{"id":971,"date":"2025-05-15T12:47:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journal.matchmyproject.org\/?p=971"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:26:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:26:53","slug":"how-confident-do-you-feel-about-reaching-your-social-value-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.matchmyproject.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/15\/how-confident-do-you-feel-about-reaching-your-social-value-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Is your Social Value targeted and impactful?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/journal.matchmyproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/vusala-abdullayeva-25El6bk5v5U-unsplash-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-972\" srcset=\"https:\/\/journal.matchmyproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/vusala-abdullayeva-25El6bk5v5U-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/journal.matchmyproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/vusala-abdullayeva-25El6bk5v5U-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/journal.matchmyproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/vusala-abdullayeva-25El6bk5v5U-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/journal.matchmyproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/vusala-abdullayeva-25El6bk5v5U-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/journal.matchmyproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/vusala-abdullayeva-25El6bk5v5U-unsplash-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/journal.matchmyproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/vusala-abdullayeva-25El6bk5v5U-unsplash-1568x1045.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Are you delivering Social Value that is genuinely impactful?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Social Value is a great opportunity to strengthen local communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And local community organisations know what their communities need better than anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From our conversations with our public sector partners, we know they agree with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But so often Social Value feels untargeted \u2014 sometimes driven by what the supplier chooses to do, rather than led by the community. And, worst case scenario, it can be unverified.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How confident are you that the Social Value committed at tender stage \u2014 which feels ambitious and aspirational \u2014 is actually delivered, is actually felt in the community?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s a problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, based on our public sector partners, through our bi-monthly User Group, that we knew to design Match My Project to explicitly address these challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every authority we work with has the opportunity to configure its own Match My Project site to ensure:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"font-size:20px\">All community projects that receive resources are delivering against local place based outcomes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"font-size:20px\">Resources get to the type of community projects that are really going to benefit \u2014 larger charities with existing bid writing teams may, for example, not need extra resources as much as the smaller local organisations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:0px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li style=\"font-size:20px\">Resources get to projects in exactly the right place, geographically &#8211; does the southern part of the borough, or a particular estate need more support? You can do that on Match My Project.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:8px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#dae8ff\">See the platform in action \u2014 <strong>set up your <a href=\"https:\/\/matchmyproject.org\/authority-signup\">free demo account<\/a> in seconds.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-gray-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-43b7069614034f4c801e39377f59fc17\"><strong>Curious about the impact you could be making?<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/calendly.com\/bd-matchmyproject\/mmpintrocall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Let\u2019s talk<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:8px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>More from Match My Project:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udcc8 <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.matchmyproject.org\/index.php\/2025\/12\/19\/match-my-project-2025-wrapped\/\"><strong>2025 Wrapped<\/strong> \u2014 a look back at what we built together<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2728 <a href=\"http:\/\/Partners, not just funders: Linx Youth Project\u2019s first Match My Project success\"><strong>Success Story: Partners, not just funders \u2014 Linx Youth Project&#8217;s first match<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you delivering Social Value that is genuinely impactful? 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