the Why of what we do.
How does your business build impact measurement alongside measuring profit?
How do you tell your stories in your bids and communications?
How do you connect with all your stakeholders to understand what fulfillment means for them all?
Working with businesses to dig deeper into their purpose, we’re uncovering opportunities for co-creation: bringing business and community together to deliver long-term social value.
Perspectives not Prescriptives
Designed for the built environment: for developers, contractors and communities.
Vision.
Perspectives not prescriptives.
The most important Outcome for real social impact is a change in the balance of power.
The way to achieve this is through co-creation. To ensure that those who will be impacted by development are fully integrated in the process. This is how the balance of power is altered because perspectives now guide the decision-making process rather than prescriptives.
We are a consultancy founded with a dual social impact purpose;
To help the private sector understand the social challenges they have the solutions for;
To work with civic, community and grassroots organisations to help them understand how they can maximise the social value offering from the private sector.
Working with businesses to dig deeper into their purpose and with community organisations to amplify their voice we bridge the gap to ensure social value innovations provide the biggest impact.
Meet the team.
Sarah Lambshead
With over 15 years in the construction sector and a passion for people and the communities we live in, I help built environment businesses find the strategic vision for their purpose beyond profit.
Working together, we can explore, embed, measure and evolve your approach to social value and the impact you can have, in innovative ways that align with your values and identity.
Our approach is designed to progressively launch more ambitious ways of achieving meaningful, purposeful, scalable social value in the communities in which you and your clients build.
Sarah Birkby
With over 16 years experience in architectural marketing and business development, I’m able to help construction professionals communicate effectively with clients and end-users.
My role is both strategic and creative: finding new ways to listen and communicate - in words and pictures - in the context of procurement, community engagement, project consultation and post-completion reporting.
At S2, we help businesses measure what matters most: tapping into the skills, vision and purpose at the core of each organisation, elevating your strategy from simple compliance to delivering beneficial change.
