Deliver insightful research
We deliver inclusive, accessible, workable evidence, which is essential to demonstrate impact and understand how to improve it.
About Bean
When it comes to understanding and growing your social value, we’ve Bean there, done that, and had an impact.
Find out more about our experienced team, our inclusive approach, and the credentials behind our confidence.
Bean’s value-driven approach
Across all our work with charities, funders, and companies, we've got three big aims:
Increase your ability to create social change
We help you develop in-house approaches, policies, and capabilities to facilitate real change, now and in the future.
Advocate, teach, and share best practice
We are passionate about social value and spend time sharing ways people can understand, evaluate, and report on social change.
The Bean team
We're a small team with a global reach - our heritage and experience spans the globe.
Charlotte Turner
Director
Charlotte is a researcher with 30 years of experience in this space, a regular speaker and adviser on social impact and value, the Founder & Director of Bean Research, the Social Impact Assessment lead at Cranfield School of Management and an Advanced Social Value Practitioner.
Arani Mylvaganam
Senior Evaluation Manager
Arani is an experienced and curious research and evaluation practitioner with a decade and a half of experience delivering evidence for causes that matter. Her clients include some of the UK’s largest charities and international Government departments. Arani is a trustee at SOFEA, an Oxfordshire based youth and sustainability charity.
Bethan Lloyd
Social Value Manager
Bethan brings expertise in sustainable strategy and social impact, with experience spanning procurement and social value initiatives for high-profile clients. Passionate about creating positive change, she’s an Accredited Social Value Practitioner and Steering Group Member for Young Professionals in Social Value, dedicated to advancing impactful, community-focused solutions.
Cath Weight
Senior Research Manager
Cath Weight has worked with Bean Research since 2019. She has 20 years of experience immersed in the development and execution of consumer and business intelligence, both agency and client side. Cath provides the backbone of our work with funders – supporting foundations to understand how they can fund and support greater social change.
Inclusive in every way
Inclusivity isn’t a buzzword for Bean – it’s a core principle that we hang our hats on.
Co-produced, equitable research
We go the extra mile to conduct robust research and always stick to the government’s inclusive social research guidelines. That means understanding barriers and enablers, particularly when it comes to marginalised communities. We also:
- Work with our clients to ensure materials are accessible to their audiences.
- Are mindful of power dynamics in evaluation & funding and seek equity of voice.
- Set and stick to clear interview and survey expectations.
- Co-produce Frameworks & Share findings with participants ahead of any ‘release’.
- Use Plain English in our reports and avoid stereotypes.
- Use neurodiversity-friendly typefaces and incorporate text-to-speech.
- Undertake unconscious bias training to keep our language and personal biases in check.
Responsible business practices
We take our business responsibilities seriously, striving to have a positive impact just like our clients. Social Impact is embedded in our Articles of Association. Here are the organisations Bean is part of and the standards we aim to meet:
We’re organisational members and partners of Institute of Social Value – Britain’s professional body for social value and impact management.
We are all members of the Market Research Society, demonstrating our commitment to generating high-quality evidence and the insight that comes from it.
We’re members and partners of Anthropy, an organisation that empowers leaders to shape Britain’s future.
We are a Disability Confident Committed employer. We support accessibility for employees, clients and their service users in every way. We also support Dyslexic Thinking.
We’re signatories of the Better Business Act, the Mental Health at Work commitment and are a Living Wage Employer.
