SVI launches a public consultation on the Standards for Applying the Principles of Social Value and opens applications for its new Standards Committee.

As hosts of the True & Fair Project, SVI has published a guide to support UK company directors to integrate sustainability information into their financial statements, in order for them to give a true and fair view.

SVI has been working with its member networks and communities of practice to produce a response to the IFVI’s public consultation on its ‘General Methodology 2: Impact Measurement and Valuation Techniques’.

Social Value International aims to radically transform the way the world accounts for value. Having witnessed the power of collaboration for meaningful change, CEO Ben Carpenter shares 10 reasons for being optimistic in 2025.

Expanding Our Impact: Social Value International Welcomes Three New Team Members

A new economic model which includes the SDGs: Stakeholder Capitalism

Capitals Coalition and Social Value International (SVI) are delighted to announce a new strategic partnership to co-deliver the "Natural Capital for Business Decision-making – on the path to nature positive and net zero" Train-the-Trainer course.

Wendy Braeken has made it to the pinnacle of SVI’s Professional Pathway, joining the elite ranks of Advanced Practitioners worldwide. Learn about her impactful work, collaborations, and why gaining accreditation and being part this global community matters so much to her.

Social Value Thailand has become our newest Assurance Centre and now offers the Level 1 Social Value and Impact Management Exam. This initiative empowers changemakers and organizations and caters to the rising demand for social value, SROI, and impact management expertise in Thailand.

SVI has contributed an input paper to The Impact Taskforce’s new report to the G7. It identifies key developments and collective progress towards an accounting system for wellbeing and proposes a consortium approach to bring a harmonized system into existence.

SVI benefits enormously from the depth of experience, diversity and range of expertise represented on its Board of Trustees. In Catherine Manning, we have a movement builder who is equally at home discussing methodology with international peers as she is advising government on social value policy.

SVI benefits enormously from the depth of experience, diversity and range of expertise represented on its Board of Trustees. In Isabelle Parsram, we have a CEO, barrister and political operator keen to share knowhow and strengthen ties between member networks around the world.

SVI and Capitals Coalition have consulted with their members and jointly formulated a response to an important consultation on the International Standard on Sustainability Assurance. Find out more and make your voice heard.

To celebrate the relaunch of Social Value India, we interviewed the co-founders about the plans, priorities and opportunities for our affiliate network in the world’s most populous country.

We’re thrilled to share Social Value International’s SVI Glossary 2.0, which has been thoroughly updated from the original 2012 version.

It comprises both a short ‘Glossary of Key Terms’ written for anyone starting to engage with social value and SVI’s work, as well as a more comprehensive ‘Technical Glossary’ for Social Value practitioners.

In the third blog in the Materiality Files, Ben Carpenter and Jeremy Nicholls illustrate how a small but necessary evolution to the purpose of financial reporting is the real key to transforming capitalism and creating a more sustainable world.

It’s a solution that’s beautiful in its simplicity.

In the second installment of The Materiality Files, Ben Carpenter and Jeremy Nicholls explore how the concept of materiality is actually applied in financial accounting and reveal why sustainability accounting and impact management have (generally) not followed the same logic or approach. But what would it look like if sustainability accounting was more analogous to financial accounting?