Building resilient island communities: harnessing social value for sustainable investment

Islands are small, unique, and often overlooked. They face unique challenges that are not always understood by mainland governments.

This webinar will explore how islands can utilise and maximise social value to improve the resilience of their communities.

Join us for a collaborative learning experience that will cover:

• Ways to address the unique challenges that islands face, now and in the (not too distant) future
• Island Communities Impact Assessment (ICIA) and its significance for social value assessment
• Understanding and increasing social return on investment (SROI) with the Social Value Engine
• Best practices for creating partnerships and collaboration, using the lessons learned and a case study from North Ronaldsay

Agenda:

1. Understanding resilience in island communities – Anna Whelan, Burton Whelan/Rose Regeneration
2. Valuing the invaluable: the importance of transparent social value and outcome sharing across the island community ecosystem, with a demo of the Social Value Engine – Maddie Kortenaar, Social Value Engine
3. Case study: North Ronaldsay – Luke Fraser, Aquatera/North Ronaldsay Trust
4. Getting started with social value – how to choose the proxies and outcomes that matter – Luke Fraser, Aquatera/North Ronaldsay Trust
5. Interactive Q&A session