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SO WHAT!
The importance of your vision,
mission, objectives and values.
Social Audit Network
Introductions
• Anne Lythgoe
• Dave Furze - Footprints
You Introduce Yourselves
In Groups
 Share who you are – something about
yourself/organisation in one sentence
• What is your level of previous involvement
in Social Accounting and Audit, SAA
(on a scale 1 to 5)
Feedback
Vision, Mission, Objectives
Values and Activities- VMOVA
What the delegates will be learning:
1. VMOVA is fundamental to social audit
- a foundation stone
2. About the tools that are available on the DVD
and in the guide
3. The benefits of doing it anyway – so what?
Assumption:
• little prior knowledge of this area, or the
details of social accounting and audit
Vision, Mission, Objectives
Values and Activities- VMOVA
Vision, Mission, Objectives
Values and Activities- VMOVA
• Section 1 - SO WHAT is your real purpose
Vision, Mission, Objectives
Values and Activities- VMOVA
Vision, Mission, Objectives, Values and Activities
… at the heart of social accounting…
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Vision – long term aspiration
Mission – what we are here to do
Objectives – what we set out to do
Values – how we will go about doing this
Activities – what you do
Social accounting – how we know whether we are
achieving what we set out to do – the right things, with
the right people, in the right way… to achieve our long
term goals…
Vision, Mission, Objectives
Values and Activities- VMOVA
Taking an Outcomes Approach
Charities Evaluation Service
www.ces-vol.org.uk
Big Lottery
http://www.biglotteryfund.org.uk/funding/fundingguidance/applying-for-funding/aims-and-outcomes
Barrett Values Centre
www.valuescentre.com
Mapping Outcomes for Social Investment – NPC, Bond
http://www.thinknpc.org/publications/mappingoutcomes-for-social-investment/
Vision, Mission, Objectives
Values and Activities- VMOVA
Using the tools available on the PIA DVD and guide
CD7 – Glossary of terms
CD15 & CD9 – VMVOA
CD16 – Objectives
CD20 – Values
CD17 – Impact mapping
Cd21 & CD26 – Collating it all together
Benefits
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Values and Activities- VMOVA
“In effect, outputs demonstrate that activities
are taking place which achieve the objectives
and produce the outcomes which, in turn, cause
impacts which show that the mission is being
achieved.”
Vision, Mission, Objectives
Values and Activities- VMOVA
Benefits – So What….
• Foundation Stone for social audit and
accounts
• Good to review VMOVA regularly
• Good to involve stakeholders in your review
Vision, Mission, Objectives
Values and Activities- VMOVA
Discuss in your group of three:
• Qu 1 What you or your organisation currently
does in terms of agreeing VMOVA?
• Qu 2 What process is used to do this?
• Qu 3 How do you use your VMOVA?
Feedback
Vision, Mission, Objectives
and Values - VMOV
Vision, Mission, Objectives, Values and Activities
… at the heart of social accounting…
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Vision – long term aspiration
Mission – what we are here to do
Objectives – what we set out to do
Values – how we will go about doing this
Activities – what you do
Social accounting – how we know whether we are
achieving what we set out to do – the right things, with
the right people, in the right way… to achieve our long
term goals…
Vision, Mission, Objectives
Values and Activities- VMOVA
Vision, Mission, Objectives and Values…
ACTIVITIES, OUTCOMES and IMPACT
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Linking it all together
Golden threads and audit trails
Identifying indicators
Activities – what you do
Social accounting plan
Vision, Mission, Objectives
Values and Activities- VMOVA
Drafting the social accounts:
• Statement of VMOVA
• Explanation of how these have been delivered
and assessed
• Stakeholder analysis
• Performance and impact
• Key findings, conclusions and
recommendations
Vision, Mission, Objectives
Values and Activities- VMOVA
Using the social accounts:
• Proving – to ourselves, to stakeholders, for
tenders, marketing…
• Improving – performance and impact,
business planning, stopping ‘mission drift’…
• Accounting – collecting and reporting ‘social
value’ information in a systematic way, being
‘accountable’ for what you do…
Vision, Mission, Objectives
Values and Activities- VMOVA
Discuss in your group of three:
• Qu 4 What barriers or challenges do / would you
face in identifying your VMOVA?
• Qu 5 Where could you get help?
• Qu 6 How could you use VMOVA?
Feedback
Vision, Mission, Objectives
Values and Activities- VMOVA
Other information:
Case Studies:
• http://www.socialauditnetwork.org.uk/learn-more/case-studies/
• http://www.socialauditnetwork.org.uk/learn-more/social-impactcase-studies/
(see in particular Unlimited Potential)
Discussion Papers:
• http://www.socialauditnetwork.org.uk/files/9513/2221/7056/Discu
ssion_Paper_on_Mission_Values_Objectives_and_Activities.pdf
• http://www.socialauditnetwork.org.uk/files/9713/2221/6970/Pape
r_on_Sample_Values.pdf
Sample social accounts:
• http://www.socialauditnetwork.org.uk/files/8713/2136/1687/upda
teddirectoryofsocialaccounts-090508.pdf
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and Values - VMOV
Other information:
SAN VMOVA:
• http://www.socialauditnetwork.org.uk/about-us/mission-valuesobjectives/
• http://www.socialauditnetwork.org.uk/about-us/our-social-accounts/
Other VMOVA:
• http://www.voluntaryactionscotland.org.uk/pdf/Common_Services_Octob
er_2012.pdf
• http://www.se2partnership.co.uk/who-are-se2.asp?p=130
• http://www.derbyhomes.org/about-us/mission-objectives-values
Business planning:
• http://socialenterprise.org.uk/uploads/editor/files/Events/Business_plann
ing_workshop.pdf
• http://www.sel.org.uk/uploads/New_BusPlanGuide.pdf
• http://www.thekeyfund.co.uk/upload/file/key_fund_business_plan.pdf
Vision, Mission, Objectives
and Values - VMOV
Other support:
• SAN website www.socialauditnetwork.org.uk
• Support organisations
www.socialenterprise.org.uk
• SAN regional co-ordinators and supporters
• Organisations local to you
Thank you
Anne Lythgoe
Email: [email protected]
Dave Furze, Footprints
Tel: 07803 897135 Email: [email protected]
http://www.socialauditnetwork.org.uk/