Social Impact in Practice – Social Audit Network EVALUATION FEEDBACK

1Conference Organisation

Please indicate with a tick or mark what you thought of the SAN Conference organisation

Very good / Good / Satisfactory / Fair / Poor
Pre-conference information and administration / 17 / 17 / 3 / 1
On the day organisation / 29 / 8 / 1
Lunch/catering / 24 / 13
Conferencevenue / 32 / 4

2World Café Conversations

Please indicate how useful you found each of the topics

Extremely / Very / Quite / Slightly / Not
Measuring or accounting for social value / 10 / 8 / 1
Public procurement: the value of social impact information / 8 / 7 / 1
Power within communities – where does the accountability lie? / 7 / 5 / 7
Social change beyond the economic / 6 / 9 / 2

3Main Plenary Speakers

Please indicate with a tick what you thought of the plenary speakers

Very good / Good / Satisfactory / Fair / Poor
Luciana Berger–MP / 7 / 14 / 12 / 2 / 2
Caroline Mason–Big Society Capital / 13 / 19 / 5 / 1
Alan Kay–Social Audit Network / 15 / 14 / 3 / 1

4Social Impact & Delivery of Public Services

Please indicate how useful you found the panel discussion

Extremely / Very / Quite / Slightly / Not
14 / 16 / 5

5Participatory Workshops

Please indicate how useful you found this session

Extremely / Very / Quite / Slightly / Not
Consultation tools and techniques – innovative methodologies / 4 / 3 / 2
Analysing information from social reports / 1 / 1
Financialisation and social accounting / 3 / 4
Audit as part of performance management - an auditors tale / 1 / 4 / 1
Starting small: social accounting and audit for all / 4 / 6 / 1 / 1 / 1

6SAN Memorial Lecture

Please indicate with a tick what you thought of the summary impressions…

Very good / Good / Satisfactory / Fair / Poor
20 / 6 / 2

7Impressions of the day

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Very good / Good / Satisfactory / Fair / Poor
22 / 12 / 1

8Overall which elements of the conference were most useful to you?

‘World Café and participatory workshop.’
‘Rekindling my enthusiasm for the process and meeting new people. Introducing them to SAA.’
‘All’.
‘All aspects enabled thinking’.
‘Great!’
‘The world café conversations were really interesting but the feedback was very limited. Could the facilitators note the feedback please?’
‘Participatory workshop and final speech’.
‘The opportunity to network with other attendees and contribute to general discussion.’
‘Consideration of what social accounting includes.’
‘Overall the conference helped to clarify what social audit is about, links to SROI and how a social audit can be delivered in my organisation.’
‘ A good grounding in social accounting and audit with plenty of useful discussion and advice that I can take back to business. Interesting lecture and useful workshop.’
‘Finding out that maybe social accounting isn’t that big of a step into the unknown for my own organisation.’
‘Exchange of ideas and networking.’
‘General quality of information was good and relevant.’
‘The opportunity to discuss the wider context in which the need to account for social activity resides. Also meeting like-minded people and also people from the same + different stages of the social audit journey.’
‘Unpicking the nation of social impact and social value.’
‘Meeting people from different organisations and sectors- hearing examples of how they have implemented SA.’
‘Networking opportunities. Learning what is happening in sector now.’
‘Networking. An extremely good introduction to the topic.’
‘Everything was fantastic. Really interesting and friendly.’
‘Tools and techniques. The interactive session was a great idea to start the day.’
‘Most of the basic material.’
‘All.’
‘Matthew Lanham put me in touch with people and really advocates for social auditing. Workshop with Mary and Iftikar was very good too.’
‘World Café.’
Workshop and talks.’
‘ Refreshing overall. Most useful elements listening to speakers and invariably the networking- good to catch up.’

9Do you have any other comments about the SAN Conference?

‘Publicise it massively on website and newsletter asap.’
‘No.’
‘2 days next time?’
‘Thank you!’
‘Well organised, relaxed atmosphere, incredible learning enhanced overall positive experience.’
‘Strong discussions on both SAN and SROI.’
‘Very insightful, ideas and concepts covered. That prior to the conference I was unaware of.’
‘Enjoyable day, well organised, good venue and job done.’
‘Thoroughly enjoyed the day- Thank you!’
‘As a learning experience (for someone who knows very little about SAA) it maybe wasn’t as focused as it could be.’
‘Excellent venue- staff of the venue helpful and welcoming.’
‘Access to hand outs or PPP’s would have been useful.’
‘Excellent day! Early icebreaker and later summary notes are how all conferences should be run. Combat early morning grogginess and engage and stimulate conversation and debate (and networking) early!’
‘Enjoyable! Dietary needs catered for… Thank you!’
‘ Gave a level overview. Picked up insightful info/ideas from others. Reminded me to look at Big Society Capital.’
‘Be useful to know if info given is UK wider or England only e.g. Big Society Capital’… Otherwise excellent event!’
‘Great to hear from different sectors and perspectives.’
‘Can you organise a national social impact conference for all interested in sector?’
‘Thank you for inviting me- I was so pleased to be involved in your day (Adam).’
‘Is it possible to send round notes from each of the participatory workshops?’
‘As someone at the beginning of a journey, it was helpful, although wasn’t quite sure which afternoon workshop to go to, so went to starting small.’
‘Thanks.’
‘Well done!’
‘It was wonderful as a masters student to have a free place. I would definitely recommend for others to attend.’
‘Well organised, stimulating content, delivered through a variety of different approaches which made it a most entertaining day.’
‘A great event in a great place!’