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Announcing this years winners - SVA25

We are thrilled to celebrate the winners of this year’s Social Value Awards, recognising the exceptional organisations and individuals who are making a meaningful difference in their communities and beyond. This year’s finalists showcased remarkable innovation, collaboration, and commitment to delivering lasting social impact, and we are proud to honour their achievements.

Thank you to everyone who attended the awards ceremony at the EastSide Rooms in Birmingham—it was an inspiring evening filled with celebration, connection, and shared purpose.

Keep an eye out for updates on the 2026 Social Value Awards, including details on when submissions will open. We look forward to seeing even more incredible work and welcoming new entries next year.

Check out the winners for each category below.

Social Value Champion Award

For an individual in any sector who is leading the way in delivering the Social Value Economy through their own work or the work they are doing within their organisation. This will include making Social Value core, being accountable, creating capability and demonstrating how they have collaborated across multiple stakeholder groups to achieve this.

The nominees are:

  • Siarah Meah, Clarion Housing Group

  • Yeshua Carter, EY - HIGHLY COMMENDED

  • Grace-Anne Stephenson, Arriva Rail London

  • Sarah Hopkinson, Equans UK & Ireland

  • Olivia Sutcliffe, Young Professionals in Social Value

  • Bob Edwards, GXO Logistics - WINNER

  • Dr Elizabeth Newman Earl, e50K

Public Sector Leadership Award

For a public sector organisation that has made a significant contribution to the Social Value Economy through how it is delivering its services. The judges will be looking for innovative approaches to solving the challenges being faced through Social Value. Leadership may be evident across the organisation as a whole or within a particular part.

The nominees are:

  • L&Q Major Works Investment Programme - WINNER

  • Lichfield District Council

  • STAR Procurement

  • Manchester City Council Highways Service - HIGHLY COMMENDED

  • LHC Procurement Group

  • Glasgow City Region Community Benefits Hub

  • North London Waste Authority

Private Sector Leadership Award

For a private sector organisation that has made a significant contribution to the Social Value Economy through how it is delivering its services. The judges will be looking for innovative approaches to solving the challenges being faced. Leadership may be evident across the organisation as a whole or within a particular part.

The nominees are:

  • Wates Group

  • Serco - HIGHLY COMMENDED

  • Dunsters Farm Ltd

  • Jeff Way Group

  • Roche

  • Hill Group

  • Avanti West Coast - WINNER

SME and VCSE Leadership Award

For a small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) or a voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) organisation that is making a significant contribution to the Social Value Economy through what they do and how they are working. In addition, the judges will be examining how this nominee has made a notable impact on the needs of the communities where they operate.

The nominees are:

  • Breadwinners
  • Cwtch Mawr
  • Clarion Futures
  • Intervention Architecture - HIGHLY COMMENDED
  • Standing Tall - WINNER
  • Harwich Haven Authority
  • Huyton Travel

Making Core Award

The first step along the journey of delivering a Social Value Economy is for organisations to embrace and then ‘make core’ the principles behind said Economy. This award is looking for organisations that have made a notable shift in their culture and a discernible change in their governance that supports transformation. Examples may include how a business has adapted its ESG strategy to embrace Social Value, how a voluntary organisation has successfully adapted to meet the requirements of the Social Value Act, or how a buyer has overcome significant internal challenges to deliver Social Value.

The nominees are:

  • Compass One
  • Clarion Housing Group
  • Speedy Hire - WINNER
  • Balfour Beatty
  • Willmott Dixon - HIGHLY COMMENDED
  • Bailey Partnership
  • KEVIAT & AIP (Part of Sodexo)

Accountability and Reporting Award

For any organisation that is going one step further in holding itself accountable to its key stakeholders, including how it has engaged and communicated with local communities.

The nominees are:

  • Severn Trent - WINNER
  • Sovereign Network Group
  • Vita Health Group
  • E.ON
  • Wates Residential
  • Serco - HIGHLY COMMENDED
  • Sanderson Weatherall
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Creating Capability Award

An award that recognises the contribution that an organisation has made in building knowledge and capability to deliver the Social Value Economy. The award is looking specifically at how an organisation is supporting the upskilling of its own internal teams and secondly, how they are engaging with and building capability across their supply chains. The contributions will be judged on both their innovation and also breadth and depth of impact and may be through a learning management system, or through better supply chain engagement or even the development of a knowledge hub. 

The nominees are:

  • Compass One
  • Essex County Council
  • Salford City Council - HIGHLY COMMENDED
  • E.ON Next UK - WINNER
  • Department for Business and Trade 
  • Morgan Sindall Property Services
  • STAR Procurement

Radical Collaboration Award

This award recognises the importance of collaboration to deliver the Social Value Economy. It will be awarded to an organisation or cross-sector team that has delivered an amazing Social Value outcome or innovation through the power of radical collaboration. This may be through a project, technology, or innovation or even a networking group.

The nominees are:

  • Equans UK & Ireland - WINNER
  • Severn Trent
  • Startup Sherpas
  • Forests with Impact
  • Salford City Council - HIGHLY COMMENDED
  • Sexual Abuse Forensic Examination Centre Garden
  • ECG & Savills

Enabling Technology Award

This award will be given to an enabling technology, business system or process that has been designed to enable the successful delivery of a Social Value Economy. Judges will be looking for a clear description and evidence of how the enabling technology addressed or proposes to address a market failure, as well as evidence of the outcome delivered.

The nominees are:

  • London Borough of Harrow
  • Match My Project
  • Glasgow City Region
  • Wowment Ltd - WINNER
  • BERRI
  • Digital Boost - HIGHLY COMMENDED
  • whatimpact

Excellence in Real Estate and Planning Award

This a collaboration award for a real estate or planning team, including developers, professional services teams, contractors, and property managers, that has demonstrated the extra steps required to embed the principles of Social Value into the design, construction and occupation of a building or masterplan. The award covers any phase of a project, from inception to re-use. It may be still on the drawing board or completed, but will need to show clear evidence that consideration of Social Value has impacted decision-making and outcomes. This might include how community engagement has impacted project design, how specification and procurement has helped build the local economy,  or how a building management team has helped unlock value for communities during occupation.

The nominees are: 

  • The Bullring Wellbeing Hub
  • London Cancer Hub
  • 105 Victoria Street - WINNER
  • Savills Earth and Salford Community and Voluntary Services - HIGHLY COMMENDED
  • Hepworth Place
  • The Building Your Future Hub 

 

Global Excellence in Social Value Award

This award recognises organisations that have demonstrated exceptional innovation and commitment to social value across international contexts. The award celebrates initiatives that bridge the gap by standardising social value reporting or that create breakthrough innovations benefitting global communities through social impact.

The nominees are:

  • Aramark
  • Nan Fung - HIGHLY COMMENDED
  • ISS
  • Ventia - WINNER
  • BTTC

Rising Star in Social Value Award

For a young professional aged 35 or under who is actively driving the Social Value movement forward. This individual is a catalyst for change—championing social value through their own work or by influencing their organisation and wider networks. They are embedding social value as a core principle, demonstrating accountability, building capability, and fostering meaningful collaboration across diverse stakeholder groups. Their leadership, innovation, and commitment are helping to shape a more inclusive and impactful Social Value Economy.

The nominees are:

  • Zach Beckett, Capita
  • Lauren Kelly, Equans UK & Ireland
  • Jared Freeman, LDC
  • Lauren Kennett,  Hill Group UK
  • Nichola McAvoy, Compass Group UK & Ireland
  • Sasha Simmonds, Wates Construction - WINNER
  • Nathan Spencer, UKREiiF - HIGHLY COMMENDED
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