Helping you understand what good social value in business looks like and how to deliver it.

Curious how your organisation measures up?
Take our quick social value assessment to find out

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Social value is no longer a tick box exercise

For social value in business to work, it must be intrinsic to everything you do but very few organisations know what ‘good’ social value looks like or have the internal resources or the specialist expertise to achieve their ambitions.

You’re not alone. Most of our clients feel this way before they partner with us, regardless of their understanding of social value. 

With social value questions in most public sector bids, the risks of not doing anything are significant, from loss of contracts and reputational damage to escalating costs and poor performance. 

Our team takes the pressure off your staff and gives your business the resources you need whenever you need them.

Samtaler understands social value in business. We’ve been at the forefront of the sector for seven years.

We work with some of the world’s largest companies, and our reputation has grown because we consistently deliver results. 

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What sets us apart?

  • Our sector knowledge - We know what policy makers want, and communities need, and can help you join the dots.

  • Our unique approach - By embedding ourselves in your team and acting as a trusted partner, we work hard to make social value easy for you.

  • Creative collaboration - We make you think creatively and shift your belief as to what social value can mean for your business.

  • The results we get – 95% of those we work with see improved results in their social value tenders and our average social value score is 8-10.

Our Social Value Services

  • BID WRITING AND DESIGN

    • Social value solution design

    • Social value response writing

    • Supply chain auditing & diversity

    • Social Value response libraries & social value ideation

    BID WRITING

  • SOCIAL VALUE DELIVERY

    • Delivery of social value commitments

    • Stakeholder engagement and community needs analysis

    • Social value monitoring & reporting

    • Inhouse support for project teams

    DELIVERY

  • SOCIAL VALUE STRATEGY

    • Social value strategy development and design

    • Social value policy development

    • Stakeholder mapping and engagement planning

    • Customer, market and competitor analysis

    STRATEGY

Social Value Assessment

Curious how your organisation measures up?

Take our quick, no-obligation assessment to uncover opportunities to strengthen your social value strategy. In just a few minutes, you’ll get insights into how you're doing across key areas like strategy, practice, resourcing, and procurement and where there’s room to grow.

Helping our client Vattenfall
find their social value ‘sweet spot’

Meet Berry Jordan, Business and Community Investment Advisor at Vattenfall, who shares her working experience with Samtaler. We fundamentally changed their approach to social value, enabling them to generate value at every opportunity to align with their strategic aims and core values.

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Our Clients

The social value success plan

Number one step of the Social Value success plan

DISCOVER

Book a free discovery call to work out where you are in your social value journey and what you need to move forward.

Number two step of the Social Value success plan

PLAN

We design a plan for you. Providing recommendations to solve your short and long-term social value needs and help you deliver them.

Number three step of the Social Value success plan

ACTION

With an agreed scope of work, outputs and timeline of activity and regular updates, you will start seeing the benefit of our support immediately.

Testimonials

  • “I just wanted to let you know that I have learned so much from you and have managed to pull of a 100% score on all three questions on a framework bid all on my own! Thanks to you!”

  • “Many thanks to the Samtaler team for making the whole experience a delight from end to end. We feel much more confident going forward about our own capabilities and the areas that need some attention. Your enthusiasm, professionalism and unwavering support thought-out has been a godsend. Survey complete 5* would definitely recommend!”

  • “You've made me realise social value is an art not a science”

  • “Just to say again what a pleasure it was working with you. The session was very well received from the group I was sitting within – very helpful content and well delivered. Thanks so much for working with us to get it right, and for the huge efforts made in producing the guide, which has come out fantastic.”

  • “You've really elevated our social value offering and taken it to a whole new level”

  • “Your work has totally transformed the way we have been thinking about [social value]…It’s a complete step change for us in the UK and abroad. A lot will happen due to your work and input - that is because you elegantly and carefully helped us prepare for a chance approach and gave us one we could deliver.”

  • “Thank you for a great presentation earlier today.  It was incredibly useful, and you have really driven home what we do know about ourselves and where we have some gaps in our knowledge and offering and where we can improve and change for the better around social value. We were blown away with the level of detail you got to and the new social value tool looks to be just what we need.”

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At Samtaler, we understand the importance of your commitment. 

You're here because you care about your impact on society and want to be better. 
 We want you to succeed and are here to give you the skill, strategy and support you need.

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