The National Social Value Marketplace® gives public bodies the infrastructure to coordinate social value delivery between partners, suppliers, VCSE organisations, schools and local communities.
National reach.
Local impact.
Verified local organisations
ready to partner.
Connecting schools
with opportunity.
We have met the framework's supplier requirements, so you can procure with confidence
Pricing set out clearly through the framework
Contractual terms already in place
A streamlined process gets you to the tools sooner
For local authorities, NHS organisations, government departments and other eligible public bodies that need to plan, deliver, manage and evidence measurable social value outcomes.
Without whatimpact
With whatimpact
Procurement, grants, volunteering and your own programmes all bring resources into your communities.
But they are usually coordinated separately. whatimpact brings them into one connected community ecosystem.
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Offers, Map & Search and partnerships between suppliers, VCSEs and schools
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Supplier resources directed to identified local needs
At the centre
VCSEs03
Funding from application to evidenced outcomes
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Public-sector and supplier employees giving time and skills
Different resources. One community ecosystem.
One system connecting available resources with the organisations that turn them into impact.
In combined authorities and procurement consortia, councils join progressively and pick their own modules, with activity consolidated for wider oversight.
Councils A–D joining over time
Buy modules individually or combined. Start with what you need and add more over time.
Procure through a framework your teams already use.
Supply chain social value partnerships
More than a directory. Two complementary ways for suppliers to build the right partnerships.
Route A · Inbound
Outcome targets follow GOV Social Value Model, TOM System, TOM System Wales and more.
Route B · Outbound
Whichever route creates the partnership, it doesn't disappear into emails and spreadsheets. Your authority keeps visibility of activity and delivery throughout.
Matching and impact reporting can be linked to a contract number/s,
contracting authority and procurement framework.
Public-sector priority projects
Don't make every supplier invent another social value project.
You already know where support is needed.
1 · Publish
Councils, NHS organisations, housing associations and other public bodies set out each project's objectives, beneficiaries, resource needs and intended outcomes.
2 · Match
Suppliers find relevant projects and point their contractual social value at initiatives already responding to identified community needs.
3 · Evidence
Your team coordinates supplier engagement, then captures evidence of what was achieved.
Through offer-based matching or Map & Search
Promoted by the contracting authority
Your authority facilitates the ecosystem without manually brokering every relationship.
Community grant management
One process for funding. One evidence trail for outcomes.
Standalone module or part of the wider systemGrant management doesn't finish when the money is transferred.
For grant applicants
VCSEs and schools create profiles and projects that set out beneficiaries, local needs, proposed activities, resource requirements and outcome targets.
For your team
Applications, evaluation, due diligence and awards managed in one place, not through disconnected forms and spreadsheets.
After the award
Funded organisations complete standardised Social Impact Reports covering outputs, outcomes and wider impact, with case studies, testimonials and evidence. Funders see what their investment changed, and grantees gain evidence they can use too.
Volunteering management
Easier for people to contribute. Easier for you to manage.
Volunteering Hub: standalone or connected to the wider ecosystemPublish
VCSEs, schools and public-sector project managers publish volunteering opportunities.
Take part
Employees discover opportunities, express interest and offer their skills. Authorities run their own staff programmes and can open opportunities to suppliers and their employees.
Capture
Participation and activity are recorded systematically, giving you dashboards and evidence instead of emails and manual tracking.
Different resources. Different activities. One consistent evidence model.
Procurement, grants, volunteering and your own programmes all bring resources into your communities, but they are usually coordinated separately. whatimpact brings them into one connected community ecosystem.
Resources contributed
What was delivered
What changed
Wider effects
The lasting difference
Supported by case studies, testimonials, photographs and other evidence.
Built in collaboration with NCVO Evaluation Services
Based on internationally recognised impact measurement and reporting principles
Government Social Value Model, TOM System™, TOM System™ Wales and others
Monetised measures come with the qualitative evidence of what was actually achieved
Volunteering adds a layer
Alongside the same partnership-level reports, the Volunteering Hub captures:
So you see the overall community impact, and the participation and experience behind it.
Real-time visibility
Monitor activity and completed reports in real time. Because every module uses the same structured data, AI can consolidate it into periodic, programme-level and contract-based reports.
Evidence rolls up ↑
Built for individual authorities and multi-authority environments.
Individual council or public body
Track activity against your suppliers, contracts, projects and community partnerships.
So you see the overall community impact, and the participation and experience behind it.
Combined authority, procurement agency or consortium
Councils keep their own identity, priorities, suppliers and activity. Authorised regional or procurement teams see delivery across the whole programme. Authorities can join at different times and adopt different modules.
Local delivery remains local.
Wider visibility becomes possible.
Start with one module or connect all four.
Available through G-Cloud 15.