Lauren Bailey
Head of Social Value
Ridge and Partners LLP
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Ridge and Partners LLP
Paula Carroll
Insights & Impact Department Manager
LFC Foundation
Dr Paula Carroll worked for 17 years in secure mental health settings in the NHS undertaking public health and research roles.
Paula has a PhD from the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Medicine, Edge Hill University and is a Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Paula is a current PhD supervisor for Liverpool John Moores University and an Honorary Research Fellow at Edge Hill University.
Paula’s current role as Insights and Impact Department Manager for the LFC Foundation (Liverpool Football Club’s Official Charity) looks to embed evidence-based practice, measure what is important and demonstrate impact both locally and internationally.
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LFC Foundation
Zoe Colosimo
Chief Operating Officer
Neighbourly
Zoe is a founding member and the Chief Operating Officer at Neighbourly, an organisation launched in 2014 with the mission to help companies bring their brand purpose to life. Neighbourly enables businesses to make meaningful contributions to the local communities they serve through volunteer time, grants, and surplus products. Over the past decade, Neighbourly has built a community of over 35,000 local causes and 80 corporate entities, collectively delivering more than £780 million in social value across the UK.
Zoe’s motivation is rooted in the belief that sustainable communities are built through local relationships, and that good corporate citizenship is essential to any company’s success.
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Neighbourly
John Cotton
Leader of the Council
Birmingham City Council
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Leader of the Council
Birmingham City Council
Danielle Aberg
Head of Social Value
Thrive
Danielle brings 19 years of expertise in Social Sustainability, beginning her journey in grassroots youth and community development before rising to join Thrive as Head of Social Value and leading on Social Value strategy across all business areas. Thrive is a secure and robust online software platform for reporting on social value and impact, supported by a wealth of knowledge and wrap-around consultancy services.
As a dynamic and results-oriented leader, Danielle has a proven track record of driving responsible business practices that deliver measurable impact. In 2023, she led BAM UK & Ireland to generate £260 million in verified Social Value. Her systems-thinking approach and deep understanding of people and place ensure social sustainability is seamlessly integrated into client programmes, creating sustainable placemaking while maintaining precision and efficiency, even in the most complex initiatives.
Danielle is recognised as a thought leader in social sustainability, frequently contributing to industry discourse through speaking engagements and publications. She anticipates emerging trends, ensuring her strategies position clients as leaders in responsible business. Her collaborative style and expertise in stakeholder engagement have fostered strong partnerships across sectors, driving meaningful, long-term change.
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Thrive
Simon Godfrey
Director of Government Relations
BT
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Director of Government Relations
BT
Fran Boorman
Founder
Goal 17
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Goal 17
Cara Mulholland
Lecturer in Operations and Project Management
Manchester Metropolitan University
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Lecturer in Operations and Project Management
Manchester Metropolitan University
Jan Brown
Senior lecturer: Social-ecological ecosystems researcher and practitioner
Liverpool John Moores University
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Senior lecturer: Social-ecological ecosystems researcher and practitioner
Liverpool John Moores University
Alison Truelove
Director, Centre for Innovation in Business Education
University of Exeter
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Director, Centre for Innovation in Business Education
University of Exeter
Julia Jolley
Associate Director
Osborne Clarke LLP
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Associate Director
Osborne Clarke LLP
Kieran Ronnie
Head of Social Value, Europe
AECOM
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Head of Social Value, Europe
AECOM
Lucille Watkins-Brazier
Head of Social Value
LendLease
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LendLease
Jimmy Cockerton
CEO & Founder
Impact Advantage
Jimmy is the CEO and founder of Impact Advantage, a company dedicated to enabling companies, NGOs and governments to measure and enhance their social impact through advanced impact economics.
In his role as Head of Impact at Microsoft it was his job to earn Microsoft the right to operate in the UK. This role helped him see the limitations of traditional 'one size fits all' proxy values. This inspired Jimmy to develop impact.Ai, an impact platform that evaluates outcomes and impacts, rather than merely focusing on outputs. impact.Ai measures an organisation's environmental, employee, social, and economic impact in the UK and globally.
