National Social Value Marketplace
Matching government suppliers with local charities, voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisations.
For lasting social, environmental, and economic impact across the UK.
An open-access platform with premium features designed to empower efficient cross-sector collaboration for the benefit of people, planet, and communities.
National Social Value Marketplace
Discover your ideal partners for social value delivery with our hyper-local matching platform. Sign up for free and leverage advanced filters to fast-track your matches. Create tailored partnership offers and invite VCSEs to collaborate seamlessly. Start matching smarter today!
Register your profile to unlock advanced map and filtering tools for tailored connections and insights.
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Social Value
Explained
Social Value is an increasingly key element of UK Government/Public Sector tenders, highlighting the additional social, environmental, and economic benefits suppliers must deliver through their contracts.
Social Value plans are essential for winning government contracts, often contributing 10-30% of the overall tender evaluation.
VCSEs play a vital role in helping public sector suppliers meet their Social Value requirements.
By matching and partnering with VCSEs, public sector suppliers can effectively address local employment, environmental challenges, and community needs, ensuring their projects are additional and both locally relevant and impactful.
For Public Sector
Partners with whatimpact, local and central government bodies, procurement agencies, and housing associations, will maximise social value across their tenders and frameworks.
whatimpact provides suppliers with essential tools, including valuable insights, social value training, and seamless connections to relevant VCSE partners, all in one platform and free of charge.
Government suppliers
whatimpact empowers government suppliers to deliver locally relevant, tangible social value by connecting them with verified VCSEs experienced in tackling social and environmental challenges. Suppliers can seamlessly match with trusted VCSE partners, access validated social value impact reports, and manage social value activities efficiently and effectively. Our platform offers open access to powerful matchmaking tools, with affordable subscriptions available for enhanced features.
For VCSEs
whatimpact enables VCSEs to connect with new private sector companies, showcase their projects, and access vital resources, all for free.
With whatimpact matching, VCSEs can effortlessly track and report on project outcomes using a robust, user-friendly reporting tool, helping them secure unrestricted grant funding tied to their impact reports.
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Ways Of Matching
Interactive Map
Visualised VCSEs on an intuitive map for precise, hyper-local matching.
Advanced Filtering
Streamlined search using tender-specific criteria, such as beneficiaries, causes, and geographical reach.
VCSE Partnership Offers
Discover VCSEs actively seeking partnerships, offering funding, products, services, skills, and commercial opportunities.
Resource Needs
Connect directly with VCSEs based on their real-time project needs — from skills and services to products and funding — for highly relevant, impact-driven partnership opportunities.
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Managing matches and social value deliverables
Verified Matches with Direct Contact Channel
Contract-winning suppliers can verify and coordinate partnerships directly on the platform, available through low-cost monthly or annual subscriptions.
whatimpact VCSE Data
Our powerful matchmaking platform leverages verified VCSE data and advanced features to connect public sector suppliers with ideal VCSE partners.
The comprehensive data sources guarantee maximum transparency and trust for impactful partnerships.
Charity Commission
Access a comprehensive database of all registered charities in England, Wales, and Scotland, providing a full view of the charity sector and individual organisations.
Companies House
Verify social enterprises to ensure reliable, trusted partnerships with authenticated business information.
360Giving
Gain detailed insights into major grants received by VCSEs in recent years, offering a clear overview of their funding history.
Unregistered Community Groups
Unregistered Community Groups can showcase their governance models, official declarations, and trustees, ensuring transparency and credibility.
VCSE Self-Reporting
VCSEs submit detailed information on their organisation, projects, financials, and impact, offering unique, transparent insights not available elsewhere.
whatimpact Product Family
whatimpact | market
whatimpact’s National Social Value Marketplace connects businesses, government bodies, and VCSEs through an intuitive matchmaking platform. With open-access and premium features, it streamlines cross-sector collaboration to deliver measurable social, environmental, and community impact. Perfect for organisations seeking to maximise their social value contributions.
whatimpact | volunteer
A user-friendly, low-cost tool that enables companies to manage contract-specific volunteering opportunities. Employees can easily track their volunteering hours and share experiences, directly supporting the company’s social value targets. Ideal for HR and CSR teams aiming to boost employee engagement while meeting social value objectives.
whatimpact | grant
whatimpact’s marketplace simplifies the grant-matching process by connecting companies with relevant opportunities. The integrated dashboard allows grant committees to score applications and assess both qualitative and quantitative impacts, all in one place.
whatimpact | cockpit
Cockpit is a smart, API-powered dashboard that enables social value managers to track regional and contract-specific performance in real-time. It consolidates KPIs, outcomes, and impacts from multiple contracts and regions into one central view.
whatimpact Product Family
whatimpact | cockpit
Cockpit for Procurement
Our Cockpit for Procurement helps procurement teams evaluate and score supplier social value plans using a single dashboard. Suppliers can easily report KPIs and partnership impacts per contract, with all data centralised for streamlined reporting.
whatimpact | grant
Cockpit for Grant Management
Cockpit for Grant Management streamlines grant matching and evaluation for public sector organisations. It centralises both qualitative and quantitative impact reports, with AI analysis to assess the effectiveness of each grant, enabling data-driven decisions.
Public Sector Partnerships
whatimpact’s National Social Value Marketplace enables public sector organisations and their procurement agencies to drive impactful VCSE engagement within specific regions and industry sectors on the whatimpact.com platform.
Our mission is to help suppliers bidding for tenders and managing contracts maximise social value, prioritising efficiency, seamless implementation, and meaningful community engagement at the grassroots level.
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