# Social impact tool records over £50 million in social value in 2018 - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/01/25/social-impact-tool-records-50m-social-value-2018/ - Published: 2019-01-25T08:00:41+00:00 - Author: Melanie May **A bespoke social value reporting tool to track and record the value of organisations’ social value efforts has measured an impact of over £50 million for clients spanning law, construction, transport services and housing providers.** [Impact](https://impactreporting.co.uk/) was created and built in-house by [Reason Digital](https://reasondigital.com/), a social enterprise specialising in working exclusively with pro-social organisations, after three years of research and development, The web-based social value reporting tool streamlines how companies can capture and monitor business processes, assets or any organisational activity that has a social or environmental benefit and produces real-time reports on its impact. This process is completely automated and converts activity into meaningful social value outcomes. ## Advertisement [⌊Posthub advert. You create the campaign. We'll handle the postal journey. Get started at post-hub.co.uk.⌉](https://fundraising.co.uk/ads/posthub-20261007-300x250/) Over the course of 2018, Impact has been used by businesses including DWF Law, Places for People, and One Manchester, and charities such as [Breast Cancer Care](https://www.breastcancercare.org.uk/) and NHS volunteering hub Helpforce. It has also been adapted for collecting a wide range of evaluation data for New Philanthropy Capital. Examples of recorded social value during 2018 include: * DWF launched the DWF Foundation in November 2015 and they have given over £224K to 99 charities * From April 2018 over 42,000 Places for People customers took part in involvement activities and over 1,000 people have been helped into work, training or volunteering. Customers have saved £342,000 by accessing affordable loans and energy efficiency measures, installed between April and September, saving £85,000 on fuel bills. Frontline staff have logged details of 2,500 activities since April, designed to help customers * One Manchester saved its housing customers £1m, invested £300,000 in community projects and created £6m-worth of social value through supporting people into employment, providing access to cultural and leisure activities to alleviate social isolation, providing training and work placements to residents, and investing over £50,000 to expand businesses and support market traders in its areas Matt Haworth, the co-founder of Impact and Reason Digital, said: > “We built Impact to sit at the heart of social value strategies for a range of > charities and businesses. It offers all data in one place, so companies can immediately > see the impact they are having. Ease of measurement allows the tool to empower > users, encourage companies to improve their social value and help socially inclined > staff assess their successes. “Impact started as a government funded project to > explore a better way to measure social value. Following considerable development > Impact boasts a team of social value experts who deliver our proven and feature- > rich tool, which has gained traction within a growing client base. It’s a constantly > evolving tool, developed in-house by our own developers, who frequently enhance > its functionality.” * **[Fever-Tree commits to £1 million three-year partnership with Malaria No More](https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/01/31/fever-tree-commits-1m-three-year-partnership-malaria-no/)**( 31 January 2019) * **[New Morrisons funding means CLIC Sargent can provide cash help if a child’s cancer return](https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/02/01/new-morrisons-funding-means-clic-sargent-provide-cash-help-childs-cancer-return/)**( 1 February 2019) * **[New energy company pledges to give share of business to charities](https://fundraising.co.uk/2019/03/27/new-energy-company-pledges-to-give-share-of-business-to-charities/)**( 27 March 2019) ![Loading](https://fundraising.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/page-views-count/ajax-loader- 2x.gif)