With over two decades of experience in both public and private sectors, Jimmy offers a unique perspective on impact measurement. He champions innovation to address social challenges and serves as a Venture Partner at Conduit Connect, a sustainability impact investment fund. Previously, Jimmy led Microsoft's sustainability impact startup programs and was a director at Impact X Capital, investing in underrepresented founders.
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Impact Advantage
Holly Onstenk
Social Value Consultant
CHY Consulting
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CHY Consulting
Penny Anderson
Head of Social Value
Akerlof
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Akerlof
Sharon Clancy
Associate Professor
University of Nottingham
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Associate Professor
University of Nottingham
Victoria Showunmi
Associate Professor
UCL
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Associate Professor
UCL
Christopher Jones
Advocacy Officer
The Institute for Social Value
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The Institute for Social Value
Jeremy Galpin
Social Value Consultancy Lead
Costain Group PLC
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Social Value Consultancy Lead
Costain Group PLC
Lindsay Maartens
Social Value Manager
Stepnell
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Stepnell
Chaman Lal
Deputy Lord Mayor
Birmingham City Council
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Deputy Lord Mayor
Birmingham City Council
Lauren Jones
Business Development Director
The Institute for Social Value
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Business Development Director
The Institute for Social Value
Eimear Davis
Business Services Director
The Institute for Social Value
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The Institute for Social Value
Jamie Reed
Director of Socio-Economics
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
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Director of Socio-Economics
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
Richard Lee-Wright
Chief Executive Officer
Unity Insights
Richard has a background in research, having previously studied Law as an LLB, before completing a Masters in Health Informatics at UCL, and a PG Cert at Manchester University in Leadership and Service Improvement in health.
Having worked previously in the private sector, Richard moved to the NHS in 2011, where his experience centred on high value commissioning and transformational change for several years. He then moved into supporting the acceleration of research-based spread and adoption of innovation at scale, specialising in real-world evaluation delivery at pace to the NHS at a local and national level. Additionally, Richard has ensured his organisation always applies a health inequality and social value lenses to the evaluation and research undertaken.
His focus has always been around utilising analytics and improvement science to demonstrate impact and value, enabling better research based, well-evidenced decision making to impact change. Richard now leads a social enterprise that champions this ambition and aims to improve all patient lives through robust insights derived through real-world research, evaluation, and analysis.
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Unity Insights
Shah Begum
Head of Outreach and Social Value
United by 2022
Shah Begum is Head of Outreach and Social Value at United By 2022 Charity – the official legacy charity of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, and is a secondee from international law firm Gowling WLG (UK) LLP.
The Games was the first major sporting event to measure its social value return on investment. It brought together the private, public and third sector to form ground breaking new collaborations and delivered over £300m in social value.
Shah will share the 5 step model to making social value a success, and the charity’s mission to embed social value within the West Midlands and make it an exemplar model for social value done well.
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United by 2022
Patrick de Vos
Social Value and Outreach Coordinator
United by 2022
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United by 2022
Claire Westcott
Postgraduate Researcher & Graduate Teaching Fellow, Chair of the Centre for Sustainable Business Advisory Board
University of Liverpool Management School
Clare Westcott is a PhD researcher at the University of Liverpool, where she focuses on the challenges that suppliers face in delivering social value through public procurement. A Chartered Accountant by profession, Clare has held senior management roles in Finance and HR at Eli Lilly & Co. Ltd and Novartis. She also brings public sector experience as a former non-executive director at Southport & Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust. Her research interests lie at the intersection of profit and purpose, particularly the challenges posed by prevailing governance systems, if we are to create sustainable solutions for the future.
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Postgraduate Researcher & Graduate Teaching Fellow, Chair of the Centre for Sustainable Business Advisory Board
University of Liverpool Management School
Tiia Sammallahti
CEO/Founder
whatimpact
Tiia Sammallahti is the CEO & founder of whatimpact.com, the UK’s leading social value matchmaking & management platform. whatimpact.com increases efficiency in social value partnerships between VCSEs and companies by reducing the cost and time spent on administrating locally relevant, tangible, and contract-specific social value. whatimpact also offers public sector social value brokerage and reporting solutions for procurement-related social value. In addition to running whatimpact, the tech start-up, Tiia is an active content writer and collaboration initiator in the social value industry.
