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Introducing Social Value Top Trumps Workshop – Playing the game for good

Posted: February 13, 2025

🔥 Social Value is NOT just a numbers game. 🔥

But too often, impact measurement is reduced to tick-box exercises, stripping away the real meaning behind social change.

If you’re passionate about rethinking social value, curious about what this valuation stuff is all about, and want social value to be meaningful, you’re in luck – we’re taking our new workshop on the road!

About the Social Value Top Trumps workshop

Led by social value experts Catherine Manning and Matt Haworth from MeasureUp, this workshop offers a fresh approach to valuation. Through a series of hands-on exercises, we’ll introduce you to wellbeing in social value and help you compare impact meaningfully—even when values seem worlds apart.

What you’ll gain

🔎 New perspectives – Challenge the status quo and step away from tick-box exercises.

🃏 Deeper understanding of WELLBY – Play with MeasureUp, a free, game-changing tool designed to support valuing wellbeing as part of any social value strategy.

📊 Increase confidence in your impact – Learn how to robustly evidence your value claims, even when it feels like apples to oranges.

💡Innovation in impact measurement – Be part of ushering in a new, more meaningful framework for social impact.

Key topics we’ll cover:

✅ What wellbeing really means in social value
✅ Why social and environmental valuation matters
✅ How to evidence impact robustly
✅ Practical steps to start using MeasureUp today

Who should attend?

This workshop is ideal for:

Workshop details:

📍 Duration: 2 hours
👥 Capacity: 30 participants max, host manages invitations.
🖥️ Format: Available in-person (venue must allow for five breakout areas) or online.
🎲 Bonus: Includes a MeasureUp Top Trumps card game pack.
💰 Cost: £1,000 for private sector; £600 for anyone in third sector or trade associations
(plus VAT and any travel costs).

If you’d like to learn more about wellbeing, whether for yourself, your team, or partners, online or in-person, please complete the short expression of interest form and we will be in touch.

Expression of interest – Top Trumps Workshop

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