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Hello and welcome to the Greater Manchester Social Value Network (GMSVN) website

If you’re here because you want to know more about social value, how you can introduce or embed social value in your organisation or group and/or you want to know what’s happening across Greater Manchester, you’re in the right place. The good news is that there is a lot of fantastic work going on in social value in GM.

The aim of the GMSVN is to encourage organisations in every sector to seek relevant social, environmental and economic value from everything they do. This includes service delivery, commissioning and procurement. Social value considers more than just the financial transactions and includes: happiness; wellbeing; health; inclusion; empowerment; poverty; environment.

The Network aims to provide an opportunity for people to learn, share and deliver more social value.

Purpose

The core purpose of the Greater Manchester Social Value Network (GMSVN) is to influence stakeholders, policy and strategy at the Greater Manchester level around social value. The steering group of GMSVN is made up of activists who want to ensure that all intervention whether that be through the behaviour of business, the devolution agenda, commissioning and procurement, or the delivery of projects and services, brings maximum social value.

The GMSVN vision is;

To encourage organisations in every sector to seek relevant social, environmental and economic value from everything they do, including service delivery, commissioning and procurement. Social value considers more than just the financial transaction and includes: happiness; wellbeing; health; inclusion; empowerment; poverty; environment.

Greater Manchester Social Value Network is supported by Macc (Manchester’s infrastructure support organisation for the VCSE sector). Macc has hosted GMSVN since its development and continues to provide support, resources and ideas as Macc sees the significant benefit that the work of the GMSVN brings to cross-sector organisations across Greater Manchester.