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whatimpact
Andy Canniford
Chief Development Officer
catch22
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catch22
Phil Higham
Director
RealWorth
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Director
RealWorth
Oliver Kempton
Partner
Envoy Partnership
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Envoy Partnership
Sara Ottoway
Sustainability and Social Value Lead
Suez
Sarah is SUEZ’s Sustainability and Social Value Lead, and is responsible for informing, and enabling its triple bottom line approach, to help the business continue to improve its impact on people and the planet. She also contributes her 17 years’ experience in the sector to SUEZ’s policy and circular economy activities.
She is a Level 1 Associate Practitioner with Social Value UK, the chair of Environmental Services Association’s social value working group, and in both 2022 and 2023 was named one of the Resource “Hot 100” for moving the social value and sustainability agenda forward across the industry.
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Suez
Cara Kennelly
Social Value Manager
ISG
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ISG
Maya Patel
Graduate Social Value Researcher & Impact Analyst
Ridge and Partners
I am a Graduate Social Value Researcher and Impact Analyst at Ridge and Partners LLP, a multidiscipline built environment consultancy with 1200 people located at 13 offices across England. I have a keen interest in the field of social value, having been exposed to the specialism for over 12 months.
Though the social value discipline is maturing, and understanding is deepening amongst clients and service-providers alike, there remain many common challenges that specialists face, particularly in the delivery and measurement of tangible environmental outcomes at local and global level.
With the urgency of the climate crisis affecting us all and challenging sustainability and carbon reduction targets to be met, it is more important than ever for practitioners to collaborate in overcoming obstacles to the delivery of impactful environmental initiatives and their reliable transparent reporting.
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Graduate Social Value Researcher & Impact Analyst
Ridge and Partners
Liam Ronan-Chlond
Director of Strategic Partnerships
South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority
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Director of Strategic Partnerships
South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority
Isabelle Parasram
CEO
The Institute for Social Value
Isabelle is the CEO of The Institute for Social Value, the national network for those interested in social value and social impact. It works with its members, through its Social Value Principles, to achieve a broader definition of value within accounting so that decision-making adequately prioritises equality, environmental protection and wellbeing.
Through this role, she is building upon the political and public service legacy for which she was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List of 2022.
She advocated on democratic engagement and social justice as Vice President of The Liberal Democrats, as a member of its Federal Board and as Patron of a network for political donors. She is a past Parliamentary and London Assembly candidate.
She continues this work as a Board Director of a policy research forum and as a Trustee of its associated international think tank – The Paddy Ashdown Forum.
As a barrister, Isabelle worked nationally and internationally as the Head of a barristers’ chambers she founded in 2012. This followed a lengthy legal career in the public, private and charitable sectors, a significant part of which comprised her work for The Civil Service.
Her involvement in the field of education includes acting as a Trustee of educational charities and as a Governor of a state secondary school.
She graduated from King’s College London with an LLB (Hons) degree and was called to the Bar of England and Wales by The Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn. She also holds NVQ assessor and early years and adult education teaching qualifications.
On a personal level, Isabelle was born in East London to Indo-Caribbean ‘Windrush generation’ parents who came to the UK from Trinidad and Tobago.
She and her husband have four teenage children.
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The Institute for Social Value
Kate Gräfe
Senior Social Value Consultant
Samtaler
Kate has over 25 years of experience in procurement and contract management across both public and private sectors, including 12 years as the Chief Procurement Officer, initially at the London Borough of Ealing and then at Reading Council. Kate created and implemented the Social Value Policy at Reading, including working with local partners to link proposed social value delivery with need and support a business case for a local social value model. Since joining the Samtaler team, Kate has worked on social value bid responses for multi-million £GBP contracts to local and central government across a range of industries including tech, professional services and infrastructure. A passionate advocate of social value, Kate has provided practitioner input to a number of the National Audit Office Commercial Hub seminars and is a trustee for Graft Thames Valley, a micro-charity that aims to eradicate barriers to employment and training for disabled, neurodiverse and other communities for which a standard, generic approach does not work.
