Social Impact
Game changing social impacts
To us, it is all about the impacts and outcomes of our training. It’s about understanding how our delivery impacts our learners both in terms of new skills and qualifications, but also improved career prospects. To us it’s about the long-term changes we have on the lives of our learners, and how these drive social mobility.
This set of social accounts, which were independently conducted and verified by The Connectives, were analysed during the latter stages of the global pandemic, during a time where much of our delivery had shifted online, but digital illiteracy and poverty were prominent barriers for some individuals looking to access our training. Despite this challenge, we still supported 529 individuals to access our fully-funded training in the Liverpool City Region. We also expanded our prison education provision to enable us to support more inmates across more prisons nationally.
This activity helped to generate the social impacts below:
More than just numbers
To gain a better understanding as to the impacts we have had, The Connectives followed the Social Audit Network process of social accounting as a method of social impact assessment. This included following a process of qualitative and quantitative data collection to assess whether we have had an impact on the lives of learners, customers, and staff.
Such data was gathered from 1-2-1 interviews, case studies and business performance reports. The report also utilises the Social Return on Investment methodology introducing financial proxies to enumerate the social value derived from the collective group activity. These approaches were selected because we believe that in combination these methods:
- Capture quantitative and qualitative data to provide narrative and economic measures appealing to a mixed audience.
- Hear the voice of the person served and the partners in delivery.
- Consider the materiality of evidence – what matters most when considering the impact of each subsidiary.
- Have credibility in a crowded marketplace – secured
- from international recognition of the Social Audit
- Network accreditation.
- Be based upon clear and transparent principles.
Part of the bigger picture
We are part of The Progress Group, a family of education and training organisations who collectively work to change lives through the power of education and training. Together, we are transforming lives and are incredibly proud of the lasting impacts we are having on the lives of those we work with, and society as a whole.
As a group of businesses we contributed to a combined social value of £38,102,368, over £16,000,000 in savings to the public purse and a social value of £4.09 for every £1 spent on our services across our Group.
Collectively we are changing lives through the power of education and training.
Discover more about our Group and impacts here
