East Riding of Yorkshire Council has earned the Outstanding Impact award at the Institute of Economic Development (iED) Annual Awards 2025, for its sustained work empowering communities through social value.
The awards, hosted in Manchester on Tuesday 25 November, celebrates achievers in the public and private sector through a series of individual, team and organisational categories.
The Outstanding Impact accolade was awarded to East Riding of Yorkshire Council, due to it’s work on its co-created Social Value Engine.
The engine has been used to evidence outcomes, secure funding and champion social value across the council’s services.
It was successfully used in a pilot with the council’s culture services, and utilised with the evaluation of ‘Classically Yours’, a collaborative project between the Council’s arts team and national partner Orchestras Live. It showed that the project provided £8.73 of social value for every £1 invested.
The award panel cited the pilot as one of the most 'outstanding outcomes' of the initiative.
Councillor Anne Handley, East Riding of Yorkshire Council leader said:
“It’s fantastic that the Social Value Engine has been recognised for its outstanding impact in delivering benefits to the community, and we congratulate the team for their hard work in rolling it out across council services.”
iED Director and former Chair Bev Hurley CBE, who hosted the awards honouring achievements across the public and private sectors, said: “Our judges praised this as a pioneering approach to embedding social value across cultural services. The Social Value Engine has driven measurable impact, achieved sector-wide adoption, and sparked a cultural shift in how public value is understood and delivered.
They highlighted East Riding’s work as transformative, noting that its approach to social value has reshaped internal culture, strengthened external partnerships, and set a national benchmark in impact measurement, delivering tangible benefits to the community.”
More information about the Social Value Engine can be found at - https://socialvalueengine.com/
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