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Samtaler
Jacob Hill
Managing Director
Offploy
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Offploy
Jeremy Wyatt
Director & Chair
Hall Aitken
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Director & Chair
Hall Aitken
Mary-Kathryn Adams
Chief Executive
Simetrica-Jacobs
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Chief Executive
Simetrica-Jacobs
Sarah Rial
Social Outcomes, Equity and Health Lead
Jacobs
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Social Outcomes, Equity and Health Lead
Jacobs
Eleri Lloyd-Roberts
Social Value Manager
Mantell Gwynedd
Eleri’s background is working with communities to encourage change and development. Eleri is an Advanced Practitioner and Accredited Trainer with Social Value International and has worked with many organisations across Wales and beyond to help them to measure, manage and maximise their social value. She is the Vice Chair of the North Wales Social Value Forum aimed to shape the regional delivery of social value and share best practice. Social Value Cymru also coordinates the North Wales Social Value Network which brings together members from all sectors to learn and encourage progress when it comes to the social value movement in Wales.
Social Value Cymru is a part of Mantell Gwynedd which supports the Third Sector in Gwynedd. Mantell Gwynedd is also a Social Value Partner to Social Value UK and has achieved the Level 2 Social Value Management Certificate.
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Social Value Manager
Mantell Gwynedd
Sarah Stone
Founder & Director
Samtaler
Sarah is the founder of Social Value Agency Samtaler and the host of the social value podcast “Let’s Talk Social Value.” She is passionate about bringing the public, private and third sectors together to create social value and has extensive experience in social value design and delivery across multi-sectors and consults with many blue-chip corporations and procurers across the UK. Sarah began working in social and sustainable procurement in Scotland in 2016 to support public sector bodies to implement the requirements of the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act. She founded Samtaler in 2017 and in 2019 created Scotland’s first community benefit wish list for Perth & Kinross Council. The concept won a prestigious GO Award and has since been adopted by Local Authorities across Scotland and the UK.
Before founding Samtaler, Sarah spent over a decade working in the field of government, policy making and political communication working for David Cameron from 2006 – 2012; coordinating the production of the Conservative Party's 2010 General Election Manifesto and serving in the Coalition Government as Downing Street External Relations Adviser. On moving to Scotland in 2014 she worked as Stakeholder Engagement Advisor to the Better Together campaign during the Scottish Independence Referendum and consulted for Ruth Davidson during the 2015 and 2017 General Elections and 2016 Scottish Parliamentary election campaigns.
She also co-founded and ran a public affairs social enterprise, McNeill & Stone, which used the profits from its corporate work to provide free professional public affairs services to community groups and grassroot campaigners in Scotland. She ran the company with her co-founder, Scottish Labour's Pauline McNeill MSP, until Pauline's re-election to the Scottish Parliament in 2016.
Sarah is a former community councillor and the founder of the Military Coworking Network, a community group for non-serving members of the military community. In addition, she is a trustee and adviser to several military charities and social enterprises.
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Founder & Director
Samtaler
Hana Kapetanovic
Lead Researcher
Demos
Hana is a Lead Researcher at the UK's leading cross-party think tank Demos. Her research has a strong focus on putting people at the heart of the policy making process, and building trust in politics. As part of Demos' mission to build a Citizen Economy, where people, businesses, charities and government work together to achieve good growth, Hana recently authored Taming the Wild West, in partnership with GS1 UK. The report sets out a new vision for social value that aims to rebuild trust in the social value agenda, and harness the opportunities that technology can unlock.
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Lead Researcher
Demos
Tumi Hawkins
Lead Cabinet Member for Planning Policy & Development Management
South Cambridgeshire District Council
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Lead Cabinet Member for Planning Policy & Development Management
South Cambridgeshire District Council
Ben Carpenter
Chief Executive
Social Value International
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Chief Executive
Social Value International
Charlotte Turner
Founder Director
Bean Research
Charlotte is a researcher with 30 years experience in this space, a regular speaker and adviser on social impact & value, the Founder of Bean Research which works with charities, funders and corporates to help measure and create social value. Charlotte is also the Social Impact lead at Cranfield School of Management, a Level 3 Advanced Social Value Practitioner a Fellow of the Institute for Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability, a Life Fellow of the RSA and a mother of two.
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Founder Director
Bean Research
